OBJECTIVES To present the method used to evaluate the cost effectiveness, from the societal perspective, of transurethral microwave thermotherapy relative to medical therapy (alpha-blocking agents) and transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for a hypothetical cohort of 65-year-old men with moderate-to-severe benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) symptoms. METHODS We constructed a decisio...

PURPOSE Chronic prostatitis (CP) does not yet have a universally successful therapy. Alternative treatments including thermotherapy have been adopted in the multimodal management of pain and voiding dysfunction. We retrospectively analyzed the therapeutic efficacy of bipolar radiofrequency thermotherapy for patients who were unsatisfied with conventional medication for CP. MATERIALS AND METHO...

Fifty patients with temporomandibular pain dysfunction syndrome were examined. Seventy-eight percent and 32 percent were female and male respectively. The white collar workers were more frequently affected. Emotional stress, dental malocclusion and a history of trauma were the main causes. Treatment consists of reassurance, relaxed jaw movements and exercises, anxiolytic drugs, thermotherapy, b...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of chemoreduction alone and chemoreduction with thermotherapy for macular retinoblastoma. DESIGN Prospective, nonrandomized, single-center case series. SETTING Ocular Oncology Service at Wills Eye Hospital of Thomas Jefferson University in conjunction with the Division of Oncology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Pa). PARTICIPANTS There w...

Abstract Mn-Zn ferrite has been widely used in cancer therapy. In this paper, CNTs/Mn-Zn composites with different CNT contents were synthesized using the co-precipitation process and then sintered into bulk materials by SPS. The nanoparticles have good heating temperature control effects under an alternating magnetic field. Furthermore, thermoelectric properties. correlation between mechanism ...

We investigated the penetration and thermotherapy efficiency of different surface coated gold nanorods (Au NRs) in multicellular tumor spheroids. The current data show that negatively charged Au NRs, other than positively charged Au NRs, can penetrate deep into the tumor spheroids and achieve a significant thermal therapeutic benefit.