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INTRODUCTION: Acquired stenosis of the airway is a common complication after endotracheal intubation. Endoscopic dilation has been accepted as the treatment of choice in cases detected precociously. Our goal is to know the current status of the patients treated in our hospital with endoscopic dilation in the last 10 ye…

PURPOSE: To investigate the long-term outcomes of ocular surface stem cell allograft transplantation (OSST) in patients with total limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) owing to various etiologies with a follow-up ≥ 5 years. DESIGN: Retrospective interventional cohort. METHODS: Setting: Single tertiary referral h…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the scientific contribution of Brazilian Spine Surgeons not only in number of publications but also in their quality between January 2000 to December 2011. METHODS: A literature search of publications by Brazilian spinal surgeons on topics concerning the spine or spinal cord was performed using an…

UNLABELLED: Lung transplantation is deemed to be the only effective therapy that improves survival for patients with end stage lung disease. The aim of our study was to examine the progress achieved over the last two decades and to demonstrate the effectiveness and safety of this treatment. METHODS: A retrospective an…

BACKGROUND: Pain clinics provide interdisciplinary therapy to treat chronic pain patients and to increase the return-to-work rate. In recent years and due to increased economic pressure in health care, a change in the management of pain in Austrian health care centers has been observed. For the analysis of the current…

BACKGROUND: The last nationwide survey of Kawasaki disease in Japan was conducted in 2003; the epidemiologic features of the disease in Japan since then are unknown. METHODS: All the hospitals with a pediatric department and a bed capacity of > or =100, or hospitals having a bed capacity of <100 but specializing in pe…

New cases of Chinese people with the AIDS virus grew by more than 40% in 1999, with women increasingly at risk, the newspaper of China's Health Ministry reported on March 29, 2000. Health experts detected 4677 new cases of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS and last year a 41.5% rise over 1998, the Health News said. It re…

One hundred and forty-eight patients over the age of 12 years seen from July 1972 through December 1980 were accepted for this review of minimal change glomerular disease (MCGD). The diagnosis was based on a typical clinical presentation, and renal biopsy findings. MCGD forms 43.5 per cent of our patients with idiopath…

The livelihood of the urban and rural population continued to improve last year, when the average consumption/person reached 224 yuan, according to the latest data released by the State Statisitical Bureau. The bureau, which is responsible for the collection, compilation, and analysis of economic and social statistics,…

BACKGROUND: This paper assesses the accuracy of self-reported dates of last mammograms from a postal survey compared to dates of mammograms in medical records. METHODS: The subjects included women 50 years of age and older who were members of a local health maintenance organization, had reported ever having a mammogra…

AIM: To analyze the clinical spectrum of urogenital tuberculosis (TB) in children from 1993-1997 to 2013-2017, who were treated at the FSCU "Kiritsy". MATERIALS AND METHODS: Clinical forms of urogenital tuberculosis were diagnosed in 195 children (stage 1) and 158 children (stage 2). Conventional methods of TB diagnos…

OBJECTIVE: To present our experience in managing tumors in undescended testes (UDT) in the last 15&#xa0;years at our institute, in an attempt to understand the tumor behavior and the optimum approach to management in these patients. METHODS: This is a retrospective review of all patients with tumors in UDT who had reg…

PURPOSE: To examine trends in female authorship in the journal Emergency Radiology from January 1994 to December 2014. METHODS: We obtained institutional review board approval for our study. We retrospectively reviewed a total of 1617 articles published in the journal Emergency Radiology over a 20-year period. Origina…

CONTEXT: Migrant workers constitute an important risk group for Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immuno-Deficiency Syndrome transmission in India. Alcohol consumption before sexual intercourse has been postulated to influence condom use practices. This study aimed to assess this association with regard to non-spou…

AIM: This cross-sectional analysis investigates how neuromotor functions of two independent cohorts of approximately 45- and 65-year-old individuals are different from 18-year-old adolescents using the Zurich Neuromotor Assessment-2 (ZNA-2). METHODS: A total of 186 individuals of the Zurich Longitudinal Studies (ZLS)…

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Children and adolescents with cerebral palsy (CP) often experience associated functional limitations, diseases, or impairments. Included in these associated concerns are mental health symptoms/disorders and academic concerns. There has been an increasing research focus on the mental health of you…

There are significant racial and ethnic disparities in the incidence and survival of patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Understanding the discrepancies in enrollment in randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is important for better informing access to care and clinical trial conduct. We systematically reviewed th…

Over the previous decades, twinning rates worldwide have increased remarkably. This study aimed to describe changes in multiple birth rates and related demographic characteristics, such as maternal age and the level of education of parents in South Korea from 1981 to 2019. This study analyzed birth data obtained from t…

This study was conducted to investigate marriage and fertility in long-term survivors with high-grade bone and soft tissue tumors following chemotherapy. We reviewed issues related to fertility in 47 patients (24 men and 23 women) who had survived for >5 years. The median age at diagnosis was 18.0&#xb1;8.9 years and th…

INTRODUCTION: The social, medical and demographic changes of our population and the increase in the number of patients on waiting lists have led to some changes in the selection criteria of organ donors. MATERIAL AND METHOD: A retrospective, descriptive and comparative study of the liver cadaveric donors features acce…