CASE REPORT T his 48-year.old man was in good health until April 1988, when he noted the onset of exertional chest pain. One month later, he underwent cardiac catheterization, which revealed a totally occluded left circumflex coronary artery. His only risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease was cigarette use. He underwent successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty ...

AIMS To evaluate the frequency of urinary tract infection in patients with suprapubic cystostomy and other complications of the procedure within 30 days of placement. METHODS Patients characteristics, indication and types of cystostomy and short term (within 30 days); complications were analyzed in 91 patients. Urine analysis and culture was done in all patients to exclude those with urinary ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether short-term complications of prematurity are affected by intrauterine myelomeningocele repair. METHODS Medical records of the first 100 infants undergoing intrauterine myelomeningocele repair (IUMR) at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center were reviewed. Infants born at <34 weeks' gestation were identified. Two controls were identified for each IUMR infant. Co...

Study Design Retrospective study. Objective Anterior fixation of odontoid fracture has been associated with high morbidity and mortality in small, single institution series. Identifying risk factors may improve risk stratification and highlight factors that could be optimized preoperatively. The objective of this study was to determine the 30-day complication rate following anterior fixation ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate 30-day postoperative complications of open reduction and internal fixation [ORIF] and total elbow arthroplasty [TEA] for the treatment of distal humerus fractures in elderly patients using a validated national database. METHODS Review of the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) Database identified all elderly patients (>65 ...

background: patellar mal tracking is responsible for pain and disability in patellofemoral pain syndrome (pfps). patellar kinesio taping may have different effects on short and long term usage. the aim of this study is to compare the effect of short term and long term patellar kinesio taping in patellar position on women with patellofemoral pain syndrome using magnetic resonance imaging (mri). ...

Hesselman, S. 2017. Caesarean Section. Shortand long-term maternal complications. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1358. 61 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0041-2. Caesarean section is a common major surgical procedure and long-term complications have not been fully investigated. By longitudinal population based r...

objective: administration of amoxicillin and metronidazole along with scaling and root planning (srp) is an effective adjunctive therapy for chronic periodontitis. studies have shown that administration of azithromycin is also effective for treatment of chronic periodontitis. this study aimed to compare the effect of short-term and long-term azithromycin regimen with amoxicillin and metronidazo...

objective: the abdominal sacrocolpopexy is the standard method of vaginal prolapse correction and posterior intravaginal slingplasty (pivs) is a newer procedure with minimal invasiveness. this study compares the effectiveness and complications of these two surgical methods. materials and methods: in this non randomized clinical trial study, which was conducted in imam khomeini hospital, tehran,...