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Lehmann H E·The Journal of clinical psychiatry
Without antidepressant therapy, episodes of clinical depression last from 2 months to several years, with an average of around 5 to 6 months. One-third of the patients recover within a year; probably one out of four untreated episodes may last more than 2 years. Depressive episodes occur, on the average, every 2 to 3 y…
Tafesse Temesgen, Tolera Chimdessa, Amenu Desalegn·BioMed research international
BACKGROUND: Malaria is a serious public health concern in the world, and it causes a major socioeconomic problem in Ethiopia. Malaria data trend analysis of health facilities is useful to understand the prevalence and incidence of malaria cases and implementing evidence-based malaria control strategies. Hence, the main…
Schiffer C A, Aisner J, Dutcher J P, +2 more·Progress in clinical and biological research
A program of platelet cryopreservation has been developed at the Baltimore Cancer Research Center which now provides substantial proportion of the platelet transfusion requirements of alloimmunized patients. The program has gradually grown in size during the last eight years and in 1979 approximately 1600 units of froz…
Kubota Satoshi, Kawaguchi Kengo, Yanagida Haruhisa, +1 more·European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society
PURPOSE: To develop regression models for predicting adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) progression using machine learning with clinical and radiographic data. METHODS: We included female patients aged 10 to 13 years diagnosed with AIS at our institution between 2007 and 2020. Only those with mild-to-moderate AIS (i…
Knecht B H·American journal of surgery
The Mason gastric bypass as performed over 8 years on 171 patients for the treatment of massive exogenous obesity. The first 26 patients had a large pouch constructed, and poor long-term weight loss occurred. In the last 6 years, 145 patients had a smaller pouch with a 5.5 percent immediate postoperative complications…
Leclercq S, Benoit J-Y, de Rosa J-P, +3 more·Revue de chirurgie orthopedique et reparatrice de l'appareil moteur
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Dislocation is a well-known complication of total hip arthroplasty. The risk can be reduced to one or two cases per thousand using a double mobility cup. The survival rate achieved with the Bousquet implant is 95% at 10 years. The complications with this implant are early mobilization and inguinal…
Savvas M, Studd J W, Fogelman I, +3 more·BMJ (Clinical research ed.)
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To compare oral and implanted oestrogens for their effects in preventing postmenopausal osteoporosis. DESIGN: Non-randomised cohort study of postmenopausal women treated with oral or depot oestrogens and postmenopausal controls. SETTING: Gynaecological endocrine clinic in tertiary referral centre. P…
Ren Xiaotong, Wang Jie, Li Xuemin, +1 more·Journal of clinical medicine
Our purpose is to evaluate long-term changes in corneal endothelial cells after Ex-PRESS shunt implantation for the treatment of glaucoma in Chinese patients by comparison with the contralateral eye. In this retrospective observational study, glaucoma patients with a single eye undergoing Ex-PRESS shunt implantation su…
Hedayati-Moghaddam Mohammad Reza, Eftekharzadeh-Mashhadi Iman, Fathimoghadam Farhad, +1 more·Journal of reproduction & infertility
BACKGROUND: The incidence of sexual transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV/AIDS is globally higher in young people. This study evaluated the prevalence of sexual reproductive behaviors among undergraduate students of Mashhad, Iran. METHODS: The study was conducted on 605 students in twelve non-medical faculties of a gr…
El Boghdady Michael, Ewalds-Kvist Beatrice Marianne·Updates in surgery
INTRODUCTION: Racial/ethnic discrimination indicates the stereotyped or unkind conduct of superiority towards other persons based on their race or skin color. The UK General Medical Council published a statement supporting zero-tolerance approach to racism in the workplace. We aimed to systematically review racial…
Ashton J J, Wiskin A E, Ennis S, +3 more·Archives of disease in childhood
BACKGROUND: There has been a significant increase in the incidence of paediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD) over the last 25 years although there is no recent data from England. We aimed to analyse changes in incidence within a defined English population over the last decade and compare this to recent and histor…
Elder J S, Hladky D, Selzman A A·The Journal of urology
We describe a surgical approach that allows multicystic dysplastic and nonfunctioning hydronephrotic kidneys to be removed on an outpatient basis through a 2.5 to 3 cm. subcostal incision. In the last 5 years 40 children (age 4 months to 5 years, mean 8.2 months) were scheduled for outpatient nephrectomy in an ambulato…
Sathyanarayana Rao T S, Kumar V Arun, Raman Rajesh, +1 more·Indian journal of psychiatry
We report a 40-year-old male who self-administered sildenafil for 10 years, in progressively increasing doses from 100 mg per occasion in the 1(st) year to 1300 mg per occasion in the 9(th)-10(th) years of (ab)use. The frequency of abuse was 2-3/week. The only adverse effect of concern that was reported was transient (…
Tavares Carlos Mendes, Schor Néia, Valenti Vitor E, +2 more·Reproductive health
OBJECTIVE: To estimate factors associated with condom use at last sexual intercourse among adolescents. METHODS: Cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 368 sexually active adolescents aged 13-17 years from eight public high schools on Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 2007. The level of significance was 5.0% o…
Ebalard M, Le Henaff G, Sigonney G, +4 more·Orthopaedics & traumatology, surgery & research : OTSR
INTRODUCTION: The goal of this retrospective, multicentre study was to evaluate the long-term outcomes in patients who have undergone partial or total arthrodesis of the subtalar and midtarsal joints. HYPOTHESIS: Secondary osteoarthritis of the adjacent joints can negatively affect the outcomes more than 10 years afte…
Giesser I L, Doerr H W, Rabenau H F·International journal of hygiene and environmental health
Epidemiological studies can help to understand the effects of medical treatment of HIV infections. Accordingly, this study was designed to discuss the most important parameters in Frankfurt/Main and other big German cities from 1984 to 2000. The number of HIV tests performed by Frankfurt's Virology has been decreasing…
Amir Mohammed, Akhtar Saeed, Pervaiz Minhal, +3 more·Journal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP
A 72 years old lady presented with a gradually increasing abdominal mass for the last 25 years, with more rapid increase in the last 05 years. Examination revealed a large mass spanning the whole abdomen. CAT scan revealed a huge retroperitoneal tumour, with tortuous ureters passing through the tumour and three tiny no…
Nagarajan Elanagan, Lynch Timothy M, Frawley Bridget, +1 more·Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the tolerability of clobazam in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy aged 50 years and older. METHODS: We performed a single center, retrospective chart review of patients at least 50 years of age with drug resistant epilepsy of any type who started clobazam as an add on therapy. Rete…
Maillet P, Baulieux J, Boulez J, +1 more·American journal of surgery
A group of 271 squamous carcinomas of the thoracic esophagus were studied. All of these patients underwent the same operation: one-stage esophagogastrectomy through a combined abdominal and right thoracic approach. Adenocarcinomas, tumors of the cardia and excisions through a left-sided thoracic approach were excluded.…
He Shao-Qi, Dai Ming-Hai, Huang Yi-Jiang, +4 more·Zhongguo gu shang = China journal of orthopaedics and traumatology
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility and safety of the treatment for thoracolumbar fractures with pedicle screw at the fracture level and vertebroplasty via paraspinal approach. METHODS: From August 2007 to August 2010, 22 old patients with thoracolumbar fractures were treated with pedicle screw at the fracture l…