PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the quality of life (QOL) experienced by long-term survivors of cervical cancer and the factors that promoted their adaptation. DESIGN Qualitative. SETTING Homes and offices in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 19 women diagnosed with cervical cancer from 1975-1995. METHODS Semistructured interviews were tape recorded. Interviewers asked the participa...

Three case histories of patients with isolated traumatic tricuspid regurgitation are reported. Clinical features are compared and contrasted to the I3 cases previously reported. The benign nature of the lesion is emphasized by the long-term follow-up periods of 39, I3, and 31 years respectively. The presence of a normal systolic pressure in the right ventricle may be one reason why isolated sev...

OBJECTIVE To examine the long term survival of critically ill patients admitted to an intensive therapy unit and to ascertain the effects of age, severity of illness, and diagnostic category at admission on survival. DESIGN Retrospective observational study with prospectively gathered data on all patients admitted to the unit between June 1985 and July 1987 and followed up until 1 January 198...

In a series of 404 consecutive first cadaver kidney transplants performed since 1967 the actuarial five- and 10-year survival of patients were 61% and 47% respectively and of grafts 46% and 36%. In more than four-fifths of the patients surviving these intervals the original cadaveric grafts were functioning at these times, and most of the remainder were sustained by subsequent grafts. Although ...