Breastfeeding, early nutrition, and adult body fat.

Objective: To examine the association between breastfeeding and adult body fatness, adjusting for nutritional intake in early childhood.

Study Design: Nutritional intakes of 73 healthy infants born in 1984 who participated in the 2-decade-long Longitudinal Study of Nutrition and Growth in Children (Etude Longitudinale Alimentation Nutrition Croissance des Enfants [ELANCE]) were estimated at age 10 months and again at age 2 years. Breastfeeding was defined as any breastfeeding, including partial breastfeeding, regardless of duration.

Nasu-Hakola disease as suspected cause for bone disease and dementia.

Progressive dementia in conjunction with multiple bone fractures in a previously healthy young man led to the investigation of the underlying cause. The differential diagnoses (most importantly hypoparathyroidism) were limited given basal ganglia calcifications on the brain computed tomographic scan. Electronic search of the key words basal ganglia calcification, osteoporosis, and dementia revealed a rare condition termed Nasu-Hakola disease or polycystic lipomembranous osteodysplasia with sclerosing leukoencephalopathy.

Effects of different frequencies of conventional transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation on pressure pain threshold and tolerance.

Background: Pulse frequency is one of the key determinants of analgesic outcomes by transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). However, optimal settings remain unclear.

Objective: To compare the effects of different frequencies of TENS, on pressure pain threshold and tolerance.

Effect of Aloe vera topical gel combined with tretinoin in treatment of mild and moderate acne vulgaris: a randomized, double-blind, prospective trial.

Background: Topical retinoids are considered first-line therapy in the treatment of acne vulgaris, yet can be associated with cutaneous irritations. Combination therapy with natural preparations could be effective in treatment and decreasing adverse events.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and safety of the combination of tretinoin (TR) cream (0.

Do mobile phones pose a potential risk to autonomic modulation of the heart?

Background: It has long been speculated that mobile phones may interact with the cardiac devices and thereby cardiovascular system may be a potential target for the electromagnetic fields emitted by the mobile phones. Therefore, the present study was designed to test possible effects of radiofrequency waves emitted by digital mobile phones on cardiac autonomic modulation by short-time heart rate variability (HRV) analysis.

Methods And Results: A total of 20 healthy young subjects were included to the study.

Randomized, single-blind, trial of sertraline and buspirone for treatment of elderly patients with generalized anxiety disorder.

Aim: Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in elderly people is common, but few systematic studies regarding the best treatments have been performed. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of sertraline and buspirone in the treatment of elderly patients with GAD.

Methods: Based on selection criteria, 46 patients were recruited who met DSM-IV criteria for GAD.

Circulating stromelysin concentration is elevated in hypertensive aortic root dilatation.

Accumulating data suggest that activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) is increased in aortic dissection, and in thoracic and abdominal aneurysms. In the present study we sought to determine circulating stromelysin (MMP-3) concentration and its relationship with hypertension-induced aortic root dilatation. The study population included 42 patients with essential hypertension.

Effect of treadmill exercise testing on P wave duration and dispersion in patients with isolated myocardial bridging.

Several previous studies suggest that myocardial bridging (MB) is associated with ischemia and rhythm disturbances. We sought to examine exercise-induced changes in P wave duration and dispersion (PWD), the markers of atrial conduction abnormalities in patients with isolated MB of left anterior descending artery (LAD) and control subjects. Eighteen patients with MB of LAD (group-I) and 22 subjects with angiographically demonstrated normal coronary arteries (group-II) underwent treadmill exercise testing.

Comparing the therapeutic effects of finasteride gel and tablet in treatment of the androgenetic alopecia.

Background: Finasteride, a type II-selective 5alpha-reductase inhibitor, as a causative agent of decreasing dihydroxy testosterone (DHT) level, is effective in the treatment of male androgenic alopecia.

Aim: We compared the local and oral finasteride in the treatment of androgenic alopecia.

Method: This is a double blind, randomized clinical trial study of 45 male patients, who were referred with alopecia to the private clinics and departments in Boo-Ali Sina Hospital, in Sari.

Effect of low-level laser therapy on skin fibroblasts of streptozotocin-diabetic rats.

Objective: This study explored the effects of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) on cellular changes in cell culture and organ culture of skin from streptozotocin-diabetic (STZ-D) rats.

Background Data: Growth of skin and its fibroblasts are impaired in diabetes. Therefore the healing of skin wounds is impaired in diabetic patients.

Effect of low-level laser therapy on healing of medial collateral ligament injuries in rats: an ultrastructural study.

Objective: This study sought to investigate whether low-level laser therapy (LLLT) with a helium-neon (He-Ne) laser would increase fibril diameter of transected medial collateral ligament (MCL) in rats.

Background Data: It has been shown that LLLT can increase ultimate tensile strength MCL healing.

Methods: Thirty rats received surgical transect to their right MCL, and five were assigned as the control group.

Effects of iloprost on vasospasm after experimental spinal cord injury: an electron and light microscopic study.

It has been increasingly reported that traumatic and ischemic insults to the spinal cord may produce tissue damage through both direct and indirect mechanisms. In spite of many theories about post-traumatic spinal cord injury, there is still no satisfactory account of the exact mechanism. Vasospasm may be related to the trauma and release of vasoconstrictor or vasoactive amines.

Osteochondroma of the upper cervical spine. A case report.

Study Design: A report of a patient with osteochondroma of the upper cervical spine causing radiculopathy.

Objectives: The surgical treatment of this patient involved the complete removal of tumor and compression of neural structures.

Summary Of Background Data: Osteochondromas affect mostly the long bones.

CT-guided pain procedures for intractable pain in malignancy.

CT-guided stereotactic percutaneous destructive procedures, i.e. percutaneous cordotomy, trigeminal tractotomy, and extralemniscal myelotomy, have been routinely used for the treatment of localized intractable pain in malignancy since 1987.

Transient hypocalcemia after thyroidectomy.

The causes of transient hypocalcemia after thyroid surgery are not fully understood. In 95 consecutive patients undergoing total thyroidectomy (n = 30), subtotal thyroidectomy (n = 14), or hemithyroidectomy (n = 51), we serially measured total calcium, parathyroid hormone (PTH), and proteins before surgery and 6, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours after surgery, and we calculated the corresponding ionized calcium levels. In the whole population, there was a statistically significant decrease of PTH, total calcium, and proteins at nearly every time of blood withdrawal, when compared with the preoperative levels.

Vertebral arteriovenous fistula caused by angiography catheter: case report.

A case of vertebral arteriovenous fistula (VAF) caused by an angiographic catheter during coronary angiography in a 30-year-old female is presented. The patient complained about a roaring noise in her left ear. Preoperative and postoperative angiographic verification of the lesion is presented.

Localized non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the adrenal and thyroid glands.

A case of immunoblastic lymphoma, involving only the thyroid and the adrenal glands, is presented. The patient had clinical symptoms and findings of Addison's disease, and computed tomography (CT) demonstrated bilateral adrenal tumoral enlargement. He also had euthyroid diffuse multinodular goiter.

Multiparametric evaluation of testicular atrophy due to varicocele.

63 men with palpable left varicoceles were evaluated by semen analysis, scrotal ultrasonography, Doppler sonography, scrotal contact thermography, and radionuclide scanning. 11 (17.4%) patients had bilateral varicoceles detected by scrotal ultrasonography as compared with an incidence of 3.

A rare scrotal mass: fibrous pseudotumor of epididymis.

Fibrous pseudotumor, also called multiple fibromata pseudofibromatous periorchitis, is a rare testicular fibromatous condition. It is a benign fibroproliferative lesion with dense hyalinization and sometimes focal calcification. Most of the cases occur in the testicular tunics, whereas a few originate from the epididymis.

Intrarenal lipoma: report of a case.

We recently had the opportunity to study a case of renal lipoma. Pure intrarenal lipomas are very infrequent among all of the renal tumors and computed tomography is the only means of showing the fatty nature of such masses with its contrast discrimination property.