Fatal Plesiomonas shigelloides in a newborn.
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M Ramirez
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Keratometric results during the first year after keratoplasty: adjustable single running suture technique versus double running suture technique.
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: To compare the 3-month and 1-year postoperative keratometric results in a retrospective sequential series of corneal grafts performed with either a double running suture technique or an adjustable single running suture technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Keratometry values obtained 3 months and 1 year after penetrating keratoplasty, when sutures were still present, were compared between 31 grafts with double running sutures and 27 grafts with single running sutures, 15 of which had been adjusted postoperatively. RESULTS: No significant difference in mean keratometry between the 2 groups was found either 3 months or 12 months after keratoplasty. Mean keratometric astigmatism was significantly less in the single running group at both 3 months (2.2 +/- 1.9 vs 4.5 +/- 2.8, mean +/- SD, P <0.001) and 12 months (3.0 +/- 2.2 vs 4.2 +/- 2.1, P = 0.03). Within groups, there was no significant change from 3 months to 12 months in either mean keratometry or keratometric astigmatism. CONCLUSION: The single running suture technique, with postoperative adjustments, produced less keratometric astigmatism during the first postoperative year, when sutures were still in place.
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Health promotion and disease prevention strategies.
The rapid growth and relative youth of the Latino population of the United States, soon to become the largest ethnic-racial group in the country, presents numerous opportunities and a special challenge to those concerned with the health and well-being of this segment of people. The challenge is to develop and implement efficacious strategies for improving Latino health at a time when the overall socioeconomic profile of this population is in striking contrast to that of the rest of the American people. Much can be done to improve Latino health by implementing health promotion and disease prevention interventions designed to achieve Latino parity in reaching year 2000 national health care objectives. The problems encountered by Latinos in obtaining health promotion and disease prevention services, previous recommendations on how these problems could be addressed, and new strategies for implementing more effective services for Latinos are summarized.
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