BACKGROUND A review of a single physician's experience in managing over 831 infant ear deformities (488 patients) is presented. METHODS The authors' methods of molding have advanced from the use of various tapes, glues, and stents, to a comprehensive yet simple system that shapes the antihelix, the triangular fossa, the helical rim, and the overly prominent conchal-mastoid angle (EarWell Infa...

Nineteen percent of the approximately 30,000 members of the Yale community aged 18 through 59 received swine influenza monovalent vaccine (A/New Jersey/1976) during the three days of a mass immunization program in Nov. 1976. Based on 1508 card questionnaires received, 71.2 percent of the vaccine recipients experienced a sore arm, 23.4 percent headache, 13.4 percent chilliness, and 9.7 percent f...

Rwanda: Primary energy supply is dominated by biomass resources in Rwanda. Wood supplies about 57 percent directly and wood for charcoal 23 percent, while agricultural residues and peat provide 6 percent and petroleum products 11 percent. Only 5 percent of the country’s population are connected to the electricity grid, with 3 percent of these being in the rural areas and 25 percent in the urban...

Pulmonary arterial pressure-flow relation was studied in 142 patients with artrial septal defect (ASD) and was compared with that of 139 patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and was compared with that of ductus arteriosus (PDA). The incidence of pulmonary arterial mean pressure (PAm) over 25 mmHg was 21 percent in ASD, 36 percent in VSD and 43 percent in PDA, and that over 40 mmHg was ...

BACKGROUND Ineffective erythropoiesis is the hallmark of myelodysplastic syndromes. Management of the anemia caused by ineffective erythropoiesis is difficult. In patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and symptomatic anemia, we evaluated the safety and hematologic activity of lenalidomide, a novel analogue of thalidomide. METHODS Forty-three patients with transfusion-dependent or symptomati...

AIM The aim of the present study was to compare the removal of the smear layer and exposure of collagen fibers of the root surface following the application of five citric acid solution concentrations. METHODS AND MATERIALS Two hundred seventy (270) samples were equally divided into six groups (n=45) for treatment with saline solution (control) and five different concentrations of citric acid...

In this study, 100 Candida specimens that isolated from different sources which apply to the Faculty of Medicine University Gaziantep Bacteriology Laboratory between 25.l l .1994-31.07.1995 were identi:fied. Specimens identified by means microscopic examination and carbonhydrate fermentation ürease test germ tüh assay. Results 80 percent (80 %) C.albicans, 8 (8 %), C.Torulopsis glabrata, 6 (6 C...

Four containerized deciduous ornamental shrubs [deutzia (Deutzia gracilis L.), silverleaf dogwood (Cornus nlba 'Elegantissima'), red-osier dogwood (Cornus sericea L.), and ninebark (Physocarpirs optilifolius L.)] were grown during each of two separate growing seasons using 12 different immature (nonaged) composts as media (year one, 12 weeks from start of windrowing; year two, 16-weeks) and als...