alization, psychiatry focused on helping patients with long-term institutional histories leave psychiatric hospitals and adjust to living in the community. Awareness of the problems of patients with severe mental illness who had never experienced prolonged hospitalization was slow to emerge. A spate of articles in the early 1980s identified, described, and labeled the “young adult chronic patie...

Here, we review 15 years of clinical use of sirolimus in our transplant center, in context with the developing immunosuppressive strategies use worldwide. The majority of studies were conducted in de novo kidney transplant recipients, using sirolimus (SRL) in combination with calcineurin inhibitors (CNIs). We also explored steroid (ST) or CNI-sparing therapies, including CNI minimization, elimi...

BACKGROUND The history of gluteoplasty augmentation includes only a few reported clinical series. OBJECTIVE We report our experience in performing gluteal augmentation using an intramuscular technique in 160 cases over 15 years. We also establish guidelines for performing this procedure. METHODS All patients were women, ranging in age from 18 to 65 years, who underwent intramuscular gluteop...