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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to expansion of telepsychiatry services and formulation of telemedicine guidelines. However, the telemedicine guidelines are not very clear about psychiatric emergencies, such as suicidal behaviour, resulting in psychiatrists facing dilemma about handling such situations. AIM:…

OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the relationship between periods of various antiretroviral therapies and the incidence of first community-acquired pneumococcal pneumonia (CAPP) among HIV-1 infected patients. METHODS: We analysed 4075 patients enrolled prospectively in the Lyon section of the French Hospital Database on HIV be…

OBJECTIVES: Assess incidence of conductive hearing loss, ear pathology, and associated communicative disorders in cleft palate patients. STUDY DESIGN: Retrospective chart review of 101 patients all treated at a tertiary facility since birth. RESULTS: The median patient age was 19 years old (range 8-25) at last follow…

INTRODUCTION: A large body of literature has been published on urinary incontinence, ranging from medical treatment, epidemiology and surgical techniques. A bibliometric analysis is used to identify high-quality research papers using criteria such as citation rate and journal impact factor. OBJECTIVES: To describe key…

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the clinical outcome of ankle arthrodesis with screw fixation through the transfibular approach for end-stage ankle arthritis. METHODS: Data of 22 patients (28 ankles) with end-stage ankle arthritis admitted to the Department of Orthopedics and Surgery of the First Hospital of Jilin University f…

BACKGROUND: In recent decades, there have been major developments in the curative treatment of esophageal cancer, such as the implementation of positron emission tomography with computed tomography, neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy, minimally invasive surgery, and postoperative care programs. This observational study exam…

BACKGROUND: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is recently identified risk factor for development and progression of chronic liver disease as well as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). We planned a prospective analysis to identify impact of DM in Indian patients with HCC. METHODS: During last 10 years, 160 consecutive patients of HC…

PURPOSE: Acne is a chronic inflammatory skin disease with a high prevalence in Saudi Arabia. Isotretinoin is used to treat severe, resistant nodulocystic acne. Side effects include joint discomfort, headache, mucosal dryness, and nose bleeds. Elevated lipids and liver enzymes have also been recorded. The study goal is…

PURPOSE: To report the indications and outcomes of 8.5/8.6-mm excimer laser-assisted penetrating keratoplasties (PKPs) at a tertiary corneal subspecialty referral center. METHODS: This retrospective, descriptive, observational study included 107 PKPs performed in 96 patients (mean age, 53 ± 12 years). The patient…

In this first article, the author analyses the socio-e-conomico-political conditions that have led to the closing of 78.5 % of beds in American asylums in the last 30 years. The author goes on to show how the U.S. government used legislative and fiscal measures to accomplish its deinstitutionalization policy, a policy…

A 5-year clinical experience using superficial dermabrasion to remove tattoos is presented. This procedure can be done quickly in the office with low patient risk. Good pigment removal is obtained with little or no scar formation. Cases are presented which are typical of the 250 tattoos removed in the last 5 years.

OBJECTIVE: Preeclampsia often complicates pregnancies after maternal kidney transplantation. We aimed to assess whether preeclampsia is associated with kidney function decline either during the pregnancy or in the long term. METHODS: We performed an international multicenter retrospective cohort study. Renal function…

OBJECTIVE: To assess the potential of a highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) assay to monitor persistent foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) viral activity in a livestock population. DESIGN: Cattle sera were obtained in Uruguay in 1992, 2 years after the last outbreaks of FMD. Prevalence of antibo…

BACKGROUND: Air pollution has been linked to breast cancer risk, but previous studies have seldom considered specific exposure windows, like pregnancy. During pregnancy the breast undergoes substantial changes and exposures may have a stronger impact than if they occurred during other time periods. This study aims to i…

The examination of 12-year-old children attending schools in central Somerset, where similar examinations were conducted 5, 11, 15 and 30 years previously, has indicated that the caries experience of the children in these schools is continuing to decrease. However, the annual rate of change over the past 5 years is les…

BACKGROUND: Although several epidemiological studies of asthma have been carried out in Ecuador in the last two decades, none of these has estimated the prevalence of asthma in adult populations. OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of asthma symptoms in adults in the city of Quito and to identify possible associated…

An update is provided of the literature on the role of odontology in human identification, based on a PubMed-Medline search of the last 5 years and using the terms: "forensic dentistry" (n = 464 articles), "forensic odontology" (n = 141 articles) and "forensic dentistry identification" (n = 169 articles). Apart from th…

OBJECTIVE: Both systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and its treatments can contribute to increased mortality rates. The main focus of this review is recent studies on mortality during the last 5 years. METHODS: A literature search using PUBMED was performed for articles relating to lupus mortality with a specific focus…

On 9 June 2006 the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) presented the Minister of Health of Brazil with the International Elimination of Transmission of Chagas' Disease Certificate. This act was the culmination of an intensive process that began in 1991 with the Southern Cone Initiative, a joint agreement between th…

During nearly every summer of the last 15 years, massive mucilage aggregations have formed in the water column of the northern Adriatic. The phenomenon also occurred during the summer of 2004, lasting approximately from the middle of June to the end of July. After approximately 20 days of mucilage impact (coverage of t…