OBJECTIVE The treatment of female stress urinary incontinence has undergone a revolution in recent years due the emergence on the market of suburethral slings. The aim of this study is to compare two surgical techniques for treating stress urinary incontinence: Monarc™ (transobturator suburethral sling) and MiniArc(®) (single-incision suburethral mini-sling). MATERIAL AND METHODS Comparative,...

Two 21-day feeding trials were conducted using either 24 Hampshire (H) or 24 Chester White (CW) pigs at approximately 5 months of age to evaluate the effects of a diet containing 40% dried whey on the performance and the lactase activities in the gut of finishing pigs. Dried whey increased the incidence and severity of diarrhea in both CW and H (P<.005) but depressed the rate of gain, gain/feed...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Postoperative pelvic adhesions are associated with chronic pelvic pain, dyspareunia, and infertility. The aim of this study was to evaluate the adhesion prevention effects of tranexamic acid (TA) and hyaluronate/carboxymethylcellulose (HA/CMC) barrier in the rat uterine horn models on the basis of macroscopic and microscopic adhesion scores and histopathological as wel...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the influence of preservation of the muscular internal sphincter and proximal urethra on continence recovery after radical prostatectomy (RP). MATERIAL AND METHODS Fifty-five consecutive patients with organ confined prostate cancer were submitted to RP with the preservation of muscular internal sphincter and the proximal urethra (group 1) and compared to 55 patients sub...

PURPOSE The purpose of this sub-analysis was to compare the early recovery of elderly patients following coronary artery bypass surgery (CABS) by geographic location (urban/rural) on physical functioning and physical activity. METHODS The sample was 124 subjects who had been in the usual care group (or control group) of a randomized controlled trial. Subjects were categorized into geographic ...

Results The prevalence of various pregnancy complications was 8. 6% for birth prematurely, 9. 2% for hypertension or preeclampsia, IUGR 5. 8% and 7. 3% for loss pregnancy. PAPP A levels were lower in fetal loss group (P = 0. 005), vascular disease group(P = 0. 001) and preterm delivery group(P = 0. 001). In addition, a lower rate of bHCG was associated with the occurrence of placental pathologi...