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In the last decade, more than 1.5 million children have died as victims of war and 2000 over 300,000 children were being used as combatants. Colombia, the fourth largest country in Latin America in terms of population and second in area, has been the site of conflict between the government and guerrilla groups, which h…

OBJECTIVE: To review the published literature over the last 10 years for the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in tardive dyskinesia (TD), focusing on the efficacy of this treatment. DATA SOURCES: A comprehensive evidence search of the published literature in the last 10 years (2010-2020) was conducted using the…

OBJECTIVE: To describe drug use profile in children living in poor areas and associated factors. METHODS: Population-based, cross-sectional study, including 1,382 children aged between four and 11 years. These children were selected by random sampling of 24 micro-areas, representative of the poorest segments of the po…

Bronchiectasis, a chronic lung disease characterised by cough and purulent sputum, recurrent infections, and airway damage, is associated with considerable morbidity and mortality. To date, treatment options have been limited to physiotherapy to clear sputum and antibiotics to treat acute infections. Over the last deca…

Treatment with intrathecal baclofen (ITB) is a therapeutic option in the management of severe spasticity in patients with hereditary spastic paraparesis (HSP). However, information on the impact of ITB on the natural course of disease, especially the effect of ITB on functional parameters over time is limited.We evalua…

There has been an explosive growth in research over the last decade exploring machine learning techniques for analyzing chest X-ray (CXR) images for screening cardiopulmonary abnormalities. In particular, we have observed a strong interest in screening for tuberculosis (TB). This interest has coincided with the spectac…

The relevant literature on cerebrovascular diseases from the Indian subcontinent in the last 35 years has been reviewed. Most of the data available are from retrospective studies carried out in various large urban hospitals. The incidence of stroke reported is less when compared with western figures, which may be a ref…

Many new insights have been gained over the past 5 years into the mechanisms that regulate immune reactivity to cell and organ transplants. This new knowledge is being applied to the development of innovative experimental strategies that may soon be evaluated in the clinic.

BACKGROUND: Those who go online regarding their sexual health are potential users of new Internet-based sexual health interventions. Understanding the size and characteristics of this population is important in informing intervention design and delivery. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to estimate the prevalence in Britain of rec…

INTRODUCTION: Long term results of different surgical techniques in Hirschsprung's Disease (HD) are contradictory. There are still no long term large or multicentric reports about functional results of De la Torre technique. We have studied the mid term functional results of the patients operated on Duhamel (D) and De…

OBJECTIVE: To explore effectiveness of intermediate screw assisted reduction and fixation technique in the treatment of Schatzker type Ⅴ and Ⅵ tibial plateau fractures. METHODS: A clinical data of 22 patients with Schatzker type Ⅴ and Ⅵ tibial plateau fractures, who were admitted between Ju…

SIGNIFICANCE: The global increase of myopia has caused a lot of debate the last years. Previous research of myopia in the Nordic population has shown diverse results, and only a few Swedish studies have been published in the subject the last two decades. PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze trends in the prevalence of…

PURPOSE: To compare improvement in long-term stereoacuity between patients with refractive accommodative esotropia (RAET) with initial subnormal stereopsis (between 120 and 1,980 arcsec of stereoacuity) and nil stereopsis. METHODS: The medical records of patients 4 years and older who had RAET with initial subnormal s…

OBJECTIVE: To study the safety of antiepileptic drug (AED) withdrawal after temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) surgery. METHODS: We reviewed patients who underwent TLE surgery from 1995 to 2011, collecting data on doses, dates of AED initiation, reduction, and discontinuation. Predictors of seizure outcome were defined usin…

The evolution of the drug use epidemic in Greece (prevalence and incidence of use of illicit drugs and illicit use of psychoactive pharmaceuticals) over a 20-year period is presented taking into account the sociocultural context and policies. Data were drawn from face-to-face household surveys carried out in 1984, 1998…

We examined the pattern and degree of the inflammatory process in bronchial biopsy specimens taken by fiberoptic bronchoscopy in eight asthmatic subjects (two women aged 19-38 years) after 5 years of specific immunotherapy (SIT) to mite extracts (SIT group). At the time of study, they received a maintenance dose of mit…

The examination sample was a group of 1592 children of 3 to 6 years of age (787 boys and 805 girls). Aim of the examination was to gather information about the rate and intensity of caries cases of Capital kindergartners. The results permit to state that the rate and intensity of caries show a declining tendency in the…

This follow-up study investigated whether attitudes toward the metric system have changed over the last 15 years. 132 subjects ranging in age from 18 to 45 years participated by filling out a 7-item survey designed to measure attitudes toward the metric system. Each survey item was scored using a 5-point rating, e.g.,…