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BACKGROUND: The objective of this study was to analyse the impact of acute surgery for native aortic valve endocarditis and its influence on the long-term prognosis after surgery.

METHODS: A total of 161 patients underwent aortic valve replacement for native active aortic valve endocarditis (NAAVE) during a 29-year period, from 1967 to 1995 (age range: 10 to 72 years; mean 48 +/- 12). The main indication for surgery was progressive ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare long-term morbidity of nonclosure and closure of the peritoneum at caesarean section.

STUDY DESIGN: Participants to a randomised controlled trial were contacted 7 years later. Outcome measures were assessed by a postal questionnaire and reports of subsequent operations.

RESULTS: We were able to contact 226 of the 280 women recruited initially, and 144 responded to the questionnaire. Sixty-nine had been ...

BACKGROUND: One year survival of islet cell grafts has been reproducibly achieved under combination immune therapy including tacrolimus (TAC). However, the use of TAC causes beta-cell and renal toxicity. Because sirolimus (SIR) monotherapy was successful in kidney transplantation under antithymocyte globulin (ATG), we undertook a pilot study comparing SIR monotherapy with SIR-TAC combination therapy.

METHODS: Nonuremic type 1 ...

Our objective was to estimate the incidence and identify the risk factors for vaginal vault prolapse repair after hysterectomy. We conducted a case control study among 6,214 women who underwent hysterectomy from 1982 to 2002. Cases (n = 32) were women who required vaginal vault suspension following the hysterectomy through December 2005. Controls (n = 236) were women, randomly selected from the same cohort, who did not require pelvic organ ...

BACKGROUND: The transobturator tape procedure (TOT) is an effective surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence. However data concerning safety are rare, follow-up is often less than two years, and complications are probably underreported. The aim of this study was to describe early and late complications associated with TOT procedures and identify risk factors for erosions.

METHODS: It was a 27 months follow-up of a ...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate and analyse epidemiology, demographics and patterns of presentation of assault induced stab injuries in a main Belgian trauma centre. To evaluate surgical management, complications and postoperative follow-up of the stab wound victims.

METHODS: One hundred and seventy assaulted patients, hospitalised because of stab injuries from January 2000 to June 2007 are studied retrospectively.

RESULTS: ...

BACKGROUND: Vestibular schwannomas (VSs) are the most common cerebellopontine angle tumors, accounting for 75% of all lesions in this location.

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the results after removal of VS through the enlarged translabyrinthine approach, which is a widening of the classic translabyrinthine approach that gives larger access and provides more room to facilitate tumor removal and to minimize surgery-related morbidities.

AIM: To evaluate the outcomes of the type-I and type-II Boston keratoprostheses in a single Irish centre.

METHODS: A retrospective chart review of keratoprosthesis implantations carried out in our institution from November 2002 to March 2014 was performed. All procedures were performed by a single surgeon (WP).

RESULTS: Thirty-four keratoprosthesis implantations were carried out in 31 patients with a mean follow-up of ...