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AIMS: To measure the level of heavy amphetamine use, poly drug use, and intravenous drug use by amphetamine users in New Zealand. METHODS: Using a Computer Assisted Telephone Interview (CATI) system, a national sample of approximately 5500 people (aged 15-45 years) were interviewed about their recreational drug use.…

We report on a female patient with a large suprasellar arachnoid cyst (3.5 x 2.5 cm) combined with right optic nerve hypoplasia. She developed growth hormone deficiency and hypothyroidism at the age of 8.5 years, adrenal insufficiency at the age of 11 years, diabetes insipidus and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism at the a…

BACKGROUND: Cervical spondylotic myelopathy increases with age, but not all cases are symptomatic. It is usually diagnosed clinically and radiologically (X-ray and magnetic resonance imaging). Surgical treatment is indicated in severe symptomatic cases, while treatment controversy exists in the presence of less severe…

BACKGROUND: During the last decades, the frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS) is increasing worldwide. Nevertheless, the higher sensibility of the new diagnostic criteria obscures the comparison between studies performed in different decades. METHODS: The evolution of the frequency of MS in Santiago de Compostela (Nor…

P. Carpenter (1986) used the term "incidentalomas" in connection with all incidentally discovered adrenal masses. Previously these masses were frequent incidental discoveries at autopsies, but now, with the increasing use of abdominal computed tomography. In the last 10 years 5 patients with incidentally diseases, sign…

PURPOSE: There is a tendency to use data generated for adults in the management of pediatric Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma, neglecting the clinical peculiarities of this condition in childhood. This study aimed to assess and compare the clinical-epidemiological characteristics and their significance in the evolution…

Forty-four cases of essential thrombocytosis (ET) were diagnosed in the last 20 years, 19 males and 24 females (M/F: 0.76), aged between 3 and 86 years (median, 62 years), and 9 of them being under 40 years of age. The M/F ratio for patients under 60 years was 0.5, whereas it was 1.09 for patients over 60. The clinical…

AIM: To investigate the outcome of contact lens (CL) fitting in aphakic children following lensectomy for congenital cataract. METHOD: Retrospective data of 205 aphakic children who visited for CL fitting following lensectomy from 2008 to 2018 were collected. Data includes the demographic details, CL parameters in fir…

OBJECTIVE.: Motivation for the study. Despite the prevalence of ASD, research in the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is scarce in Peru. Main findings. Of 120 children with a previous diagnosis of ASD, only 9.8% received inclusive education. The median age at diagnosis was 3.83 years. We also found that 78…

To better understand the various individual factors that contribute to balance and the relation to fall risk, we performed the modified Romberg Test of Standing Balance on Firm and Compliant Support, with 1,174 participants between 4 and 83 years of age. This research was conducted in the Living Laboratoryat the…

PURPOSE: The availability, acceptability and practice of oncoplastic surgery has increased over the last 5 years. This study aims to describe how the breast and plastic surgical workforce has adapted to provide oncoplastic breast surgery. METHODS: A questionnaire was distributed to members of the Association of Breast…

Total knee arthroplasty (TKA) infection are most commonly due Staphylococcus aureus followed by coagulase-negative staphylococci, and streptococci, while gram-negative rods are seldom isolated.(1,3,4) In the last 20 years, cases of Pasteurella multocida TKA and total hip arthroplasty (THA) infection resulting from cat…

Metabolic syndrome is a complex disorder associated with several cardiovascular risk factors resulting in a 2.5-fold increase in cardiovascular mortality in adults. However, over the last 20 years, the same association has been demonstrated in the young population, and it is also related to a parental history of the sy…

Changes in lake and stream habitats during the growth and retreat of Pleistocene glaciers repeatedly altered the spatial distributions and population sizes of the aquatic fauna of the southern Andes. Here, we use variation in mtDNA control region sequences to infer the temporal dynamics of two species of southern Andea…

1. Birth induction in twin pregnancies was substantially reduced to 6% in last few years (1984-87) as opposed to 21% between 1975 and 1980. 2. Premature rupture of the membrane increased in the last years. At a rate of 33% is occurred nearly twice as often as with singletons (18%). A waiting policy increasingly adopted…

Micturition studies were performed pre-, inter- and postoperatively in a consecutive series comprising 148 unselected hypospadiacs, both short-term results (on average 1 3/12 years after the last operation) and long-term results (on average 6 3/12 years after the last operation) being recorded. The clinical material wa…

BACKGROUND: In patients with relapsing polychondritis (RP), organ involvement developed in those with progressive and/or long disease courses. For their management, elucidation of a subgroup suggesting disease progression is awaited. METHODS: We previously conducted a physician's questionnaire-based retrospective stud…