98,297 papers found

OBJECTIVE: To analyze the clinical course of amniotic fluid embolism (AFE) and identify the high risk factors. METHODS: Thirty-eight cases diagnosed as AFE in Suzhou region during period of past 15 years were analyzed retrospectively. Fifteen years were divided into 5 stages with 3 years each. RESULTS: Of 38 cases, 3…

Fourteen infants aged less than 1 month presented to our institution during the last 22 years with ventricular tachycardia (VT) or accelerated ventricular rhythm and a structurally normal heart. In 2, VT was associated with long QT syndrome. Both are alive on beta-blocker therapy, 1 with an implanted pacemaker. Twelve…

Personality disorders (PDs) are one of the major problems for the organization of public health systems. Deepening the link between personality traits and psychopathological drifts, it seems increasingly essential for the often dramatic repercussions that PDs have on social contexts. Some of these disorders, such as bo…

Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder that is associated with short stature, partial growth hormone deficiency, small hands and feet, learning and behavioural problems, and hyperphagia leading to severe, often morbid, obesity. Growth hormone therapy is associated with an improvement in height and body composition…

OBJECTIVES: To explore the relationship of serious infection risk with current and prior oral glucocorticoid (GC) therapy in elderly patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS: A case-control analysis matched 1947 serious infection cases to five controls, selected from 16207 RA patients aged ≥ 65 between…

There are over 100 million bicycle riders in America, according to the National Safety Council, and in the last two years more than 1.25 million accidents have been reported. About 77% of these accidents occurred among children under 15 years old. Nearly 44% of reportable injuries were in the 5-14 year old age group an…

BACKGROUND: The Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons launched a 10-year prospective assessment of the Canadian pediatric surgery workforce and training environment, beginning in 2013. The results of the first 5 years (2013-2017) were previously published. Here, we present the results of the last 5 years (2018-20…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Appropriate management of degenerative joint disease in patients with dysplasic hips is a controversial issue. Non-surgical treatment is generally insufficient to achieve good long-term results and, in young patients, indications for total hip replacement, arthrodesis, or salvage procedures (Chiar…

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…

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY: Dislocation is a well-known complication of total hip arthroplasty. The risk can be reduced to one or two cases per thousand using a dual-mobility cup. The survival rate achieved with the Bousquet implant is 95% at 10 years. The complications with this implant are early mobilization and inguinal p…

A boy who developed haemolytic-uraemic syndrome (HUS) at 8 years 6 months of age had four further episodes of the disease during the next 3 years. No renal abnormalities were detected between the attacks nor in the 2.5 years after the last recurrence. Reduced levels of serum complement were found during four of the epi…

The biogenic amine serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is one of the most studied neurotransmitters in the central nervous system. It acts through the activation of at least fourteen 5-HT receptor subtypes. Over the last two decades, high attention was devoted to the 5-HT(3) and 5-HT(4) receptors due to their colocal…

The sexual abuse of children is a significant problem in the United States. It is a traditionally touchy subject which has been hidden by cultural stereotypes and taboos. It is only in the last 10, and especially the last 5 years that the true scope and essence of child sexual abuse has begun to be understood. This art…

The intraoperative, immediate postoperative, and late postoperative morbidity and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in 511 consecutive patients with clinical T1b, T1c, and T2 tumors, who underwent anatomical radical retropubic prostatectomy, have been discussed. Between 1988 and 1995, prostatic cancer was diagnose…

We report on 8 years of imaging and clinical follow-up of a confirmed hepatic angiomyolipoma (AML) undergoing notable growth over this period. The tumor grew considerably in the first 5 years, and its growth especially affected the fatty component; in the last 3 years, growth occurred more slowly. Radiologists should b…

Model-derived equilibrium line altitudes (ELAs) of former tropical glaciers support arguments, based on other paleoclimate data, for both the magnitude and spatial pattern of terrestrial cooling in the tropics at the last glacial maximum (LGM). Relative to the present, LGM ELAs were maintained by air temperatures that…

BACKGROUND: Disease outcome in Crohn's disease might have changed during the last four decades. Disease outcome measurement in Crohn's disease has methodological difficulties because of patient selection and lack of proper definition of diagnostic and outcome measurement criteria. AIM: To assess possible changes in di…

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…

PURPOSE: The treatment of osteochondral lesions is challenging and no consensus has been established about the best option for restoring both cartilage and subchondral bone. Multilayer collagen-hydroxyapatite scaffolds have shown promising clinical results, but the outcome at a follow-up longer than 5 years stil…