Background: One of the most common symptoms of COVID-19 infection is Olfactory Dysfunction (OD). Objectives: This study aims to investigate OD and phantosmia in COVID-19 cases from northern Iran. Materials & Methods: In this cross-sectional study, participants were 400 patients with COVID-19 infection in Rasht, Iran from March 2019 to September 2020. All the patients were evaluated in terms o...

U na{em ispitivanju izmjerili smo titar protutijela protiv tetanusnog toksina u serumu 437 osoba srednje i starije dobi iz gradske i seoske sredine u Koprivni~ko-kri`eva~koj `upaniji. Ispitanici su bili u dobi od 45 do 95 godina. Dvije tre}ine ispitanika bile su `ene (66 %). Veliki postotak ispitanika (39,1%) nije znao da li je i kada je cijepljen protiv tetanusa. Tra`eni minimalni za{titni tit...

Patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) frequently have other abdominal pathologies of surgical interest (other diseases, OD). Out of 1,375 elective open aortic replacements for AAA, 315 cases with OD were subdivided in Group 1 (82 patients with "clean wound" OD) and Group 2 (233 patients with "clean-contaminated wound" OD). The results of the sub-groups in which OD was treated at the sam...

BACKGROUND Oropharyngeal dysphagia (OD) is an underdiagnosed digestive disorder that causes severe nutritional and respiratory complications. Our aim was to determine the accuracy of the Eating Assessment Tool (EAT-10) and the Volume-Viscosity Swallow Test (V-VST) for clinical evaluation of OD. METHODS We studied 120 patients with swallowing difficulties and 14 healthy subjects. OD was evalua...

Adresa za dopisivanje Dr. Joycelyn Eigbobo College of Health Sciences, University Of Port Harcourt Department of Child Dental Health, 500001 Port Harcourt, Nigeria [email protected] Sažetak Svrha: Željelo se dobiti odontometrijske podatke u trima dimenzijama – meziodisalnoj i bukolingvalnoj širini, te visini kliničke krune u mliječnoj denticiji kod nigerijske djece. Materijali i metode: Uzor...

BACKGROUND Multiple daily dosing may be negatively associated with patient medication adherence; however, adherence-related data are lacking in a patient population with venous thromboembolism (VTE). OBJECTIVE To assess the adherence rates between once-daily (OD) and twice-daily (BID) dosing regimens of chronic medications in patients with VTE. METHODS We analyzed the PharMetrics Integrated...

PURPOSE To compare the antiemetic combination of palonosetron, dexamethasone, and aprepitant (PDA) with antiemetic combination of ondansetron and dexamethasone (OD) in head and neck cancer patients receiving docetaxel, carboplatin, and 5-FU based chemotherapy. METHODS Sixty previously untreated patients were randomly divided into two groups of thirty patients each. The PDA group received a co...

Female calves (n = 108) were assigned to 6 cold milk feeding treatments in two experiments for a 70-day period. Live-weight (LW) was measured weekly, with an additional LW taken at day 410 and post-calving for animals in experiment 1. In Experiment 1, the effect of feeding frequency and age of turnout to pasture on calf performance and 1st lactation milk yields were evaluated. The whole milk (W...

background: the main goal was to evaluate the attitudes and knowledge of zoroastrians living in iran towards oocyte donation (od) and embryo donation (ed) program. methods: this cross sectional study consisted of 318 zoroastrians (n=175 for od and n=143 for ed) of both sexes. the questionnaire form comprised two parts of general demographic characteristics of the participants and twenty multipl...