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Prevalence of Levator Ani Defects in Urogynecological Patients
2016
Introduction: Defects of the levator ani muscle complex could represent a pathophysiological link between vaginal birth trauma and urogynecological symptoms many years later. The aim of our study was to determine the prevalence of levator ani muscle defects using 3D or 4D ultrasound and palpation in urogynecological patients. Material and Methods: Urogynecological patients were retrospectively investigated using 3D or 4D ultrasound. Clinical examination consisted of palpation and 3D or 4D imaging of the levator ani muscle. Results: A total of 319 women were included in the analysis. Mean age was 64.9 years, average parity was 2.1. Stress incontinence was present in 50.8 %, overactive bladde…
Epidemiologie und �tiologie der instabilen Blase
2003
Die instabile Blase ist eine Volkskrankheit von vergleichbarem Ausmas wie der Diabetes mellitus. Mit zunehmender Uberalterung der Gesellschaft ist von einer Aggravierung des Problems auszugehen. Die Internationale Kontinenz-Gesellschaft (ICS) hat im Jahr 2002 die Terminologie der instabilen Blase uberarbeitet und den symptomorientierten Begriff des Blasenuberaktivitatssyndroms geschaffen. Atiologisch kommen dafur eine neurogene und nichtneurogene Detrusorhyperaktivitat sowie die Detrusorhypersensitivitat in Betracht.
Defining female voiding dysfunction: ICI-RS 2011
2012
Whilst symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) and post micturition symptoms are more commonly reported in men a significant number of women may also complain of voiding dysfunction. However, despite the recent advances in the standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract dysfunction there remains a lack of consensus regarding a precise diagnosis and definition of voiding abnormalities in women. In addition voiding symptoms may co-exist with storage symptoms as well as those associated with urinary incontinence. Consequently many patients present with a spectrum of different urinary symptoms, related to both storage and voiding, which may be multifactorial in origin or be relat…
UROEPITHELIAL DEFENSE IN CHILDREN WITH URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS (UTI)
1985
It is well accepted that obstructive uropathy causes UTI.In patients without urological anomalies a host defense defect of the uroepithelial cells (UEC) may result in increased susceptibility to bacterial infections.Even in patients with vesicourethral reflux (VUR) and recurrent UTI the postulated defense mechanism may be impaired since a significant proportion of these patients still suffer from UTI after surgical therapy.Therefore the influence of UEC on bacterial growth was investigated in 5 groups of children: healthy donors,children with neurogenic bladder due to myelomeningocele (MMC),patients with asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU;without obstructive uropathy) and patients with VUR after…
Gesteigerte Expression des Tunnelproteins Connexin43 in der obstruierten Rattenblase - eine mögliche Ursache obstruktionsbedingter Blasenhyperaktivit…
2002
Fragestellung: Blasenhyperaktivitat ist ein haufiges und belastendes Symptom der Blasenauslassobstruktion und persistiert oft auch nach effektiver Deobstruierung. Gap junctions werden schon langer als mogliche Ursache von Blasenhyperaktivitat diskutiert. Wir untersuchten die regionale Verteilung des Gap-junction-Proteins Connexin43 in obstruierten und nicht obstruierten Rattenblasen. Material und Methode: Durch partielle Ligatur der Urethra wurde eine Obstruktion bei weiblichen Ratten erzeugt. Nach 6 Wochen wurden die Blasen entnommen und fur den molekularbiologischen Nachweis von Connexin43-mRNS durch kompetitive RT-PCR oder die immunhistochemische Detektion von Connexin43-Protein weiterve…
How widespread are the symptoms of an overactive bladder and how are they managed? A population-based prevalence study
2001
Objective To determine the prevalence of chronic and debilitating symptoms of the overactive bladder, defined here as the presence of chronic frequency, urgency and urge incontinence (either alone or in any combination), and presumed to be caused by involuntary detrusor contractions. Subjects and methods Data were collected using a population-based survey (conducted by telephone or direct interview) of men and women aged 40 years, selected from the general population in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, using a random stratified approach. The main outcome measures were: prevalence of urinary frequency (> 8 micturitions/24 h), urgency and urge incontinence; the p…
Brief an Garlieb H. Merkel
1798
Ms. 930a, Nr. 10, Bl. 26r-28v Schmidt-Phiseldeck, Konrad von. Brief an Garlieb H. Merkel, Kopenhagen, am 6. März 1798 Autora rokraksts / Autograph, vācu un latīņu val. / Deutsch und Latein [6] lpp. / S. Attēlu numuri / Bildnummern: 930a-010-1 – 930a-010-6 Der Verfasser äußert zum Beginn seines Briefes erneut sein Bedauern über die räumliche Trennung und wünscht sich, nach Italien zu reisen. Weimar, wo Merkel zum gegebenen Zeitpunkt wahrscheinlich weilte, glorifiziert Schmidt-Phiseldeck mit der Bezeichnung als „Weimar-Athen“. Gleichzeitig drückt der Verfasser seine Enttäuschung über die Politik Frankreichs bezüglich der Schweiz aus, erkennt aber in der Neutralität seiner neuen Heimat Dänemar…
Improving user experience via motion sensors in an Ambient Intelligence scenario
2013
Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a new paradigm in Artificial Intelligence that aims at exploiting the information about the environment state in order to adapt it to the user preferences. AmI systems are usually based on several cheap and unobtrusive sensing devices that allow for continuous monitoring in different scenarios. In this work we present a gesture recognition module for the management of an office environment using a motion sensor device, namely Microsoft Kinect, as the primary interface between the user and the AmI system. The proposed gesture recognition method is based on both RGB and depth information for detecting the hand of the user and a fuzzy rule for determining the stat…
Network embeddedness and new product development in the biopharmaceutical industry: The moderating role of open innovation flow
2015
This paper explores the role of centrality and structural holes positions on the likelihood to develop new products and the moderating role of the open innovation flow, a measure of the net knowledge flow crossing the firm’s boundaries, on the aforementioned relation. We argue that network positions provide the information content to the firm, whilst open innovation flow describes how the firm uses such content, thus the combination of these two concepts has a significant impact on new product development. We test the theoretical framework on a large sample of 544 public companies and data from 1758 agreements among 1890 bio-pharmaceutical firms through the period 2006–2010. Our results sho…
A novel hardware accelerator for the HEVC intra prediction
2015
International audience; A novel hardware accelerator for the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) intra prediction is presented in this paper in order to reduce the computation complexity within this standard and to accelerate the concerned calculations. We propose a new pipelined structure that we called Processing Element (PE) to execute all angular modes, and we repeat it in five paths that our architecture composed of. We present also another structure to carry out the Planar mode. This architecture supports all intra prediction modes for all prediction unit sizes. The synthesis results show that our design can run at 213 MHz for Xilinx Virtex 6 and is capable to process real time 120 10…