OBJECTIVE To compare current revascularisation practice and outcome in diabetic and non-diabetic patients presenting with critical limb ischaemia (CLI) to a single vascular surgeon. METHODS Data for 113 patients presenting with CLI were collected prospectively over a 3-year period. Forty-four (39%) were diabetic. Treatment was classified as percutaneous angioplasty, arterial reconstruction, p...

PURPOSE To assess the toxicity and efficacy of chemoembolization and bland embolization in patients with neuroendocrine tumor metastases to the liver. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 67 patients underwent 219 embolization procedures: 23 patients received primarily bland embolization with PVA with or without iodized oil and 44 primarily received chemoembolization with cisplatin, doxorubicin, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the outcome in children perinatally infected with HIV-1 whose mothers received zidovudine (ZDV) monotherapy in pregnancy. DESIGN Observational retrospective study of a prospectively recruited cohort. SETTING Italian Register for HIV Infection in Children. PATIENTS A group of 216 children perinatally infected with HIV-1, born in 1992-1997 and derived prospectively ...

BACKGROUND A phase II trial was performed to evaluate the efficacy of a dose-dense, 7 days on/7 days off schedule of temozolomide for patients with recurrent high-grade gliomas (HGG). METHODS Sixty patients with recurrent HGG received temozolomide at 150 mg/m(2)/day on days 1-7 and days 15-21 during each 4-week cycle. The primary endpoint was 6-month progression-free survival (PFS-6), with a ...

OBJECTIVE Breastfeeding Friendly Primary Care Initiative comprises educational activities focused on primary care units. The To evaluate the effectiveness of a strategy on breastfeeding promotion to the Family Health Program team. METHODS A controlled intervention study was performed with 20 family health care teams randomly selected into intervention and control group in Montes Claros, South...

Objective To determine the effect of postoperative hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy (HAIC) on long-term survival of patients with pancreatic cancer (PC) after radical pancreatectomy. Methods A total of 87 patients with PC underwent radical pancreatectomy in the First People's Hospital affiliated to Huzhou Normal College between June 2008 and May 2013. Among these patients, after surgery...

Purpose To identify quantitative imaging biomarkers at fluorine 18 ((18)F) positron emission tomography (PET) for predicting distant metastasis in patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and Methods In this institutional review board-approved HIPAA-compliant retrospective study, the pretreatment (18)F fluorodeoxyglucose PET images in 101 patients treated with ste...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the relationship between postoperative prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels and biochemical recurrence (BCR) after radical prostatectomy, especially in patients with positive surgical margins (PSMs). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 144 patients who underwent radical prostatectomies performed by a single surgeon without any neoadjuvant or adjuvant treatment were analy...

BACKGROUND The survival benefit of a strategy of coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG) added to guideline-directed medical therapy, as compared with medical therapy alone, in patients with coronary artery disease, heart failure, and severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction remains unclear. METHODS From July 2002 to May 2007, a total of 1212 patients with an ejection fraction of 35% or le...

Objective—To identify predictors for the safe use of antibiotic treatment without reoperation in patients with prosthetic valve endocarditis. Setting—Retrospective study in a tertiary care centre. Subjects and design—All 49 episodes of definite prosthetic valve endocarditis (Duke criteria) diagnosed at one institution between 1980 to 1997 were analysed. Ten episodes (20%) were treated with anti...