Orthognathic surgery is treatment which often leads to great improvement in function and appearance, but is demanding to the patient, considerable resources are being spent, and risks for unwanted side effects are involved. Because of the elective nature of the treatment it is particularly important that the patient is well informed about all aspects of the provision and outcome of treatment be...

PURPOSE To study the long-term visual outcome of primary microtropia. METHODS A retrospective review was made on 31 patients with primary microtropia with the follow-up period of 5 years or more (5-15 years, mean=9.2 years) seen during 16 years from 1985 to 2000 at Okayama University Hospital. The patients were 16 boys and 15 girls, with the age at the initial visit ranging from 5 to 16 years...

OBJECTIVE To determine the long-term outcome of neonatal bacterial meningitis and the relationship between the outcome and specific features in the acute stage of the disease; and to compare the outcome between infants with neonatal meningitis and high-risk infants without meningitis. DESIGN Prospective clinical evaluations of 21 survivors of meningitis and 21 matched controls who were retros...

Over a 25 year period, 31 asthmatic children received artificial ventilation for acute asthma at Alder Hey Children's Hospital on 48 occasions. Altogether 47 episodes occurred from 1971-89, with no decline in the number of episodes per year (mean 2.5) over this period. Eight children died during intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV), and of the 23 survivors, three further children h...

Understanding the importance of dietary fat has grown beyond energy metabolism to recognition of the complex roles of fatty acids, particularly the ω-6 and ω-3 fatty acids in membrane lipids, inter- and intracellular communication and in regulating gene expression. The ω-6 and ω-3 fatty acids accumulated in developing tissues depend on the fatty acids transported across the placenta and secrete...

BACKGROUND Currently, there are limited data available describing the long-term outcomes of chest trauma survivors. Here, the authors sought to describe chest trauma survivor outcomes 6 months and 1 yr after discharge from the intensive care unit, paying special attention to pulmonary outcomes. METHODS A cohort of 105 multiple trauma patients with blunt chest trauma admitted to the intensive ...

Few studies focused on the long-term outcome of Dravet syndrome in adulthood are available in the literature, but all are concordant. In this article, we consider the outcomes of 24 patients followed at the Centre Saint-Paul, Marseille, up to the age of 50, and compare them to the patients reported in the literature. Five patients (20.8%) died, at a mean age of 24.8 years, one by status epilept...

BACKGROUND Since bulimia nervosa's introduction to the psychiatric nomenclature in 1979, data concerning long-term outcome have been largely unavailable. METHODS Women with the diagnosis of bulimia nervosa between 1981 and 1987 who participated in 1 of 2 studies were located and invited to participate in follow-up assessments. RESULTS More than 80% of the women from these studies participat...

Over the past four decades increasingly effective cancer therapies have been developed, involving surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. With an 60% 5-year relative survival for cancer patients (all sites combined) the prevalence of long-term cancer survivors (‡5 years after diagnosis) is 3% [1]. In Europe, patients with breast cancer dominate among 10-year survivors, followed by survivors aft...