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Epilepsy surgery is recommended in selected patients with Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC). However, reports on predictive factors of seizure outcome are variable. Here we report on seizure and cognitive outcome of 35 TSC patients who received surgery for refractory epilepsy in 7 Italian centers over a period of 22&#xa…

INTRODUCTION: Day hospitals in psychiatry are a major alternative to inpatient care today, acting as key components of community and social psychiatry. OBJECTIVE: To study trends in the use of psychiatric day hospitals over the last decades of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st century, focusing on pati…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of nitinol memory alloy two foot fixator combined with Kirschner wire in the treatment of trans-scaphoid perilunate dislocation. METHODS: Between September 2011 and October 2018, 17 patients with trans-scaphoid perilunate dislocation were treated with nitinol memory alloy two f…

CONTEXT: The prevalence of obesity has grown in the US over the decades. The temporal trends of body mass index categories in the last two years of life are poorly understood. OBJECTIVES: To describe the trends in body mass categories in the last two years of life over the past two decades controlling for other demogr…

BACKGROUND: Liver transplantation is a life-saving treatment for end-stage pediatric liver failure. We aimed to present the results of pediatric liver transplants performed in our center in the last 11 years (between 2012 and March 2022) in association with prognostic factors affecting survival. METHODS: Demographic c…

Objective The aim of the present study was to compare the health status of South Australians with recent experience of caring for an adult with chronic disease with non-carers drawn from the same population. Methods Data were collected via the South Australian Health Omnibus, an annual population-based, cross-sectional…

BACKGROUND: The Cox-maze procedure is the standard to which other surgical treatments of atrial fibrillation (AF) are compared. However, evaluation of new devices and lesion sets is difficult because of variable methods of reporting success in eliminating AF. We analyzed 10-year outcome with the "cut and sew" Cox-maze…

BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to examine, in a population not submitted to mass screening, the risk of cancer and cervical intra-epithelial neoplasia (CIN) in Pap smears from women without previously reported positive smears. METHODS: In a logistic regression model consisting of 58,271 smears from 40,536 Norwe…

This study reviewed the 18-year experience of acute dialysis in the pediatric intensive care unit, in order to identify factors that could predict outcome, and to determine whether newer modalities of acute dialysis have influenced this outcome. Sixty-six children (ages 1 day to 19 years) received acute dialysis from M…

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relationship between O-EA angle and lower cervical curvature in patients with anterior atlantoaxial dislocation undergoing occipitocervical fusion, and to analyze the effect of O-EA angle on lower cervical curvature. METHODS: The clinical data of 61 patients with anterior atlantoaxial dis…

It is puzzling why life on Earth consisted of prokaryotes for up to 2.5 ± 0.5 billion years (Gy) before the appearance of the first eukaryotes. This period, from LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) to LECA (Last Eucaryotic Common Ancestor), we have named the Lucacene, to suggest all prokaryotic descend…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effectiveness of combined posterior decompression with laminoplasty and anterior decompression with fusion for the treatment of cervical spinal canal stenosis with reverse arch. METHODS: Between May 2009 and February 2012, 13 cases of cervical spinal canal stenosis with reverse arch underwen…

Sixty-three consecutive patients who had 82 Harris-Galante porous acetabular cups (HGP1) (Zimmer Inc, Warsaw, IN) implanted for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis were prospectively assessed since 1986. At last examination, 12 patients (16 hips) had died, and 1 patient (1 hip) was lost to follow-up. A total of 65 hi…

Among 26 American-born women of Chinese ancestry, 43 Chinese immigrant women who had lived in San Francisco longer than 5 years, and 199 who had immigrated within the last 5 years, fewer than 39% practiced contraception. Oral contraception was used by significantly more of the American-born than of the other two catego…

With the availability of novel disease-modifying therapies (DMT), survival in spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) has significantly increased, but mortality is not rare in severely affected cases. To improve care further, we aimed to characterise causes of mortality in children with SMA over the last five years since the int…

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to assess the behaviour of atypical carcinoids operated at our Department in the period 1977-1998 and to review the last 19 cases according to Capella's classification (1994), indicating the most adequate surgical approach. METHODS: On the basis of anatomo-pathological charact…

OBJECTIVES: To examine the orientation, magnitude, and pace of secular trends in body height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) among Chinese urban students aged 7-18 years from 2000 to 2019. METHODS: Data were extracted from Chinese urban students aged 7-18 years from the Chinese National Surveillance o…

BACKGROUND: The study of mortality of human groups is important to judge the health conditions of population. AIM: To study the main mortality features among Chilean adults. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Information about mortality in Chile from the Instituto nacional de Estadísticas and The World Health Organization, w…

Three female patients aged 30,55 and 4 years had large tumour-like masses, which were progressively increasing in size for the last 4,5 and 4 years respectively. Excision of these lesions and histopathlology revealed mature fat cells in the middle, and lower dermis, interspersed between collagen bundles and surrounding…

OBJECTIVE: To describe clinical manifestations and outcomes in patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) in North America. METHODS: Analysis of patients aged 18 years or older who fulfilled the 1990 American College of Rheumatology Classification Criteria for EGPA enrolled in the Vasculitis Cl…