To determine the rate of appearance of new nodules during a specified period, a follow-up study on onchocercomas that had been removed was carried out in San Vicente Pacaya, Guatemala, between June 1976 and April 1977. Incidence rate, or rate of nodules appearing in initially negative subjects, was studied in relation to the degree of endemicity. Rates in a period of 7—8months in high, medium...

1 (http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/special/CLIA/index.html; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25255365). Author's note: I have written this anonymously because I do not want harm to come to those who helped me get my results. It is my hope that my travails will call attention to the fact that patient access to what one has a right to know about oneself is not necessarily str...

There are essentially two principal end points in cerebrosvascular regulation: maintenance of an adequate supply of blood and energy-yielding substra tes to the brain, despite the imposition of physiological or pathological stresses such as hypoxemia or reduced perfusion pressure, and precise and rapid coupling of regional cerebral bload flow (CBF) to changes in neuronal r equ i r emen t s 3 2 ...

Large-cell retroperitoneal lymphoma was partially resected including a long segment of ureter. The proximal end of the ureter was clipped during surgery. A percutaneous nephrostomy was inserted after 48 h. Adjuvant chemotherapy was then delivered and the kidney was autotransplanted to the contralateral iliac fossa. Salvage of a hydronephrotic functioning kidney by nephrostomy and delayed contra...

Uterine fibroids are benign tumors occurring in 20-50% of women in their reproductive age. They are the most Abstracts of the 12th Royan International Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine frequent indication for hysterectomy at Pre-menopausal age. Fifty percent of fibroids are asymptomatic and require no treatment, but the rest may cause menorrhagia, dysmenorrhoea, dyspareunia, abdominal disten...

As a young resident doctor at France’s Hôpitaux de Paris in the 1970s, Philippe Sansonetti saw a lot of patients with infectious diseases, such as typhoid, whooping cough, and leprosy. Sansonetti and his colleagues treated those patients with antibiotics. By that point, however, the first signs of antibiotic resistance were beginning to emerge. Sansonetti realized that treating infectious disea...

WAYNER, M. J., JR. AND R. EMMERS. Sf&al synaptic delay in young and aged rats. Am. J. Physiol. 194(2): 403405. q#.-Synaptic delays for the monosynaptic flexor hallucis longus reflex were measured in II~-, 276-, 449 and 822-day-old rats. The mean synaptic delays were 0.97, 1.14, 1.23 and I .36 msec. Afferent conduction velocity was approximately the same in young (66.1 m/set.) and old (56.9 m/se...

Three individualswith a substance use disorder enter an inpatient 12-step program in a communitymental health center and for the first month of the program, all 3 individuals are abstinent. They are then discharged from inpatient treatment and return for face-toface follow-up interviews at 14, 30, and 90 days postdischarge. At the latest postdischarge measure, it is observed that 1 individual d...

WAYNER, M. J., JR. AND R. EMMERS. Sf&al synaptic delay in young and aged rats. Am. J. Physiol. 194(2): 403405. q#.-Synaptic delays for the monosynaptic flexor hallucis longus reflex were measured in II~-, 276-, 449 and 822-day-old rats. The mean synaptic delays were 0.97, 1.14, 1.23 and I .36 msec. Afferent conduction velocity was approximately the same in young (66.1 m/set.) and old (56.9 m/se...

Background: Percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy (PDT) is increasingly popular within intensive care units for patients who need prolonged ventilatory support. Significant complications are rare. Case presentation: Our patient suffered tracheal ring fracture and early tracheomalacia following this procedure. These complications are demonstrated in our accompanying video. Conclusion: Contrary ...