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Loss of 5-HT transporter (SERT) sites has been implicated in various neurodegenerative diseases and users of some amphetamine derivatives such as MDMA. Therefore, the development of suitable radioligands for neuroimaging of the SERT in the human brain is important. A large number of drugs have been labeled with 11C, 18…

A written document was developed to clarify the District's adult mosquito-management tactics to other interested individuals and agencies. The program described consists of 7 discrete components: 1) initiation criteria, 2) treatment area delineation, 3) agricultural and land-use practices, 4) meteorological conditions,…

A total of 24 cases of metastatic bone tumours were encountered over the last 6 years. Majority of these lesions (70.8%) were found in the 4th to 6th decades of life with a slight male preponderance. The axial skeleton was involved in majority of the cases (62.5%), the spine being the commonest site of tumour metastasi…

We studied the histories of patients who had visited our Department during the last 5 years, presenting food allergy with exclusively respiratory symptoms (18.5%). We studied the correlation between IgE levels and the histamine release test and the type of food implicated. Seventy-seven percent of patients presented se…

837 neonates required mechanical ventilation at the Neonatal Intensive Unit in the last five years. 136 of them developed tension pneumothorax. Authors report our experience in these patients, who underwent next protocol: 1. Early diagnosis. 2. Underwater-seal drainage. 3. Suction drainage. 4. Selective intubation of c…

The medical and psychiatric diagnoses of 168 clients aged 16 to 65 years in a Norwegian institution for the mentally retarded were registered together with medication, level of functioning, and types of problem behavior. Most of these clients (64.9%) were profoundly or deeply retarded, and only 6.5% were independent of…

Surveillance activities in Italy during the last 5 years can be summarized in three broad categories: collection of data in order to describe the epidemiological pattern of hospital acquired infections, achieved through multicenter studies, involving hospitals or focused on specialized units; organizational efforts for…

Bilateral corneal endothelial photomicrographs of 90 cases, who underwent unilateral cataract extraction 5 years ago, were analyzed utilizing a specular microscopy and a graph pen digitizer. Data on surface areas of the corneal endothelium in each group of three different surgical procedures were compared mutually and…

Severe mitral insufficiency following myocardial infarction in 15 patients is reported. The mean interval from infarction to surgery was 2.8 years. All patients were operated on with mitral valve replacement and in 14 aortocoronary bypass and/or resection of left ventricular aneurysm was necessary as well. Rupture of o…

Stapedius reflex level, slow auditory evoked potential (AEP), and hearing threshold level of 18 normal adult probands (11 female, 7 male) as well as of 14 normal hearing cerebral palsied children between 4 and 12 years of age (5 female, 9 males)--were determined in different postures which correspond to the influence o…

BACKGROUND: The authors report observed 10-year brachytherapy results in the treatment of 152 consecutive patients with clinically organ-confined prostate carcinoma. METHODS: One hundred and fifty-two consecutive patients with T1-T3, low to high Gleason grade, prostate carcinoma were treated between January 1987 and J…

All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are an ongoing source of orthopaedic trauma in the United States. The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS) database was queried for ATV-related extremity trauma from 2010 to 2019. An estimated 31,979 ATV-related injuries present to emergency departments annually without sig…

Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in the UK, with over 37,500 people being diagnosed every year. Survival rates for CRC have doubled in the last 30 years and it is now curable if diagnosed early, but still over half of all sufferers do not survive for longer than 5 years after diagnosis. The major…

A retrospective study of 120 cases of acute polyradiculoneuropathy hospitalized in the National Institute of Neurology, since 1974. We analysed the clinical and neurophysiological pictures, the course of the disease and the prognosis. All ages and sex were affected. The mean age of onset was 34 years. There were a pred…

The purpose of this study was to identify early predictors of seizure remission in occipital lobe epilepsy irrespective of syndrome classification i.e. idiopathic or symptomatic occipital lobe epilepsy. Forty-three children with occipital lobe epilepsy had taken part in an earlier study of seizure semiology, neurologic…

Macrolide resistance trends were examined among Helicobacter pylori strains from 154 patients between 1994 and 1998. Applicabilities of screening agar method (SAM) and modified disk diffusion method (MDDM) were evaluated. Overall primary resistance rates to erythromycin and clarithromycin were 14.8% and 8.7%, respectiv…

The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital has developed a culture around the Accreditation process and quality assurance. All staff members are regularly challenged to ask themselves the question, 'What are we doing now that we could do better?' During the financial year 1990-91, over 350 quality assurance programmes we…

15 patients (10 men and 5 women) with myelodysplastic syndrome, treated in a Hematologic Clinic during the last three years, are studied. The patients are classified in the following groups: with a refractory anemia (4 patients), with an acquired idiopathic sideroblast anemia (3 patients), with a refractory anemia with…