Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, United States of America. Electronic address: jtrimis@usc.edu.
Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI-School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Department of Epidemiology, GROW-School for Oncology and Developmental Biology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, 6211 LK Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Thromboelastography (TEG) is usually used to monitor coagulation disorder clinically. It is unclear whether TEG has association with urosepsis and sepsis-induced coagulopathy (SIC). The purpose of thi...
Neutrophilic eccrine hidradenitis (NEH) is a benign neutrophilic dermatosis not well recognized beyond an association with malignancy. Although the disease is commonly reported in adults with malignan...
A retrospective study was performed of adult and pediatric patients diagnosed with NEH at three Mayo Clinic sites from January 1, 1992, to January 1, 2022. The aim of this study was to elucidate risk ...
Of 47 patients identified, 33 had either histologic or clinical confirmation of the diagnosis; 21 were adults (64%), and 12 were children (36%). Most adults (16/21; 76%) had underlying malignancy and ...
Among adults, NEH is commonly associated with malignancy and chemotherapy. Among children, idiopathic NEH occurs primarily after overexertion, and malignancy is highly unlikely to be the cause of NEH....
Hair thread tourniquet syndrome (HTS) is a pediatric condition in which human hair or synthetic fiber encircles and strangulates a body appendage causing tissue necrosis. Few epidemiologic studies hav...
Medical records of all infants up to 1 year old seen in the orthopedic emergency department of Galilee Medical Center were searched for the diagnosis of HTS or its ICD equivalent....
Forty-one cases of hair tourniquet syndrome (HTS) were reviewed. Most cases (68%) occurred during the winter months (December to February). There were no reports between June to August (summer). The m...
HTS in our population is a phenomenon that seems to occur mostly in winter. Infants between 3 and 5 months are at greater risk. Toes are more affected than fingers. The most involved toes are the 3rd ...
although rare, gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) are the most common mesenchymal tumors of the digestive tract. The aim of this work is to study the clinical, paraclinical, therapeutic and evolut...
we conducted a descriptive retrospective, monocentric study (April 2017-April 2021) collecting data from the medical records of all patients with GIST treated at the medical oncology department of the...
we collected data from the medical records of 23 patients, with a median age of 54.4 years, sex ratio 1.8, over a period of 4 years. Abdominal pain was the most frequent symptom (78.3%, n=18); 47.8% o...
the diagnosis of GIST is mainly based on histology and immunohistochemistry, which is often not performed by our pathologists. Molecular biology makes it possible to predict the prognosis and conseque...
Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) guidelines suggest surveillance colonoscopy should be carefully considered after age 75. The authors noted a cluster of patients presenting in their 8th and 9th decade of l...
A 7-year retrospective analysis was performed of patients who underwent a colonoscopy aged between 71 and 75 years in the period between 2006 and 2012. Kaplan-Meier graphs were created with survival m...
A total of 623 patients met inclusion criteria; 461 (74%) had no indication for surveillance colonoscopy and 162 (26%) had an indication. Of the 162 patients with an indication, 91 (56.2%) underwent s...
This study found one quarter of patients who had a colonoscopy between the ages of 71-75 had an indication for surveillance colonoscopy. Most patients with a new CRC underwent surgery. This study sugg...
In box genioplasty it is possible to advance, retrude, impact, and elongate, as well as to correct asymmetry. The aim of this study was to analyse the stability of box genioplasty as part of orthognat...
Heterotopic pregnancy (HP) is a rare but potentially life-threatening event with a high risk of maternal death, which also jeopardise the coexisting intrauterine pregnancy (IUP), thus an early accurat...
World over studies are being done by different group of workers to understand the time of deliveries conducted. Surprisingly majority of deliveries were following a pattern, seasonally. Today in this ...
Present study conducted on semen quality included 12,408 semen samples collected from different laboratories of Bangalore city during 8 years (2000-2007) period of time and were analysed season wise....
Results showed sperm concentration was significantly lower in monsoon than in winter season. Humidity and pressure influenced sperm count. Forward moving sperms were influenced by temperature and pres...
The study concludes the change in birth rates seen during different season in a year is due to the quality of semen responsible for conception....
Salmonellosis represents a considerable health, social and economic burden in both high- and low-income countries. Recently, in Portugal, most cases of Salmonella infections have been reported in chil...
The authors performed a descriptive study using retrospective analysis of cases of salmonellosis, in pediatric age, at a Portuguese Level II Hospital, between January 2015 and July 2020....
The population included a total of 63 children, of which 81% were Portuguese. Ethnicity was identified in 13 children, most of whom were African. The median age at diagnosis was four years old (3.5 - ...
Given the obtained results, we intend to improve knowledge on salmonellosis in Portugal and, consequently improve prevention strategies, treatment and its notification. Although the incidence of salmo...