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Patient goals after incontinence procedures: does the single-incision sling satisfy them?
2012
Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to describe short-term postoperative achievement of subjective preoperative goals for single-incision MiniArc slings, in comparison with tension-free vaginal tape (TVT). Method Patients submitted to mid-urethral sling (TVT and MiniArc) procedures for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in two centers were included in this prospective study. Before surgery, the patients completed a preoperative open-ended questionnaire, in which they described their personal outcomes goals for SUI surgery and the degree of severity of their symptoms. At the first postoperative check, they were asked to assess the degree to which their goals had been met and the degr…
Cizolirtine Citrate, an Effective Treatment for Symptomatic Patients with Urinary Incontinence Secondary to Overactive Bladder: A Pilot Dose-Finding …
2009
Abstract Background A dose-finding study was performed as the first step in the clinical development of the new drug, cizolirtine citrate. Objective To assess the efficacy and safety of cizolirtine citrate in overactive bladder with urinary incontinence. Design, setting, and participants Seventy-nine outpatients with clinical overactive bladder and/or urodynamic diagnosis of detrusor overactivity were randomized in a multicentre, 12-wk, double-blind, pilot trial. Interventions Patients received cizolirtine citrate 400mg bid (C400), cizolirtine citrate 200mg bid (C200), or placebo. Measurements Patients recorded efficacy variables in 7- and 14-d bladder diaries: urinary incontinence episodes…
Comment on Umpierrez and Klonoff. Diabetes Technology Update: Use of Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring in the Hospital. Diabetes Care 2…
2019
We applaud Umpierrez and Klonoff (1) for reviewing the evidence on the application of insulin pump therapy (continuous subcutaneous glucose infusion [CSII]) and continuous glucose monitoring in inpatient settings. However, we missed a dedicated section about the patients’ perspective and experiences concerning insulin pump use in hospitals. In a qualitative survey conducted in Germany, elderly patients with type 1 diabetes (≥65 years, n = 136) and health care professionals (HCP, n = 96) were asked about their wishes, concerns, and needs related to CSII (2). The 290 responses (165 patients; 125 HCPs) were classified into three categories. First were positive experiences (patients n = 17; HCP…
Patient-Reported Outcomes and Continuous Glucose Monitoring: Can We Do Better With Artificial Pancreas Devices?
2015
Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) assess a person’s experience, feelings, and thoughts about both their condition and its treatment. PROs are able to contribute to a benefit assessment of new medical products by introducing the patients’ subjective evaluation of medical products into the evaluation process. Thus, PROs are also the cornerstone of medical product development for understanding patients’ perceptions on medical products and/or its benefit assessment. In the past 15 years, PROs were also evaluated in most clinical trials performed with continuous glucose monitoring systems. However, in its recent evaluation of such trials, the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health …
Ambulatory blood pressure during diseases of the kidney
1999
During the last few years there has been a renewal of interest in blood-pressure-induced kidney damage due to a progressive increase in the incidence and prevalence of hypertension and vascular diseases as a cause of end-stage renal disease (ESRD). The need to prevent ESRD demands a continuation of effort to make the early identification of hypertensives who are at risk possible and to provide them with effective antihypertensive therapy. Since ambulatory blood pressure monitoring has been used successfully to assess blood pressure and identify risk markers for cardiovascular diseases, a logical approach would be to use it also to identify the risk markers for ESRD. Higher than normal perce…
Numerical approach to problems of gravitational instability of geostructures with advected material boundaries
1998
SUMMARY We present a numerical approach for solving 2-D mantle flow problems where the chemical composition changes abruptly across intermediate boundaries. The method combines a Galerkin-spline technique with a method of integration over regions bounded by advected interfaces to represent discontinuous variations of material parameters. It allows direct approximation of a natural free surface position, instead of a posteriori calculation of topography from the normal stress at the upper free-slip boundary. We formulate a model where a viscous incompressible fluid filling a square box is divided into layers (not necessarily horizontal) by advected boundaries, across which the density and vi…
Pan African plate tectonics and its repercussions on the crust of northeast Africa
1979
Pan African belts of the African mainland and the Arabian-Nubian Shield exhibit evolutionary features which are either compatible with intracontinental ensialic development or with plate margin and Wilson cycle tectonics during the time period ∼ 1100–500 Ma ago.
L'insertion professionnelle et la formation en cours d'emploi
1994
International audience; Que l'éducation joue un rôle essentiel dans tout processus de développement, tous les travaux convergent pour l'affirmer. Il en est ainsi de ceux des macroéconomistes qui lui attribuent une part importante des taux de croissance, et des analystes du rendement de l'éducation qui calculent des taux de rendement, surtout dans le primaire, plus élevés que ceux de la majorité des investissements industriels. Quant aux enquêtes de terrain, elles montrent que les agriculteurs et petits entrepreneurs éduqués ont des productivités plus élevées que celles de leurs homologues qui ne le sont pas. En Afrique, malgré des dépenses relativement élevées consacrées à l'éducation, les …
In-Service teacher education in Kenya
1984
International audience
Il sacrificio di Ifigenia fra Ditti-Settimio e Draconzio
2022
L’intervento si propone una disamina dell’episodio di Ifigenia nell’«Orestis tragoedia», presentato e analizzato sia in rapporto alla tradizione classica – in particolare, ovviamente, quella latina – tenuta presente da Draconzio nella delineazione della vicenda e nella presentazione della figura della figlia di Agamennone, sia in rapporto con la tradizione tardo-antica, in particolare con la narrazione di Ditti-Settimio. Attraverso l’analisi dell’episodio in questione, si cerca di mettere in risalto i fattori di continuità e di innovazione nel trattamento del mito di Ifigenia (e dei miti classici in generale) da parte del poeta africano. The intervention proposes an examination of the episo…