Abstract Background Surgery is the curative therapy for patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC). In determining extent of surgery, risk complications should be considered. The aim this study was to assess procedure-specific outcomes and factors after surgery MTC. Methods Patients who underwent MTC were identified in two European prospective quality databases. Hypoparathyroidism defined ...

The level of fat in the livers of young rats fed a 9 per cent casein-sucrose diet containing choline and the other known lipotropic agents is markedly decreased when additional threonine (0.18 to 0.36 per cent) is included in the diet (1, 2). Harper et al. (3) also found that the deposition of liver fat was reduced when the low protein diet was supplemented with a high level (1 to 1.5 per cent)...

BACKGROUND Morbidity and mortality following perforated peptic ulcer (PPU) remain substantial. Surgical delay is a well established negative prognostic factor, but evidence derives from studies with a high risk of bias. The aim of the present nationwide cohort study was to evaluate the adjusted effect of hourly surgical delay on survival after PPU. METHODS This was a cohort study including al...

British sheep farmers were invited to complete a questionnaire about the impact of Schmallenberg virus (SBV) on animal health, welfare and their own emotional wellbeing during the 2011-2012 lambing season, through Defra and Farming Industry websites, letters to farmers who had requested SBV laboratory tests and advertisement at Sheep 2012. The 494 responders included SBV confirmed (positive by ...

Reasons for tooth loss is a crude index o f the dental health of a community, and was determined in a sample o f 600 Blacks on the Witwatersrand. Dental caries with or with­ out concurrent pathology was responsible for 67 per cent of tooth loss, periodontal disease for 19 per cent, trauma for 5 per cent, impacted teeth for 3 per cent and prosthetic reasons for 2 per cent. Dental caries was the ...

Experience with the first 100 cases with tetralogy of Fallot subjected to intracardiae repair are presented. In this series there was an early hospital mortality of 12 per cent and 6 late deaths occurred. Eighty out of 82 survivors were available for follow-up and 33 of these underwent postoperative catheterization studies. The functional status of the survivors revealed excellent results in 89...