BACKGROUND The provision of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to migrant populations raises particular challenges with respect to ensuring adequate treatment support, adherence, and retention in care. We assessed rates of loss to follow-up for migrant workers compared with non-migrant workers in a routine treatment programme in Morjia, Lesotho. DESIGN All adult patients (≥18 years) initiating ART ...

Correspondence to: Dr Paul R Roberts, Southampton University Hospital, Tremona Road, Southampton. SO16 6YD, UK; [email protected]. uk _________________________ P acemaker implantation is only the initial phase in the lifelong management of the patient with a pacemaker. The challenge of this treatment lies in the comprehensive follow up of the device. As the number of implanted devices...

Abstract Human breast milk, infant formula, and follow-up milks were tested by a commercial electronic tongue (αAstree, Alpha MOS) with the aim to determine taste diversity, since it has been recently shown that infants exposed different tastes early in life, develop food preference at later age. milk (36 samples) obtained from 13 lactating women, while 12 samples of formula 14 Croatian market ...

Editor, Van Brakel et aI. have recently made a strong case for using the EHF score (Eye-Hand-Foot score) as a means of monitoring changes in impairment status in individuais or groups of people over time. lt would provide at least a crude measure of the effectiveness of prevention of impairment activities . ! It is a simple score, the components of which are already collected in most leprosy co...

background: gestational diabetes mellitus (gdm) is a form of diabetes that occurs in pregnancy. gdm, defined as glucose intolerance, first diagnosed or initiated during pregnancy affects 1-14% of pregnancies based on various studies. screening and early diagnosis and appropriate glycemic control can improve prenatal outcomes. telephone follow-up seems to be a reasonable way for pregnant women f...

background: one of the main causes of adverse complications following kidney transplantation is urinary tract infection (uti). this study was done to define the incidence rate, clinical profiles, causative microorganisms, and uti risk factors among kidney transplant recipients in mashhad city. materials and methods: in this retrospective study, we perused medical files of 247 kidney recipients ...

conclusions the current results showed no significant differences between the outcomes of the two procedures at short-term follow-up. however, the results might have changed in the long term. background stress urinary incontinence in women is a common problem that impairs the quality of life in patients. the extraordinary number of procedures to treat stress urinary incontinence reflects a lack...

Background: During last decades, many otologists attempted to make a long standing dry ear, resulting in better hearing after cholesteatoma surgery. This study evaluated the prognosis of two common methods of cholesteatoma ear surgery considering ten years follow-up. Methods: This retrospective analysis was done using medical records of 108 adult patients with cholesteatoma. After ten years of ...