98,306 papers found

OBJECTIVES: Dental implants shorter than 8 mm, called short dental implants (SDIs), have been considered to have a lower success rate than standard length implants. But recent studies have shown that SDIs have a comparable success rate, and implant diameter was more important for implant survival than implant length. A…

BACKGROUND: There has been a rapid proliferation of FDA-approved medications with labeled indications for skin cancer over the last decade, with particular growth over the last 5 years. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to evaluate the impact of an evolving U.S. regulatory framework on drug development programs to better understand…

OBJECTIVE: To directly compare the predictive powers of somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) to those of motor and pupillary responses. DESIGN AND SETTING: Prospective clinical study in a paediatric intensive care unit. PATIENTS AND PARTICIPANTS: 102 severely brain-injured children less than 15 years of age. MEASU…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Published prevalences of depression are mainly based on measurements of depressive symptoms, whereas data on clinical depressions are lacking. Our aim was to map the prevalence of ICD-10 diagnoses of depression made by physicians in routine healthcare, during the last year of life in non-cancer c…

This nationally representative study, encompassing all single youth (15-24 years), was carried out on the subpopulation of Ethiopia DHS 2000 to determine the influences of socio-demographic characteristics on sexual behaviour, and assess the knowledge and awareness of HIV/AIDS and other STIs. There were a total of 890…

During last 5 years only single cases of poisoning with plants containing psychoactive substances, especially Datura stramonium, were treated in the Department of Clinical Toxicology in Kraków. In autumn 1999, during 1 month, 7 patients, aged from 14 to 27 years (mean 18 years) poisoned with Datura stramonium were…

OBJECTIVES: To map out the total use of long-term care (LTC; ie, home care or institutional care) during the last 2 years of life and to investigate to what extent gender differences in LTC use were explained by cohabitation status and age at death. DESIGN: The National Cause of Death Register was used to identif…

PURPOSE: To determine the lifetime risk and duration of blindness in patients with manifest open-angle glaucoma (OAG). DESIGN: Retrospective chart review. METHODS: We studied glaucoma patients who died between January 2006 and June 2010. Most glaucoma patients living in the catchment area (city of Malmö; n = 305…

BACKGROUND: While good mid-term results for treating spontaneous knee osteonecrosis (SPONK) with unicompartmental knee arthroplasty (UKA) have been reported, concerns remain about implant survival at long-term. This study aimed to compare outcomes and survivorship of UKA for SPONK vs osteoarthritis at a minimum of 10 y…

STUDY DESIGN: A retrospective study. OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the surgical outcomes of posterior hemivertebra resection and short segment fusion with segmental pedicle screw fixation in congenital scoliosis in children younger than 10 years. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: This is the first long-term follow-up on surgical…

PURPOSE: This retrospective study was undertaken to evaluate if a "low dose" intraoperative sponge 5-fluorouracil application may improve the quality of the postoperative IOP control without increasing the incidence of postoperative complications following a first trabeculectomy in low-risk and/or severe field defects…

Hematopoietic cell transplantation is an established treatment option with curative potential for a variety of clinical conditions. The last decade especially witnessed a remarkable increase in HCT activity in Turkey. In 2014, 696 pediatric and 2631 adult (total 3327) HCT were performed in Turkey. Corresponding transpl…

The results of clinical examination and treatment of 751 patients with rectal cancer are presented. A total of 684 (91.0%) patients underwent radical surgery. In 439 (64.2%) from them sphincter saving operations were carried out. The rate of sphincter saving procedures for the last 5 years has increased up to 73.8%, mo…

American expectations for health care over the last 30 years have been developed during the most massive transfer of wealth into one sector that history has ever seen. American expenditures for health have been growing for the last 40 years at two and one half times the rate of inflation, which defies the law of econom…

BACKGROUND: Statin use for hypercholesterolemia in children is predominantly reported from short-term clinical trials. In this study, we assess the efficacy and safety of statin treatment in clinical pediatric practice. METHODS: Records of all patients who began statin treatment at age <18 years and remained on statin…

BACKGROUND: In recent decades, there have been substantial changes in mortality from urologic cancers in Europe. OBJECTIVE: To provide updated information, we analyzed trends in mortality from cancer of the prostate, testis, bladder, and kidney in Europe from 1970 to 2008. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We derive…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate efficacy and safety of botulinum toxin A injections after more than 10 consecutive years of treatment for benign essential blepharospasm and hemifacial spasm. DESIGN: Retrospective chart review at university-affiliated hospital. PARTICIPANTS: Study consisted of 64 patients treated with botulin…

Immediate or delayed hypersensitivity reactions to iodinated contrast media (ICM) occur in 0.5-3 % of patients receiving radiological examinations using the last generation ICM. Although the majority of the reactions are mild to moderate, severe and potentially lethal reactions may occasionally be observed. In the last…

The last 20 years of the last century, that sounds long ago but was actually the time that many of us already practiced in Rhinology or received their training, was I think the time of endoscopic sinus surgery. We learned all the possibilities of the endoscope, first mainly in limited inflammatory disease but later als…