OBJECTIVES To evaluate acute and long-term urinary morbidity after permanent prostate brachytherapy at a single tertiary care center. To minimize the risk of long-term urinary morbidity, it is important for clinicians to be able to distinguish acute urinary side effects after prostate brachytherapy from longer-term treatment-related urinary complications. METHODS The medical records of 351 co...

review and classification of electric load forecasting (lf) techniques based on artificial neuralnetworks (ann) is presented. a basic anns architectures used in lf reviewed. a wide range of annoriented applications for forecasting are given in the literature. these are classified into five groups:(1) anns in short-term lf, (2) anns in mid-term lf, (3) anns in long-term lf, (4) hybrid anns inlf,...

Rhesus haemolytic disease of the newborn can lead to complications such as hyperbilirubinaemia, kernicterus and anaemia. Postnatal management consists mainly of intensive phototherapy, exchange transfusion and blood transfusion. During the last decades, significant progress in prenatal care strategies for patients with Rhesus haemolytic disease has occurred. New prenatal management options have...

Laparoscopic repair of incisional and ventral hernias has increased in popularity due to reduced pain, shorter length of stay and earlier return to work. Dynamesh Intraperitoneal onlay mesh (IPOM), a composite of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) coated polypropylene (PP) was designed to utilize the properties of both materials. This retrospective study reports a single surgeon experience with la...

background port site complications following elective surgery are rare and port site infections remain the most common short long term complications. objectives the study was conducted to analyze port site complications occurring in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic cholelithiasis. patients and methods ninety patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy were r...