RISK FACTORS FOR PERI-IMPLANTITIS IN THE POSTERIOR FIXED IMPLANT-PROSTHETIC THERAPY: RETROSPECTIVE STUDY by Davidescu Alexandra, Norina Forna, Doriana Agop-Forna, Cristina Dascălu, Ana-Maria Fătu, Scutariu Mihaela-Monica

Get full text

Retrospective Study on Acute Kidney Injury among Cholera Patients in an Outbreak in Whitefield, Bengaluru by Girish P Vakrani, Tanuja Nambakam

“…Material and Methods. It was a retrospective observational study involving patients with cholera. …”
Get full text

Correlation of blood coagulation parameters with comorbidities in COVID-19 patients: A retrospective study by Shuba N, Michael A

Get full text

Pre-diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors in NAFLD patients: a retrospective comparative analysis by Azam Teimouri, Zahra Ebrahimpour, Awat Feizi, Bijan Iraj, Elahe Saffari, Mojtaba Akbari, Mozhgan Karimifar

“…The aim of the present study was to assess the frequency of pre-diabetes and evaluate the cardiometabolic risk factors among NAFLD patients, comparing those with pre-diabetes to those with normal glucose tolerance.MethodsIn the current retrospective case-control study, the data of 1031 NAFLD patients was retrieved. …”
Get full text

Benign acute childhood myositis in Qassim, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; A retrospective study by Yasir S. Alkhalifah, Yazeed A. Alghasham, Haitham M. Jarikji, Ammara Naeem, Mansour S. Alzahrani, Hussein Omari Sombi

“…Settings and Design: This retrospective study was conducted in the Province of Qassim-Buraidah, Saudi Arabia. …”
Get full text

Psychiatric Referrals in a Tertiary Care Hospital in North India: A Retrospective Study by Akansha Bhardwaj, Dimple Gupta, Rashmi Prakash, Nimmi A. Jose

“…Materials and Methods: A retrospective hospital based study was conducted in the Department of Psychiatry, Hamdard Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, New Delhi, by analyzing the recorded data of referrals to the Psychiatry Department from various other specialties from January 2019 to March 2020. …”
Get full text

Correlation of Cleanliness among Different Bowel Segments during Colonoscopy: A Retrospective Study by Zhou Haibin, Zhang Xiaofeng, Yang Jianfeng

Get full text

Various Techniques to Increase Keratinized Tissue for Implant Supported Overdentures: Retrospective Case Series by Ahmed Elkhaweldi, Carmen Rincon Soler, Rodrigo Cayarga, Takanori Suzuki, Zev Kaufman

“…The purpose of this retrospective case series is to describe and compare different surgical techniques that can be utilized to augment the keratinized soft tissue around implant-supported overdentures. …”
Get full text

Effect of differences in vascular anatomy on surgical outcomes of left pancreatectomy: a retrospective study by Masahiro Fukada, Noriki Mitsui, Takeshi Horaguchi, Yuji Hatanaka, Itaru Yasufuku, Yuta Sato, Jesse Yu Tajima, Shigeru Kiyama, Yoshihiro Tanaka, Katsutoshi Murase, Nobuhisa Matsuhashi

“…Methods This was a single-center retrospective study involving 123 patients who underwent left pancreatectomy (LP). …”
Get full text

Hyperferritinemia in the Chinese and Asian Community: A Retrospective Review of the University of British Columbia Experience by Paul R Yenson, Eric M Yoshida, Charles H Li, Henry V Chung, Peter WK Tsang

“…The etiology of hyperferritinemia in the Asia-Pacific population is less clear due to a low prevalence of known HFE mutations such as C282Y and H63D, as well as an increased prevalence of viral hepatitis and hereditary anemia. A retrospective case review of 80 patients of Asian ethnicity referred to three subspecialists in tertiary care teaching hospitals between January 1997 and March 2005 for assessment of hyperferritinemia was performed.…”
Get full text

Comparison of mNGS with conventional methods for diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis: a retrospective study by Zai-Jie Jiang, Jian-Chen Hong, Bi-Wei Lin, Wei-Qing Zhang, Qi-Chao Fan, Bi-Hui Yang, Xiang-Ping Yao

“…Abstract The application of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) in the diagnosis of cryptococcal meningitis is relatively under characterized. Here, we retrospectively evaluated data from cryptococcal meningitis patients who were tested using mNGS and/or routine testing, including fungal culture, India ink staining, and cryptococcal antigen (CrAg) testing. …”
Get full text

A Retrospective Evaluation of the Utility of Capsule Endoscopy and Double-Balloon Endoscopy in Crohn’s Disease by Masanao Nakamura, Yoshiki Hirooka, Osamu Watanabe, Takeshi Yamamura, Kohei Funasaka, Eizaburo Ohno, Hiroki Kawashima, Ryoji Miyahara, Hidemi Goto

“…Patients and Methods. We retrospectively reviewed data from 185 patients with established CD. …”
Get full text

Predictability of the gingival margin of the upper incisors with transparent aligners: a pilot retrospective study by Antonio Bach-Álvarez, Lourdes Abellán-Ferris, María-Dolores Oteo-Calatayud, Susana de la Cruz-Vigo, Wenceslao Piedra-Gascón, Alba Pérez-Jardón, Naresh Kewalramani, Ángel-Orión Salgado-Peralvo, Carlos Oteo-Morilla

“…Transparent aligners, and within them, the Invisalign® system, are one of the most used and demanded to achieve our aesthetic and functional goals, and the ClinCheck software is key to determining the final result of our treatment. This retrospective study aims to analyse the predictability of the gingival margin of the upper incisors designed in the ClinCheck, comparing it with real intraoral photographs of the patients.Materials and methods Thirty-one patients between 16 and 59 years old were selected from the dental clinics of the Complutense University of Madrid and the position of the gingival margin in the ClinCheck was compared with its millimetre template by superimposing it on intraoral photographs taken with a millimetre ruler under the incisors in order to make the match between both.Results In 71% of the upper incisors there were differences between the ClinCheck and the final photographs, being these differences statistically significant (p = 0.001).Conclusion This is a pilot retrospective study with short-term results and a small sample size. …”
Get full text

Association between occupational exposure to gasoline and anemia: a retrospective cohort study in China by Lan Lin, Hongmei Cao, Beining Wu, Jin Wang, Lin Song, Weiling Chan, Geyang Li, Li Zhou, Jing Xiao, Lejia Zhu, Yulong Lian

“…The current cohort study aimed to investigate the association between occupational exposure to gasoline and anemia, and the effect of gasoline concentration on hemoglobin (Hb) levels. Methods This retrospective cohort study collected baseline data from 1451 workers, including 605 exposed to gasoline and 846 not exposed to gasoline. …”
Get full text

Clinical Features of COVID‐19 Associated Pulmonary Aspergillosis: A Multicenter, Retrospective Study by Yasheng Zhan, Guojun He, Cheng Zhong, Yake Yao, Jiangying Zhou, Tong Li, Hua Zhou

“…Methods In this study, we conducted a multicenter retrospective survey, which included patients with COVID‐19 from five hospitals in Zhejiang, China. …”
Get full text

The Effect of Epidural Analgesia on the Delivery Outcome of Induced Labour: A Retrospective Case Series by Angeliki Antonakou, Dimitrios Papoutsis

“…Study Design. This was a retrospective case series of primigravidae women being induced at term for all indications with a normal body mass index (BMI) at booking and under the age of 40 years. …”
Get full text

Classical swine fever: retrospective analysis of epidemic situation in Russian Federation (1996-2015) by A. S. Oganesyan, A. A. Shevtsov, M. A. Shibayev, F. L. Korennoy, N. E. Baskakova, A. K. Karaulov

Subjects: Get full text

Characteristic analysis and surgical exploration for acetabular roof fractures: Multicenter retrospective cohort study by Ruipeng Zhang, Yingchao Yin, Wei Chen, Yan Zhuang, Shicai Fan, Chengla Yi, Gang Lyu, Longpo Zheng, Xiaodong Guo, Ming Li, Guangyao Liu, Zhiyong Hou, Yingze Zhang

Get full text

Efficacy of Percutaneous Image-Guided Rupture of Lumbar Facet Cysts: A Retrospective Study by Yohei Ishihara, Masutaro Morishita, Koji Kanzaki

Get full text

Training of Highly Qualified Scientific Personnel in Pedagogical Sciences: Retrospective Analysis (2011–2020) by L. V. Shchegoleva, S. I. Pakhomov, V. A. Gurtov

“…The purpose of the study is a general assessment of the system of training and certification of candidates and doctors of pedagogical sciences, the development and testing of a method for identifying the mainstream in the subject of dissertation research and quantifying the implementation of priority pedagogical research directions in dissertation works for a ten-year retrospective period.The results of the analysis revealed a reduction in the number of dissertation defenses in pedagogical sciences, which is in line with the general trend of reducing defenses, aging of dissertation councils members, a small number of young doctors of sciences. …”
Get full text