Diagnostic Accuracy of Magnetic Resonance Images and Weight-Bearing Radiographs in Patients With Arthroscopic-Proven Medial Osteoarthritis of the Knee.

Aims: The aim of this study is to analyze the diagnostic value of weight-bearing radiographs, magnetic resonance images (MRI), and the combination of both in osteoarthritic knees when using arthroscopic findings as the "gold standard" to compare with.

Methods: A total of 59 patients were studied because of chronic pain in 1 of their knees. Radiographs were classified according to Kellgren-Lawrence scale.

Egg oral immunotherapy in children (SEICAP I): Daily or weekly desensitization pattern.

Background: Studies are required before incorporating egg oral immunotherapy (OIT) into clinical practice. The Spanish Society of Pediatric Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (SEICAP) conducted a multicenter, randomized controlled study assessing the effectiveness and safety of the OIT using pasteurized egg white (PEW) in egg-allergic children.

Methods: One hundred and one egg-allergic children (6-9 years) were randomized for 1 year: 25 to an egg-free-diet (CG) and 76 to OIT (target dose 3.

Donor KIR Genotype Impacts on Clinical Outcome after T Cell-Depleted HLA Matched Related Allogeneic Transplantation for High-Risk Pediatric Leukemia Patients.

Preliminary data suggest that ex vivo T cell-depleted matched related donor (MRD) hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is feasible and confers a clinically beneficial reduction in graft-versus-host disease. Classically, T cell-depleted grafts were associated with reduction of the graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect because of delayed T cell immune reconstitution. However, natural killer (NK) cell alloreactivity is also critical for an early GVL effect as well as for lymphocyte immune reconstitution.

Melodic intonation therapy in post-stroke nonfluent aphasia: a randomized pilot trial.

Objective:: To collect data to estimate the sample size of a definitive randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effects of Melodic Intonation Therapy in post-stroke nonfluent aphasia.

Design:: A randomized, crossover, interventional pilot trial.

Setting:: Departments of Neurology and Rehabilitation from a university general hospital.

A prospective analysis of intake and composition of mother's own milk in preterm newborns less than 32 weeks' gestational age.

Background Mothers of preterm (PT) infants have difficulty providing adequate quantities of human milk (HM) for their babies during their hospital stay. The macronutrient content in HM changes over time, varying across and within individual mothers. The research aim of the strudy was to describe the intake of mothers' own milk (MOM) and its composition according to gestational (GA) and postnatal age (PNA) in infants born <32 weeks' GA and to correlate them with neonatal weight, length and morbidities.

Airway pressure alters wavelet fractal dynamics and short-range dependence of respiratory variability.

We sought to quantify the autocorrelation properties and fractal dynamics of interbreath interval (IBI) variability to see if short-term airway pressure (Paw) increases affected scaling behaviour. Data were collected in anaesthetised children at basal (Ba), medium (Me) and high (Hi) Paw. Consistent with short-range dependence, the autocorrelation function was significant at five (Ba) to three (Hi) lags but lost its significance at Me.