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14 years ago, a 5.7-year-old healthy girl was treated with desiccated thyroid for a goiter and elevated TSH levels. The goiter disappeared and TSH levels were normalized. However, hyperthyroidism appeared. Without therapy, the goiter reappeared and hyperthyroidism aggravated. Based on hormone values, TSH-induced hypert…

Gastric outlet obstruction due to peptic duodenal stricture (pyloric stenosis) was treated with parietal cell vagotomy and dilatation of the stricture in 32 patients. Follow-up is in the range of 5 years in 37.4% of the patients, while 6 to 10 years follow-up is available in 62.4% of the patients. At their last follow-…

To analyse the relationship between nocturnal micturition and health in 40- to 64-year-old women. A questionnaire study was carried out in 3669 randomly selected women (out of 6000 invited) in the County of Jämtland, Sweden. Questions were asked about the general health status of health, health development during…

BACKGROUND: Private land conservation is an essential strategy for biodiversity protection in the USA, where half of the federally listed species have at least 80% of their habitat on private lands. We investigated the alignment between private land protection conducted by the world's largest land trust (The Nature Con…

OBJECTIVE: This study was designed to determine the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of cutaneous leishmaniasis among patients attending at Tefera Hailu Memorial Hospital, Sekota, Northeast Ethiopia over the last 5 years. METHODS: A 5-year retrospective study was conducted at Tefera Hailu Memorial Hospital…

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES: Hepatitis A Virus Infection (HAI) has been related to the hygienic-sanitary situation of an area, the changes in the epidemiology of HAI in the province of Guadalajara between 1991 and 2017 are analyzed. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Cases of HAI declared between 1991 and 2017 in Guadalajara were…

OBJECTIVES: Cystectomy is the reference treatment for invasive bladder cancer and superficial tumours with a high risk of recurrence. However, the long-term results of this treatment remain controversial. Progress in anaesthesia-intensive care and surgical techniques appear to have improved the prognosis of this diseas…

OBJECTIVE: To compare the effectiveness and radiological changes of posterior decompression combined with Coflex interspinous dynamic reconstruction or lumbar 360 degrees fusion for degenerative lumbar spinal disorders at L4, 5. METHODS: Between October 2008 and November 2010, a comparative study was carried out on pa…

Over the course of the last 50 years it has been possible to solve a number of basic problems in neurobiology. Interest is now turning more and more to problems concerning so-called "higher" brain functions, including cognition. Examples from the visual system in primates are presented. First relatively elementary prob…

In 1997 life expectancy for all persons combined rose to a new record high of 76.4 years. Additionally, average future lifetime for newborn girls and boys also established new peaks--79.3 years and 73.4 years, respectively. For girls the 1997 value surpassed the previous high of 79.1 years recorded in 1992 and 1996 whi…

BACKGROUND: The LAST operation, in spite of few drawbacks, represents a good option for single Left Anterior Descending (LAD) revascularization. This procedure does not allow multivessel revascularization, where hybrid procedure have been previous described. We report preliminary experience with the LAST operation perf…

A study has been made of 8781 patients with bronchial carcinoma who were operated on by seven surgeons in England during the years 1949-80. There were 3865 pneumonectomies, 3790 lobectomies, and 1126 thoracotomies. During this period the operative mortality has fallen. Neither the resection rate nor the proportion of l…

The aim of this study is to describe trends in overweight and obesity among Slovenian youth for the period 1989-2018. Nearly all schoolchildren in Slovenia had their height and weight measured annually, which lead to a total of 6,738,510 data-points during the 30-year period. The IOTF cut-off points and Joinpoint regre…

Between 1974 and 1983, 380 consecutive patients with tetralogy of Fallot underwent surgery. In 73 patients, undergoing palliative surgery, the operative mortality and late mortality was 6.8%. Twenty-five of these patients have undergone subsequent complete repair, while 38 are awaiting correction. During the last 4 yea…

Rainfall controls fire in tropical savanna ecosystems through impacting both the amount and flammability of plant biomass, and consequently, predicted changes in tropical precipitation over the next century are likely to have contrasting effects on the fire regimes of wet and dry savannas. We reconstructed the long-ter…

OBJECTIVE: To analyze changes in frequency of caesarean section in the Czech Republic during period 1978-1997. DESIGN: Descriptive epidemiology. METHODS, RESULTS, DISCUSSION, CONCLUSION: The total cohort of all maternal deaths was analyzed regarding the main causes of death and the mode of delivery. Since 1978, a sys…

Behçet's disease/syndrome (BD) continues being aloof in his etiopathogenesis and very complex in its clinical manifestations. BD generates a good amount of scientific articles. For example, a simple search in PubMed sample that in the last 5 years has been published 1394 articles, 159 of them revisions. In additio…

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are recognized as one of the conditions in which HIV testing is most clearly indicated. We analyse whether people diagnosed with an STI are being tested for HIV according to the experience of participants in an outreach rapid testing programme in Spain. Between 2008 and 2010, 6293…

INTRODUCTION: The impact of pre-existing degeneration of a disc underlying a lumbar arthrodesis via lateral approach on long-term clinical outcome has, to our knowledge, not been studied. When performing arthrodesis between L2 and L5, its extension to L5S1 is challenging because it imposes a different surgical approach…

The SARS-CoV-2 Hydra with many heads (variants) has been causing the COVID-19 pandemic for 3 years. The appearance of every new head (SARS-CoV-2 variant) causes a new pandemic wave. The last in the series is the XBB.1.5 "Kraken" variant. In the general public (social media) and in the scientific community (scientific j…