Summary: Cognitive impairment classifying for dementia syndrome is occasionally detected in patients suffering from old-age depression. When depression improves, cognitive function also may reverse to normal, but these patients are at greater risk for ...
In human medicine the Sequential Organ Failure Assessment (SOFA) score is one of the most commonly organ dysfunction scoring systems used to assess critically ill patients and to predict the outcome in Intensive Care Units (ICUs). It is composed of scores ...
Background: We compared one-year amputation and survival rates in patients fulfilling 1991 European consensus critical limb ischaemia (CLI) definition to those clas, sified as CLI by TASC II but not European consensus (EC) definition. Patients and methods:...
Summary:Background: Vascular Behçet's disease (VBD) might involve all sizes of arterial and venous vessels. Major vascular involvement caused the primary death in Behçet's syndrome (BS). We aimed to investigate the clinical characteristics and factors ...
Duration of Treatment and Therapy Success in Inpatient Behaviour Therapy for Alcohol-Dependent PersonsAbstract:Background: Differential treatment durations in the inpatient treatment of alcohol-dependent persons ...
Definition: Periampullary carcinomas are rare and constitute a special entity, as diagnosed earlier and having a better prognosis than other duodenal tumors. Methods: In the present study, we retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 16 patients ...
What happens to children and adolescents with mental disorders? Findings from long-term outcome researchResearch on the long-term outcome of mental disorders originating in childhood and adolescence is an important part of developmental psychopathology. ...
Epidemiology and course of personality disordersAbstract. Community studies conducted over the past decade have greatly increased our knowledge of the epidemiology of personality disorders. Here, we review the prevalence, ...
Historically, the presence of skin involvement results in the classification of a breast carcinoma into the highest tumor category, or accordingly into the highest non-metastatic disease stage (current TNM classification: T4/stage III). However, probably ...
Greater body fatness was found to be a risk factor for postmenopausal breast cancer (BC); furthermore this factor appears to be associated with poor prognosis. These findings were tested by analyzing 1459 patients whose cases were recorded in the Basler ...