[Artículo traducido] Factores de riesgo para complicaciones en artroplastia total de cadera.

Introduction And Objective: Hip arthroplasty represents a significant advancement in the treatment of refractory chronic joint pain, improving quality of life and functionality. The objective of this study is to identify the risk factors associated with local and systemic complications in patients treated with total hip arthroplasty.

Methods: Observational, analytical, retrospective cohort study, which included 304 participants treated with total hip replacement.

Risk factors for complications in total hip arthroplasty.

Introduction And Objective: Hip arthroplasty represents a significant advancement in the treatment of refractory chronic joint pain, improving quality of life and functionality. The objective of this study is to identify the risk factors associated with local and systemic complications in patients treated with total hip arthroplasty.

Methods: Observational, analytical, retrospective cohort study, which included 304 participants treated with total hip replacement.

Early Austrian multicenter experience with palonosetron as antiemetic treatment for patients undergoing highly or moderately emetogenic chemotherapy.

Background: Palonosetron is a new generation 5-HT3-receptor antagonist with a significantly prolonged half-life and a once-a-day administration compared to the conventional setrons. To evaluate the antiemetic efficacy of palonosetron in the daily hospital practice setting, a postmarketing study was carried out in Austria.

Methods: Palonosetron was administered at 0.

The structure of resource preferences.

This paper outlines the development and testing of the PW questionnaire (Persönliche Wunschvorstellungen-Resource Preferences)--a German version of the IWIR (Inventory of Wishes for Interpersonal Resources; Foa & Bosman, 1979). The PW is based on a taxonomy of resource classes (love, services, goods, money, information, status) proposed by resource theory (Foa & Foa, 1974). The questionnaire was administered to a stratified sample (447 subjects) for the testing of various structural propositions of resource theory.

[Development of an Attitude Toward Handicapped Structure Test. Initial validation studies in a projective test procedure].

To know the structure of the attitudes toward disabled persons is of importance for practical rehabilitation work as well as for rehabilitation research. The hereby presented BESTT 83 (attitudes-toward-disabled-structure test 1983) comprises 15 factors of the attitude toward the disabled (integration climate). It makes use of pictures in order to be most realistic and to eliminate conscious and unconscious tendencies of distortion.

Sonographic findings in a case of uterine and vaginal duplication (didelphys) with unilateral hematocolpometrasalpinx.

The diagnostic capabilities of ultrasound provide an accurate assessment of the size, shape, and location of a mass. The reliability of sonography in evaluating this patient, both pre- and postoperatively, provided invaluable information, aiding the attending physician in his treatment and in his evaluation of the prognosis.