PURPOSE We analyzed the evolution of detrusor overactivity in patients with bladder outlet obstruction treated with either medical or surgical therapy or watchful waiting. MATERIALS AND METHODS Of 255 patients with symptomatic benign prostatic enlargement who completed the International Prostate Symptom Score and underwent full urodynamic investigation 161 presented with bladder outlet obstru...

We propose a way to abstract from various specifications of authentication and to obtain idealized protocols “secure by construction”. This feature enables us to prove that a cryptographic protocol is the correct implementation of the corresponding abstract protocol. Our proposal relies on the combination of two authentication primitives, proposed by the authors in [20, 18] to a simplified vers...

Exposure misclassification in longitudinal studies of air pollution exposure and health effects can occur due to residential mobility in a study population over followup. The aim of this study was to investigate to what extent residential mobility during followup can be expected to cause exposure misclassification in such studies, where exposure at the baseline address is used as the main expos...

BACKGROUND Trapeziometacarpal joint osteoarthritis is a painful, disabling condition that primarily affects women who are postmenopausal. Arthroplasty has been performed to treat this condition; however, subluxation has been a problem with all previous implants. We report the results of hemiarthroplasty using a prosthesis designed to address the problems associated with previous implants. QUE...