BACKGROUND: Respiratory failure due to lung immaturity is a major cause of mortality in preterm infants. Although intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) saves lives, lung distortion during its use is associated with lung injury and chro...
Auteurs:DJ Henderson-Smart, T Bhuta, F Cools, and M Offringa
BACKGROUND: Ventilated newborn infants breathing in asynchrony with the ventilator are at risk for complications during mechanical ventilation, such as pneumothorax or intraventricular hemorrhage, and are exposed to more severe barotrauma, which c...
A case of traumatic pseudo-aneurysm and dissection of the proximal descending thoracic aorta in association with an aberrant right subclavian artery and a common trunk for both common carotid arteries presented. The diagnosis of this traumatic pse...
Auteurs:K Coenegrachts, Hans Rigauts, J De Letter, and Luc Meeus
A systematic review should include all available evidence from computerized databases and other sources. The search strategy must be based on an explicit description of the subjects receiving the reference test, the diagnostic test of interest, it...
Auteurs:Frank Buntinx, Bert Aertgeerts, and P Macaskill
Background: Epidemiological research on occurrence and determinants of cancer requires reliable age and sex adjusted incidence rates for all cancer groups. The absolute numbers and age-specific data are also valuable for cancer research and planni...
Auteurs:Daniël Lousbergh, Frank Buntinx, E Cloes, D Dhollander, E Salk, L Op de Beeck, J Rummens, B Van Brabandt, J Vanden Brande, H Vandeput, and A Van Waes
Auteurs:GE Bekkering, HJM Hendriks, WJ Paterson, Rik Gosselink, RVM Chadwick-Straver, CP van der Schans, MCE Verhoef-De Wijk, H Jongmans, and Marc Decramer
OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of alcohol problems in first-year college students. DESIGN: Cross-sectional. METHOD: Data on the prevalence of alcohol abuse or dependence according to DSM-IV criteria were collected in the period November 19...
Auteurs:B Aertgeerts, F Buntinx, C Vandermeulen, M Roelants, J Fevery, and S Ansoms
BACKGROUND: Diagnosing dermatomycosis from a clinical image is not always easy. Microscopy of a potassium hydroxide preparation (KOH-test) and culturing are seldomly used in general practice. Cyanoacrylate surface skin scraping (CSSS) is a new dia...
Auteurs:Daniël Lousbergh, Frank Buntinx, and G Piérard
The study objective was to describe the GP's referrals of patients to diagnostic evaluation of dementia and the GP's perception of the organization of this process++. The study is based on postal questionnaire mailed to all GPs in Denmark, spring ...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of a Dutch national prevention programme, aimed at general practitioners (GPs), on the adherence to organizational guidelines for effective cervical cancer screening in general practice. To identify the characteris...
Auteurs:RPMG Hermens, E Hak, MEJL Hulscher, J Mulder, MAJB Tacken, JCC Braspenning, and RPTM Grol
Aim-To summarise the evidence on the efficacy of elective high frequency ventilation compared with conventional ventilation in preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome.
The lack of highly significant linkage results in many common diseases such as schizophrenia is consistent with formal genetic studies suggesting that these disorders are influenced by numerous alleles. Their large number provide major problems in...
Auteurs:HW Moises, JH Edwards, P Matthiasson, G Jhala, H Kristbjarnarson, II Gottesman, F Karlsdottir-Waldorff, B Neubauer, T Zoega, and T Helgason
We report on a woman with clinical Cushing's syndrome confirmed by biochemical data. The Cushing's syndrome was shown to be ACTH dependent and inferior petrosal sinus sampling pointed to an ectopic source. After resection of a lung carcinoid a wel...
Auteurs:Ann Van Den Bruel, Mieke Bex, Jo Van Dorpe, Walter Heyns, and Roger Bouillon
BACKGROUND: Non-response analysis is often restricted to the influence of age, sex and socio-economic status on response status. In this study the health status of responders and non-responders was also compared. RESULTS: Responders were comparabl...
Auteurs:M van den Akker, Frank Buntinx, JF Metsemakers, and JA Knottnerus
Increasing numbers of people are found to have two or more diseases at the same time, which is termed multimorbidity. We studied the prevalence, incidence, and determinants of multimorbidity and the statistical clustering of chronic and recurrent ...
Auteurs:M van den Akker, Frank Buntinx, JF Metsemakers, S Roos, and JA Knottnerus
A formulation of recombinant hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) combined with a novel adjuvant system, SBAS4--a combination of aluminium salt and monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), was assessed in 27 healthy adult volunteers with a commercial vaccine ...
Auteurs:S Thoelen, P Van Damme, C Mathei, G Leroux-Roels, I Desombere, A Safary, P Vandepapeliere, M Slaoui, and A Meheus
BACKGROUND: Well-organized cervical screening has been shown to be effective in the reduction of both morbidity and mortality from cancer of the uterine cervix. In The Netherlands, the GP plays an important role in the cervical screening. The ques...
Auteurs:RPMG Hermens, E Hak, MEJL Hulscher, J Mulder, JCC Braspenning, and RPTM Grol
Aspects of capillary refilling time (CRT) in newborns, such as pressing time, sites of testing, normal values and difference between observers were assessed. CRT was measured in 280 term newborns, divided into 7 groups of 40 each, varying pressing...
Auteurs:I Abraham, Liesbeth Borgermans, C De Froidmont, A Dejace, L Englebert, C Gosset, Y Hogge, S Indenkleef, Koen Milisen, Philip Moons, J Reginster, P Rondal, Els Steeman, and B Wouters
To examine the reliability of demographical patient characteristics as routinely registered by the general practitioner (GP) in the Registration Network Family Practices, the educational level and type of living arrangement were compared with resp...
Auteurs:M van den Akker, GHLM Franssen, Frank Buntinx, JFM Metsemakers, and JA Knottnerus
