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BACKGROUND Anemia is a common complication of epidermolysis bullosa (EB). To date, no extensive data on the prevalence of anemia in EB patients have been well characterized worldwide. OBJECTIVE To determine and to characterize the prevalence of anemia in the Australian EB population by conducting a retrospective cross-sectional study. METHODS All (n = 368) EB patients registered in the Aust...
OBJECTIVES To analyze the frequency and type of benign orofacial lesions submitted for diagnosis at Tripoli Medical Centre over 17 years period (1997-2013). MATERIALS AND METHODS Entries for specimens from patients were retrieved and compiled into 9 diagnostic categories and 82 diagnoses. RESULTS During the 17 years period, a total of 975 specimens were evaluated, it comprised a male-female...
INTRODUCTION There is much literature devoted to the problem of drug resistance and decreased susceptibility of fungi to commonly used antifungals. AIM To analyze drug susceptibility of Candida albicans and non-Candida albicans strains isolated from the hands of people without any symptoms of disease over a 16-year period. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study included a total of 1,274 Candida-ty...
OBJECTIVE To determine whether a cluster of eight cancers among 572 women who had received transcervical quinacrine hydrochloride was a random occurrence or evidence of an increased risk of cancer. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study using interviews and reviews of medical records. Cancer cases were evaluated using cohort analyses and space-time cluster methods. SETTING Santiago and Valdivia,...
We aimed to identify clinical predictors of long-term response to abiraterone (defined as >12 months drug exposure) in a retrospective cohort of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer patients treated in post-docetaxel setting at 24 Italian centers. The Cox proportional hazards model was used to analyze the association between clinical features and the duration of drug exposure. Result...
OBJECTIVES The irrational use of reserved antimicrobials, such as ceftriaxone, is one of the global public health issues particularly to low income countries like Ethiopia, leading to high costs of treatment or therapeutic failure. The purpose of the present study, thus, is to evaluate the appropriateness of ceftriaxone utilization in the medicine wards of general hospitals in Addis Ababa, with...
In the African meningitis belt the importance of endemic meningitis is not as well recognized as that of epidemics of meningococcal meningitis that occur from time to time. Using retrospective surveillance, we identified a total of 7078 cases of laboratory-diagnosed bacterial meningitis in Niamey, Niger, from 1981 to 1996. The majority (57.7%) were caused by Neisseria meningitidis, followed by ...
BACKGROUND Childhood burns are a global health problem. To date, no epidemiological study with a large sample size of hospitalized pediatric burn patients from the Chinese mainland has been conducted. This study retrospectively analyzed pediatric burn cases to identify the characteristics of pediatric burns and their risk factors in China. METHODS Data for pediatric burn inpatients younger th...
BACKGROUND In recent years, the increased efficacy and effectiveness of antiretroviral treatment has led to longer survival of patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but has also raised the question of what happens to consumption of resources. Early highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART), management of hepatitis C virus (HCV) coinfection, and expensive newly marketed...
BACKGROUND Ectopic pregnancy is one of the most common life threatening complications in the first trimester of pregnancy having significant adverse effects on future pregnancy outcome, particularly if salpingectomy is used as the modality of treatment. So medical management is now advocated. For that, cases need to be diagnosed at an earlier stage. Keeping these backgrounds in mind we took up ...
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