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Periprosthetic femoral fracture is the third most frequent complication after total hip replacement (THR). It is mainly caused by low-energy trauma in the elderly. Open periprosthetic fractures are significantly rarer and are caused by high-energy trauma. Here we present a case of a 73-year-old man who sustained an ope…

Exposure to outdoor air pollution has been consistently associated with asthma. In this study, we reviewed the epidemiological studies published within the last 5 years on the association between outdoor air pollution and exacerbation and onset of asthma. A large number of studies have been published within the last 5…

97 patients with syringomyelia were treated surgically during the last 12 years. Only those patients in which the disease showed rapid progression in the last 1/2-1 year were operated. Of these 97 patients 54 were followed for 5 years or longer. 28 patients were treated by suboccipital decompression, 17 by terminal ven…

Was to assess the lidocaine and bupivacaine systemic toxicity in forensic medical practice. The number of patients' clinical observations equal three with local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) from the practice of forensic medical experts were studied, and a search of scientific publications for the last 5 years in…

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have reported favorable short-term outcomes after posterior-only hemivertebra resection and short fusion in patients with LSHV. However, there is a paucity of data evaluating the long-term outcomes following this procedure. The aim of the study is to evaluate the radiological outcomes follo…

The purpose of this narrative review is to provide an overview of last year's publications in the field of genetics, genomics and epigenetics in the osteoarthritis (OA) field. Major themes arising from a Pubmed search on (epi)genetics in OA were identified. In addition, general developments in the fast evolving field o…

BACKGROUND: Early highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), started within the first months of age, has been proven to be the optimal strategy to prevent immunological and clinical deterioration in perinatally HIV-infected children. Nevertheless, data about long-term follow-up of early treated children are lacking.…

Hundred-and-twenty patients with advanced macular degeneration (senile, disciform, and hereditary forms), which could not be helped in a satisfactory way by simple magnifying aids, were studied for an average of 5 years (a minimum of 3 years), during which they had access to a full range of low vision rehabilitation me…

Three hundred ninety-nine cemented stem revision total hip arthroplasties performed in cases with mechanical stem failure without infection and having a minimum follow-up period of 3 years were prospectively studied. Two hundred eighty-three were revised for aseptic stem loosening and 116 were revised for fractured ste…

BACKGROUND: India is the second most populated country in the world with 41% of the population (492 million) under 18 years of age. While numerous studies have shown an increasing prevalence of myopia worldwide, there continues to be uncertainty about the magnitude of myopia in Indian school going population. DESIGN:…

The 19,094 autopsy examinations carried out between 1976-1990 revealed 698 (3.65%) case of cirrhosis, of which 64.6% were men. During the last 5 years the percentage of coexistance of hepatoma (hepatocellular carcinoma) with cirrhosis was higher 5-year periods (5.8%; 5.4%). Moreover, the same changing interrelation was…

A total of 4664 bacteriological analyses of the wound and purulent discharge from orthopedo-traumatological patients were performed within a 6-year period, i.e. from 1971 to 1976. Staphylococci were the dominating microbes of the purulent-inflammatory foci. Its part in the monoculture amounted to 64.5--82 per cent. The…

The goal of this study was to evaluate the frequency and timing of "do not resuscitate" (DNR) orders among pediatric oncology patients with progressive solid tumors. A retrospective evaluation of the medical charts of 36 patients who died in our department over the last 4 years was made. There were 21 males and 15 fema…

UNLABELLED: A mobile application or app, is a software designed for smartphones and other mobile devices. Nowadays these have undergone a boom in its users offer and diversity, entering the field of medicine, for both professionals and patients. In "health apps" category, there is a part for the field of nutrition. It…

Extensive dating of the fossil corals associated with the Waimanalo shoreline on Oahu has shown that 120,000 years ago the ocean was approximately 7.6 meters above its present level. Corals grown during that time constitute a major portion of the subaerial reef-derived material on the island, with exposures ranging fro…

Meroterpenoids are hybrid natural products that partially originate from the terpenoid pathway. Ganoderma meroterpenoids (GMs) are a type of meroterpenoids containing a 1,2,4-trisubstituted phenyl and a polyunsaturated terpenoid part. Over last 5 years, great efforts have been made to conduct phytochemistry resear…

In contrast with the growing interest in dissociative disorders over the last few years, depersonalization continues to be very scarcely approached. There is no agreement among clinicians regarding the concept of depersonalization, and little is known about its etiology, epidemiology and treatment. This paper has two m…