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BACKGROUND: Decrease in mortality due to cardiovascular diseases during last years seems to be a widespread phenomenon in industrialized countries. This study analyses the evolution of mortality due to cardiovascular diseases in Andalucía, Spain, from 1975 to 1992. The analysis has been carried out for ischemic he…

INTRODUCTION AND AIMS: Although the incidence of emphyema is increasing it continues to be a widely debated pathology in relation to its management. We analyzed the last 36 cases treated by our service in the last 2 years. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We retrospectively studied the last 36 cases of parapneum6nic pleural effu…

BACKGROUND: Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS) and smouldering multiple myeloma (SMM) are premalignant stages of multiple myeloma (MM). MM is a malignancy of plasma cells, which is associated with a median overall survival of 5 to 7 years. MM accounts for approximately 10% of hematological malign…

INTRODUCTION: Globus pallidus internus (GPi) deep brain stimulation (DBS) represents a validated, effective, and safe treatment for patients affected by generalized dystonia resistant to conservative treatment. Segmental and multisegmental dystonia have more recently been proposed as further indications for GPi DBS des…

AIM: Preliminarily we analyzed the rate incidence of organic and psychological causes of erectile dysfunction in large cohort of patients observed during last year. Particularly we wanted to analyze the factors of risk correlated to the vascular erectile dysfunction. METHODS: The epidemiological study has been conduct…

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…

AIMS: Our original study, the first national prospective study of new-onset heart failure from heart muscle disease in children, showed overall 1-year survival of 82%, and event (death or transplantation)-free survival of 66%. This study aimed to evaluate 5 + year outcomes of this important cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS…

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of cutaneous leishmaniasis among patients attending at Tefera Hailu Memorial Hospital, Sekota, Northeast Ethiopia over the last 5 years. METHODS: A 5-year retrospective study was conducted at Tefera Hailu Memorial Hospital…

A survey on the family planning behaviour in the Federal Republic of Germany was conducted by interviewers of the EMNID institute in 1985 (n = 1267) and 1989 (n = 950). The survey was carried out with women of 15 to 45 years of age. It was the aim of the 1989 study, to look into changes of the last four years generally…

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…

Our understanding of eukaryotic protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum has increased enormously over the last 5 years. In this review, we summarize some of the major research themes that have captivated researchers in this field during the last years of the 20th century. We follow the path of a typical protein as…

To evaluate when it is possible to discontinue anticonvulsant treatment in children with cryptogenic partial epilepsy, the authors studied 89 epileptic children divided into two groups: Group A, 45 children whose therapy was discontinued after 1 year from the last seizure; and Group B, 44 children whose therapy was sto…

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…

Lung cancer represents the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, accounting for ~1.2 million deaths each year. Improving survival in lung cancer is a major challenge for modern oncology considering that 5-year survival remains < 15%, across all stages of the disease with < 7% of patients alive 10 years after dia…

OBJECTIVE: The placental site trophoblastic tumor is a rare form of gestational trophoblastic disease. Fifteen percent of reported cases have been fatal, but predicting behavior in individual patients has been challenging. METHODS: The clinical, gross and histopathological features of 55 cases and 180 cases in the lit…

This study evaluated the characteristics of a newly developed 3-dimensional printed mesh structure titanium spacer and its efficacy for posterior lumbar interbody fusion. Posterior lumbar interbody fusion with this spacer was performed at 53 segments (40 patients; mean age, 64 years; range, 51-73 years). Data were coll…

BACKGROUND: In the last decade the therapeutic concept of renovascular disease has changed. The numbers of primary surgical revascularisations have fallen substantially due to the invention of percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA). PATIENTS AND METHODS: Retrospective data analysis. From September 1992 to Decembe…

This paper combines the data sets available today for 14C-age calibration of the last 60 ka. By stepwise synchronization of paleoclimate signatures, each of these sets of 14C-ages is compared with the U/Th-dated Chinese Hulu Cave speleothem records, which shows global paleoclimate change in high temporal resolution. By…

OBJECTIVES: Fractures are a common complication of osteoporosis. The main aim of our study was to assess the relation between fractures identified as low energy fractures (fragility), bone mineral density (BMD), trabecular bone score (TBS), and handgrip in a group of postmenopausal women. An additional aim was to deter…

Within the last 30 years, the number of patients in China with coronary artery disease has increased six fold. To delineate the suspected cause of the increase in myocardial infarction, in 1972 a research group was established for analysis of the compiled data from 26 hospitals in Peking. The following results were obt…