Background and Purpose—There is a lack of modern-day data quantifying the effect of transient ischemic attack (TIA) on survival, and recent data do not take into account expected survival. Methods—Data for 22 157 adults hospitalized with a TIA from July 1, 2000, to June 30, 2007, in New South Wales, Australia, were linked with registered deaths to June 30, 2009. We estimated survival relative t...

INTRODUCTION The objective of this study was to investigate standardised relative survival and mortality ratio for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer at our institution. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between 1995 and 2010, a total of 1,350 consecutive patients underwent radical prostatectomy. Patients were followed prospectively per protocol. No patients were lost ...

For a linear combination ∑ uj Xj of random variables, we are interested in the partial derivatives of its α-quantile Qα(u) regarded as a function of the weight vector u = (uj). It turns out that under suitable conditions on the joint distribution of (Xj) the derivatives exist and coincide with the conditional expectations of the Xi given that ∑ uj Xj takes the value Qα(u). Moreover, using this ...

from 1986 to 1996, 1020 renal transplants were performed at our center. the purposes of this study were. 1) to evaluate the patient and graft survival rates and 2) to see if some donors and recipient characteristics such as age, sex and relationship had any effects on graft survivals. 571 transplants were from living related donors (lrd) and 446 from living unrelated donors (lud). 65.9% of reci...

background: breast cancer arising in young patients (≤ 40 years) is being considered as a distinct clinical entity with more aggressive tumor features and poorer survival. our aim was to assess the impact of age on survival among a large group of iranian women diagnosed with breast cancer. methods: in a cross-sectional study, demographic and clinicopathological characteristics of patients with ...