98,302 papers found

Three hundred and eighty-six patients with acute myocardial infarction in the past 11 years between 1975 and 1985 were investigated retrospectively to clarify fatality, cause of death and long-term prognosis in relation to their risk factors and age. The average number of patients admitted in each year was 24.4 for the…

This study aims to investigate the five-year trend of minimally invasive hysterectomy and identify factors associated with increased intraoperative and postoperative complications within the last five years (2017-2021).A retrospective chart review was performed between March 30th and April 10th, 2022, which included wo…

OBJECTIVE: To know about the predictive prevalence of hip and knee arthroplasty across Pakistan. METHODS: It is retrospective cross-sectional study with data collection from Pakistan National Joint Registry (PNJR) of number of hip and knee arthroplasty cases in seven years (2014-2021). Fourteen high volume centers acr…

The prevalence of respiratory symptoms indicative of asthma in children from Latin America has been largely ignored. As part of the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC), 17 centers in 9 different Latin American countries participated in the study, and data from 52,549 written questionnaires…

Laboratory confirmed cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) have been reported in the Czech Republic since 1971. Peaks of incidence occurred at 2 to 5-year intervals. The incidence in the eighties was generally lower than in seventies. In the nineties there was a sharp increase in incidence that peaked in 1995 (7.2/100…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the tolerability of clobazam in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy aged 50 years and older. METHODS: We performed a single center, retrospective chart review of patients at least 50 years of age with drug resistant epilepsy of any type who started clobazam as an add on therapy. Rete…

BACKGROUND: Mobile-bearing knee designs represent an alternative to conventional fixed-bearing implants in total knee arthroplasty. The purpose of this study was to determine the clinical results of a mobile-bearing knee implant. METHODS: From 1990 to 1998, 326 primary consecutive mobile-bearing total knee prostheses…

Biodiversity is expected to change in response to future global warming. However, it is difficult to predict how species will track the ongoing climate change. Here we use the fossil record of planktonic foraminifera to assess how biodiversity responded to climate change with a magnitude comparable to future anthropoge…

We have examined the relations between the incidence of cancer of the corpus uteri and pregnancies in a cohort of 765,756 Norwegian women, contributing a total of 9,307,118 person-years in the age interval 30-56 years. Incidence rate ratios (IRR) were calculated by Poisson regression analyses of person-years at risk. S…

PURPOSE: This retrospective monocentric study aimed to evaluate long-term auditory brainstem implant (ABI) function in patients with neurofibromatosis type 2, and to investigate the prognostic factors for ABI use. METHODS: Between 1997 and 2022, 27 patients with at least five years of follow-up underwent implantation…

OBJECTIVE: To describe the incidence of intralabyrinthine schwannoma (ILS) utilizing the Rochester Epidemiology Project (REP), a unique medical consortium in the United States that covers a complete population of all ages in a well-defined geographic area over the past half-century. PATIENTS: All patients with ILS dia…

Coral reefs are renowned for their spectacular biodiversity and the close links between fishes and corals. Despite extensive fossil records and common biogeographic histories, the evolution of these two key groups has rarely been considered together. We therefore examine recent advances in molecular phylogenetics and p…

INTRODUCTION: Multiple myeloma (MM) is considered as a disease of the old with the reported median age of 60-70 years. The disease occurred a decade earlier in the Indian subcontinent. The literature on MM in adolescents and young adult (AYA) is limited. We studied the disease characteristics and outcomes of the AYA-MM…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between subclinical hypothyroidism with early menopause, premature menopause, and last menstrual bleeding before the natural age of menopause. METHODS: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in 643 postmenopausal women aged 40-69 years. Groups were formed according to…

AIMS: Coronary sinus (CS) leads used for cardiac resynchronization have undergone development in the last years. However, dislocation rate remained high. We explain a simple method to stabilize the CS lead position. METHODS AND RESULTS: Thirty-five patients (11 females, aged 60 +/- 9.2 years) were treated with this me…

Between 20 and 44 years of age, in France, two women out of three use contraception; 41% use oral contraception, and 16% the IUD; 5% use condoms, and sterilization remains uncommon. Since 1988, when some information was made about the AIDS epidemics, condoms have become widely used, as a temporary method, especially by…

Background. Sleep complaints are common in patients with epilepsy (PWE). Excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS) is one of the most reported complaints and its impact is still a matter of debate. Objective. Evaluate the relationship between EDS and epilepsy, with emphasis on prevalence, assessment, and causes. Methods. A sy…

During the last 2.5 years, the RealityGrid project has allowed us to be one of the few scientific groups involved in the development of computational Grids. Since smoothly working production Grids are not yet available, we have been able to substantially influence the direction of software and Grid deployment within th…

Surgical dermatology continues to evolve rapidly. The field is blessed with a number of bright and enthusiastic young surgeons who are willing to spend to necessary time investigating new techniques. The horizon has changed dramatically over the last 5 years and promises to change even more in the years to come.