Long-Term Follow-Up of Renal Morphology and Function in Children after Lithotripsy

1995 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kemal Sanca ◽  
Sadettin Küpei ◽  
Nese Sarica ◽  
Orhan Gögüş ◽  
Sahir Kihç ◽  
...  
Author(s):  
Margit V. Szabari ◽  
Jozsef Tolnai ◽  
Balazs Maar ◽  
Harikrishnan Parameswaran ◽  
Elizabeth Bartolak-Suki ◽  
...  

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marion Zucker Goldstein ◽  
Barry Steven Fogel ◽  
Bruce Leonard Young

Mental status changes were assessed and compared in 172 general surgical and orthopedic patients and 190 nonsurgical patients, all aged 55 and over, during a 10-month period. Assessments included a structured psychosocial questionnaire and standardized tests of cognition, affect, and function. The relationship of surgery, type of surgery, age, gender, and postoperative delirium to long-term postoperative decline was evaluated. Analyses of variance directly tested main effects pertaining to each of the five hypotheses and interactions of surgery with background variables. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses assessed the unique contributions of demographic and surgical variables to cognitive, affective, and functional change. None of the independent variables tested made a significant contribution to changes from baseline to long-term follow-up. The findings may be due to the physical and psychological health of this sample, and replication of this work in more impaired populations may be productive.


2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 257-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Ram ◽  
Benny Peretz

Current developments in esthetic dentistry center around new techniques and materials that improve the ability of the clinician to provide esthetic services. This article describes a step-by-step method of placing composite crown-form crowns on severely decayed primary mandibular molars. The described technique allows for restoring, as close as possible, form and function lost to caries in an esthetic mode in cases of severely decayed primary molars that would have required stainless steel crowns had they been treated traditionally. Disadvantages of this treatment mode are that dryness may not be prevented in the proximal margins, especially where subgingival carious involvement is encountered and the margin areas may be contaminated with gingival fluid or blood. Although no long-term follow-up has been reported for the technique, when strong opposition by the parent or child to the stainless steel crown is encountered, and a desire for esthetic restoration is strongly expressed, the composite crown-form crowns may be considered as an alternative.


2013 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 105-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. K. Vesely ◽  
D. R. Terrell ◽  
C. C. Deford ◽  
J. A. Reese ◽  
Z. L. Al-Nouri ◽  
...  

SummaryThe Oklahoma Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura-Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (TTPHUS) Registry has a 24 year record of success for collaborative clinical research, education, and patient care. This article tells the story of how the Registry began and it describes the Registry’s structure and function. The Registry provides a model for using a cohort of consecutive patients to investigate a rare disorder. Collaboration between Oklahoma, United States and Bern, Switzerland has been the basis for successful interpretation of Registry data.Registry data have provided new insights into the evaluation and management of TTP. Because recovery from acute episodes of TTP has been assumed to be complete, the increased prevalence of hypertension, diabetes, depression, and death documented by long-term follow-up was unexpected. Registry data have provided opportunities for projects for students and trainees, education of physicians and nurses, and also for patients themselves. During our follow-up, patients have also educated Registry investigators about problems that persist after recovery from an acute episode of TTP. Most important, Registry data have resulted in important improvements for patient care.


2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. B. LINDÉN ◽  
M. K. LIDEGRAN ◽  
G. FRISÉN ◽  
P. DAHLGREN ◽  
B. P. FRENCKNER ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-61
Author(s):  
Stephanie L. Watts

Thoracic insufficiency syndrome is the inability of the thorax to support normal respiration or lung growth. One treatment to address the thoracic deformities associated with the syndrome is placement of a vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib. The goal is to restore thoracic volume, symmetry, and function and to allow for growth of the thorax in skeletally immature children. The main topics include indications for placement of a titanium rib, postoperative nursing care, potential complications, long-term follow-up, quality-of-life issues, and implications for critical care nurses and advanced practice nurses. (Critical Care Nurse. 2016;36[2]:52-61)


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