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OBJECTIVE: To study the clinico-etiological spectrum and outcomes of children with rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN). METHODS: This retrospective cohort study evaluated patients <18 years with RPGN, over an 8-year period (2014-2022), for etiology and kidney outcomes. RESULTS: Among 68 RPGN cases [median a…

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the trends in the incidence, survival, and treatment patterns of gallbladder cancer over the last decade. METHODS: Data of patients in the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program of the National Cancer Institute (SEER 13) with a diagnosis of primary gallbladder cancer from…

The immune status against polioviruses was investigated in a population of 545 students aged 11-20 years residing in the Neapolitan area, who had completed the vaccination cycle with four doses of OPV 5 to over 15 years before. Assuming as unprotected those individuals without detectable neutralizing antibodies at the…

From 1982 to 1994, 1.003 cases of surgical newborns have been retrospectively studied. Frequency and epidemiology have been evaluated, so as associated malformations. Prenatal diagnosis was made in 72 cases (7.1%). The most frequent entity was intestinal atresia, with 122 cases (12.1%), followed by necrotizing enteroco…

A survey of 128 biotechnology core facilities has provided data on the finances, services, space requirements, and personnel. An average facility had four full-time personnel and 7.5 major instrument systems, and occupied 969 sq. ft. Average total income was $244,000/year, but annual user fee income was only $125,000.…

A questionnaire was developed and administered to 433 female college students in 1985 and 973 females in 1990 to assess their body shape preferences. Their ideal weights for their current heights as estimated by them were analyzed using the body mass index. Our samples perceived their 'average' BMI at -0.5 s.d. of thei…

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the long-term topographic and refractive outcomes of corneal cross-linking (CXL) in keratoconus. Methods: We used a retrospective observational study of patients with keratoconus who underwent CXL with a minimum follow-up of 5 years. Patients&#x2019; refractive and topog…

The enlargement of the frontal sinus has been analysed in a longitudinal study of 49 males and 47 females for whom a first lateral cephalogram was available at from 2 to 5 years of age for 88 subjects and from 6 to 11 years for 8 subjects. Thereafter the cephalograms were taken at approximately yearly intervals and in…

BACKGROUND: Chemotherapy near the end of life is an issue frequently discussed nowadays. The concern is that chemotherapy could cause more harm than good in a palliative situation; this is even truer as the patient nears death. The objective of our study is to evaluate the aggressiveness of patient care near the end of…

This retrospective study reviews 298 sequential cementless CLS Spotorno stems, which achieved their primary fixation and bony in- or ongrowth predominantly in the metaphyseal region. The minimum follow-up was 10 years and the average follow-up 11.7 years (range 10-14). The mean age at surgery was 55.2 years (range 32.2…

In Serbia, infection with Trichinella spp. has been recognized as a human health and animal husbandry problem for almost a century. The rate of swine infection gradually decreased from 0.14% to 0.02% between 2001 and 2010. For the past 5 years, Trichinella infections among swine were detected at levels higher than 0.05…

The diseases responsible of fever of unknown origin (FUO) have changed in the last years. With the object of study the etiologic spectrum and diagnostic attitude in the FUO in a national level in the last 25 years, we has revised 14 articles of FUO realized in Internal Medicine published from 1970 to 1995, without aids…

The relationship between childbearing and mortality from breast cancer has been studied in a cohort of 822,593 currently married Norwegian women with information on parity from the Census in 1970 and follow-up till 1985. All age groups of parous women showed significant trends of decreasing mortality rates with increas…

The last 5 years have seen dramatic developments in South Africa, with wide-based internal political struggles and international pressure forcing the government into a well publicized if temporary series of reforms. Yet this has not been paralleled by any substantial improvement in the health conditions of the majority…

The present inter-University study aims to analyze the vaccine statute of the Belgian French-speaking general practionners and the reasons of their possible non-vaccination. A questionnaire with an exhaustive list of vaccines was sent by postal way to a random sample of thousand two hundred and twenty general practitio…

OBJECTIVE: To identify and describe 1) progress achieved thus far in meeting the commitments of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal (MDG 4) in Mexico, mainly the contribution of the Universal Immunization Program (UIP) over the last 20 years, and 2) new opportunities for further reducing mortality among children und…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the clinical features of Giant cell tumour of hand, in terms of aggressiveness, multicentricity and radiological grading at presentation, surgical procedures and final outcome. STUDY DESIGN: A case series. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC), Karachi, from Jan…