Muinuddin, Ahmad, Youhou Kang, Herbert Y. Gaisano, and Nicholas E. Diamant. Regional differences in L-type Ca channel expression in feline lower esophageal sphincter. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 287: G772–G781, 2004. First published June 3, 2004; 10.1152/ajpgi.00102.2004.—In humans and cats, muscle from the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) circular region exhibits greater spontaneou...

INTRODUCTION Although uncommon, postprocedural pain with associated sexual dysfunction may be seen in patients after retropubic midurethral sling placement for treatment of stress urinary incontinence. AIMS To describe a report of a woman who developed localized severe, persistent periclitoral pain after placement of a retropubic midurethral sling. METHODS A healthy 41-year-old underwent an...

Literature reports the frequent use of shoulder slings by occupational therapists for the management of shoulder subluxation after stroke despite the low evidence for its efficacy. To understand the clinical contexts that defy current research evidence, a survey was distributed among California occupational therapists. One hundred sixty-eight participants responded to the survey, answering ques...

Objectives. To examine what changes are caused in the activity of the vastus medialis oblique (VMO) and vastus lateralis (VL) at the time of sling-based exercises in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) and compare the muscular activations in patients with PFPS among the sling-based exercises. Methods. This was a cross-over study. Sling-based open and closed kinetic knee extension ...

We describe SLING, a framework for parsing natural language into semantic frames. SLING supports general transition-based, neural-network parsing with bidirectional LSTM input encoding and a Transition Based Recurrent Unit (TBRU) for output decoding. The parsing model is trained end-to-end using only the text tokens as input. The transition system has been designed to output frame graphs direct...

PURPOSE We report our experience with the diagnosis and treatment of refractory synthetic sling complications in women. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of consecutive women with failed treatments for mesh sling complications. Before and after surgery the patients completed validated questionnaires and voiding diaries, and underwent uroflow with post-void residuals, pad tes...

OBJECTIVE To assess the technical feasibility of mini-invasive sling procedure and present preliminary results in the treatment of urinary incontinence due to sphincteric insufficiency. MATERIALS AND METHODS Thirteen patients (6 males, 7 females, 8 with myelomeningocele, 1 with tethered spinal cord, 3 with bladder exstrophy, 1 with epispadias) underwent sling procedure with porcine dermis ace...

PURPOSE We characterized continence, satisfaction and adverse events in women at least 5 years after Burch urethropexy or fascial sling with longitudinal followup of randomized clinical trial participants. MATERIALS AND METHODS Of 655 women who participated in a randomized surgical trial comparing the efficacy of the Burch and sling treatments 482 (73.6%) enrolled in this long-term observatio...

A 52-year-old man presented with purulent drainage from the scrotum and medial superior left thigh approximately 5 months after a second surgical procedure to remove fragments of an AdVanceTM male sling from the left thigh. Medical history began 6 years earlier when he underwent robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy for high grade prostate cancer. One year postoperatively he was treated wit...

Aims of Study The male perineal sling is a relatively new procedure for post prostatectomy incontinence that can be performed entirely through a perineal incision on an outpatient basis. Short-term results have been encouraging with 70% of patients becoming dry and another 10% showing improvement. (1) No urinary retention has been encountered. As with other sling procedures, the exact mechanism...