Are urodynamics still useful?

Flail chest: are common definition and management protocols still useful?

We eagerly read and appreciate your weighty journal’s hint on the subject flail chest in the April 2010 issue [1]. We wish to respectfully comment on this subject, since we strongly suppose that some of our observations and experience of flail chest in our centre, with a heavy workload to contend with, [2] may be of great interest and useful in this field. Flail chest is a problem whose definit...

Heart failure clinics are still useful (more than ever?).

Heart failure (HF) clinics have had an important role in optimal HF management and the effectiveness of these clinics has been studied intensively. A HF clinic is one of the various ways to organize a HF disease management program. There is good evidence that HF disease management can improve outcomes in HF patients, but it is not clear what the optimal components of these programs are and what...

Is Rectosigmoid Vaginoplasty Still Useful?

BACKGROUND The ideal vaginoplasty must be successful functionally as well as have a natural appearance, and also must retain its functionality and appearance over the long term. Conventional vaginoplasty techniques have functional limitations and are associated with recurrent complications, but rectosigmoid vaginoplasty is known to have a high satisfaction rate due to its functional similarity ...

The K veim response: still useful, still a puzzle.

Preoperative electrocardiograms: obsolete or still useful?

THE anticipated value of the preoperative electrocardiogram for the assessment of perioperative cardiac risk has changed over the past decades. Initial risk scores included preoperative electrocardiogram variables as a prognostic factor for the occurrence of perioperative cardiac events; in recent years, however, the value of a routine preoperative electrocardiogram has been questioned. The cur...