USING EPIDIDYMAL AND TESTICULAR SPERM FROM AZOOSPERMIC MEN: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC EXPERIENCE Mehmet Oder, Ramadan A Saleh, Namita Kattal, Mohamed A Bedaiwy, Anthony J Thomas, Ashok Agarwal, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Objective: Sperm retrieval from testis and epididymis, combined with ICSI, has significantly enhanced the chances of azoospermic men to father their own genetic offspring. The impa...

STRESZCZENIE Wstęp.Aloplastyka całkowita stawu biodrowego jest procedurą wykonywaną coraz częściej. W dużej liczbie przypadków nieuchronnie znajdują się pacjenci, u których mimo pierwotnego charakteru zabiegu niezbędne jest uzupełnienie ubytków kostnych panewki stawu biodrowego. Stosowane w tych przypadkach przeszczepy kostne autoi alogenne oraz pierścienie oporowe wymagają długiego odciążania,...

Background: In the SAFE-PCI for Women trial, patient preference for radial access for future procedures was greater than for femoral access. We sought to assess whether radial or femoral access impacts formal measures of quality-of-life (QOL) among women undergoing cardiac catheterization. Methods: We assessed QOL using European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D) and EQVisual Analogue Scale (...

PURPOSE Screening for mutations in the entire Cystic Fibrosis gene (CFTR) of Brazilian infertile men with congenital absence of vas deferens, in order to prevent transmission of CFTR mutations to offspring with the use of assisted reproductive technologies. METHOD Specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers were designed to each of the 27 exons and splicing sites of interest followed by ...

the effects of adenosine,5-n-ethylcarbox-amidoadenosine (neca), 2-chloroadenosine (2-ca), n6-phenyiisopropyladenos'tne (l-pia and d-pia) and n6 -cyclohexyladenos'tne (cha) were examined on the mouse isolated vas deferens. all the compounds in a concentration-dependent manner inhibited electrically induced contrac¬tions. ic of adenosine and its analogues were 13.68 ± 5.97 for ado, 0.736 ± 0.087 ...

The rat vas deferens was removed and either transplanted alongside the soleus muscle or into the bed of the soleus muscle that had previously been removed, and in this case the soleus nerve was connected to the transplant. The vas deferens reinnervated by the somatomotor nerve recovered the best. Contractions to transmural electrical stimulation could not be elicited from the denervated vas def...