PURPOSE To review 7 patients with advanced osteoarticular tuberculous arthritis of the ankle who underwent arthrodesis using a supracondylar femoral nail. METHODS All patients showed gross destruction of the articular cartilage of the tibiotalar joint with severe periarticular rarefaction on radiographs. Their pre- and one-year post-operative Foot and Ankle Outcome Scores (FAOS) were compared...

with exception, of course, of the more detailed medical examination, which would be of no service to those for whom the book is written. Recent advances in treatment are included, and comprise collapse therapy and all its difficulties, as well as the more general treatment of the sanatorium. Chapters on tuberculosis in children, tuberculosis of bones and joints, and a general administrative cha...

I.V. Shutikhina, PhD, Head of the laboratory of Diagnostic Methods of Examination in Phthisiology of the Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology1; Y.A. Tsybulskaya, PhD Student, Department of Radiodiagnostics, Institute of Professional Education1; S.V. Smerdin, MD, DSc, Professor, Director of the Research Institute of Phthisiopulmonology1; N.V. Selyukova, Rentgenologist, University Clinical H...

In this paper, various microstructures of Ce2(WO4)3 and Ce10W22O81 were prepared by applying a hydrothermal synthesis, in a ligand-free environment, and in the presence of a dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate (DSS) surfactant, after which the materials were heat treated at a temperature of 900 °C. Depending on the ratio of cerium ions to sodium tungstate, as well as the reaction pH, two different ce...

Abstract. Band structure and optical properties of defectChalcopyrite type semiconductor ZnIn2Te4 have been studied by TB-LMTO first principle technique. The optical absorption calculation suggest that ZnIn2Te4 is a direct-gap semiconductor having a band gap of 1.40 eV., which confirms the experimentally measured value. The calculated complex dielectric-function ǫ(E) = ǫ1(E)+ iǫ2(E) reveal dist...

The region of the Au-Zn phase diagram encompassing γ-brass-type phases has been studied experimentally from 45 to 85 atom % Zn. The γ phases were obtained directly from the pure elements by heating to 680 °C in evacuated silica tubes, followed by annealing at 300 °C. Powder X-ray and single-crystal diffraction studies show that γ-"Au(5)Zn(8)" phases adopt a rhombohedrally distorted Cr(5)Al(8) s...

The European Surveillance System (TESSy) molecular surveillance service (MSS) was launched in late November 2012. This new service enables European Union and European Economic Area countries to upload detailed molecular typing data for Salmonella, Listeria, E. coli (VTEC/STEC) and multidrug-resistant M. tuberculosis (MDR-TB) to the MSS database, hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevent...

BACKGROUND Random survival forest (RSF) models have been identified as alternative methods to the Cox proportional hazards model in analysing time-to-event data. These methods, however, have been criticised for the bias that results from favouring covariates with many split-points and hence conditional inference forests for time-to-event data have been suggested. Conditional inference forests (...

Crucial to finding and treating the 4 million tuberculosis (TB) patients currently missed by national TB programmes, TB stigma is receiving well-deserved and long-delayed attention at the global level. However, the ability to measure and evaluate the success of TB stigma-reduction efforts is limited by the need for additional tools. At a 2016 TB stigma-measurement meeting held in The Hague, The...