PURPOSE To describe epidemiologic and clinical findings of open-globe trauma (OGT) in the southeast area of Spain. METHODS A retrospective descriptive study of 94 eyes with OGT evaluated between 1999 and 2007, in a primary referral hospital. RESULTS The incidence of OGT in our area was 6.76 per 100,000 inhabitants/year. The majority of patients were male (89%) and young (80% of patients < 5...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to examine consistency in injury death statistics from the United States CDC Wide-ranging Online Data for Epidemiologic Research (CDC WONDER) with those from GBD 2015 estimates. Methods: Differences in deaths and the percent difference in deaths between GBD 2015 and CDC WONDER were assessed, as were changes in deaths between 2000 and 2015 for the ...

UNLABELLED Chronic injury to the healthy gastric mucosa with noxious agents such as aspirin or alcohol induces a progressive strengthening of the stomach wall against these insults. The present study examined the histologic response of the rat gastric mucosa to chronic destruction of the superficial mucosa for one month with hypertonic saline. The number, position and morphology of proliferatin...

BACKGROUND Falls warrant investigation as a risk factor for nursing home admission because falls are common and are associated with functional disability and because they may be preventable. METHODS We conducted a prospective study of a probability sample of 1103 people over 71 years of age who were living in the community. Data on demographic and medical characteristics, use of health care, ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to characterize the nature of dog bite injuries treated over a 5-year period at a large tertiary pediatric hospital and to identify relevant parameters for public education and injury prevention. METHODS Investigators performed a retrospective review of emergency room records of a single tertiary pediatric hospital. Records of all patients who were e...

For the purpose of the Community Guidelines, the definition of a fall is that adopted by the World Health Organisation [33]. A fall is an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level. This definition excludes falls resulting from an intentional change in position, but does include those where the person inadvertently comes to rest on f...

abstract   objective: to evaluate and review our experience with pediatric spinal injuries and factors affecting outcome, the authors conducted a retrospective clinical study of 43 cases (32 boys, 11 girls) of pediatric spine injuries treated during four years (january 1999 to december 2003).   methods: forty-three children with spinal injuries were studied retrospectively over four years and w...