PURPOSE Many treatment options to help relieve the symptoms of interstitial cystitis (IC) are available, but none are effective. Because no reports of transurethral ulcer resection with hydrodistention are available, we assessed the effects of such combined surgery for ulcerative IC. MATERIALS AND METHODS Between June 2006 and June 2011, 87 female patients with IC who underwent transurethral ...

STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart review. PURPOSE To assess whether spontaneous reduction of spondylolisthesis, as seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is related to the degree of segmental instability and low back pain. OVERVIEW OF LITERATURE The flexion-extension radiographs obtained in the sagittal plane are frequently used when segmental instability of spondylolisthesis is evaluated...

BACKGROUND Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) is the most-used agent for intravesical instillation. We conducted this retrospective clinical study to determine in what type of the interstitial cystitis (IC)/bladder pain syndrome (BPS) DMSO was effective. METHODS We combined DMSO with hydrodistension in 2003 and from 2004 we performed hydrodistension alone. Hydrodistension had been performed in 7 cases ...

BACKGROUND Irreparable peroneal tendon tears are uncommon and require complex surgical decision making. Intercalary segment allograft reconstruction has been previously described as a treatment option; however, there are no reports of the outcomes of this technique in the literature. We describe our technique and present our results using this method. METHODS A retrospective chart review was ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate the Lapidus procedure or it's modifications for treatment of recurrent hallux valgus (HV). Our hypothesis was that the Lapidus procedure would achieve good correction of recurrent HV and patients would be satisfied. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective review of 32 feet (30 patients) treated with the Lapidus procedure for recurrent HV wi...

100% and pansinusitis. They needed antibiotic scheme. At 2 years in 83.3% had a VAS.7. At 58.3% had pansinusitis. The bronchial relapse did not increase. We determined the presence of VAS. 7 and pansinusitis (OR 1⁄4 4). The bronchial relapse did not influence with increasing VAS (OR 1⁄4 1). Conclusions: Nasal symptoms persistent were secondary to the nasal polyps and pansinusitis with higher le...

Virtual auditory space (VAS) stimuli based on outer ear transfer functions became increasingly important in spatial hearing research. However, few studies have investigated the match between responses of auditory neurons to VAS and free-field (FF) stimulation. This study validates acoustic spatial receptive fields (SRFs) of 183 individual midbrain units using both VAS and FF stimuli. The first-...

This paper proposes three synthetic-type control charts to monitor the mean time-between-events of a homogenous Poisson process. The first proposed chart combines an Erlang (cumulative time between events, Tr ) chart and a conforming run length (CRL) chart, denoted as Synth-Tr chart. The second proposed chart combines an exponential (or T) chart and a group conforming run length (GCRL) chart, d...

Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens (CBAVD) is found in most males with cystic fibrosis (CF), but this malformation can be observed without any pulmonary or digestive features. We have analyzed 13 exons of the CF gene in a cohort of 25 CBAVD patients. Among the 50 chromosomes studied, 24 mutations were identified: delta F508 (14 cases), R117H (7 cases), R1070W (2 cases), 621 + 1 G ...