BACKGROUND: Prednisolone has been suggested as a treatment for olfactory disorders after COVID-19, but evidence is scarce. Hence, we aimed to determine the efficacy of a short oral prednisolone treatment on patients with ...

Aims Optimize and assess the performance of an existing data mining algorithm for smoking status from hospital electronic health records (EHRs) in general practice EHRs. Methods and results We optimized an existing algorithm ...

In universities worldwide, there has been a movement away from mono-disciplinary towards multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary education, motivated by the notion that complex societal issues call for more than a single ...

MRI and intraoperative electrocorticography are often used in tandem to delineate epileptogenic tissue in resective surgery for focal epilepsy. Both the resection of the MRI lesion and tissue with high rates of electrographic ...

Background: Cocaine use is a well-established risk factor for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) although other recreational drugs (RD), are increasingly considered as potential cardiac risk factors. Compared to ACS without RD ...

With great interest, we have read the article entitled "Morphology, Development and Deformation of the Spine in Mild and Moderate Scoliosis: Are Changes in the Spine Pri-mary or Secondary [...].

Femoral component orientation plays a key role in implant stability and therefore the success rate of total hip arthroplasty. To date, this topic has been studied using various definitions and a variety of imaging modalities ...

Background:Decreased pelvic mobility and pelvic retroversion may result from spinal degeneration and lead to changes in the orientation of the acetabular implant after total hip arthroplasty (THA). While multiple patient ...

PURPOSE: The apical deformation in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) is a combination of rotation, coronal deviation and passive anterior lengthening of the spine. In AIS surgery, posterior-concave lengthening or ...