BACKGROUND The use of posterior capsular plication to decrease capsular volume and address capsular laxity for treatment of posterior instability, multidirectional instability, or as an additional technique in the treatment of anterior instability is common. Multiple different suturing techniques have been described. HYPOTHESIS The simple stitch will have inferior biomechanical properties com...

Urinary incontinence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is one of the most bothersome complications affecting patients' daily lives. The efficacy of the bladder neck plication stitch technique in promoting an earlier return of continence was prospectively evaluated in 158 patients who underwent RARP for clinically localized prostate cancer by a single surgeon at our institute fro...

BACKGROUND The cervicomental (CM) angle is formed by the horizontal plane of the submental region and the vertical plane of the neck. OBJECTIVE To compare the 2-dimensional effect of 4 surgical techniques on the CM angle in a human cadaver model. DESIGN Anatomic presurgical and postsurgical comparative study performed on human cadavers preserved with ethylene glycol. SETTING Academic medi...

BACKGROUND To evaluate our experience of early surgical plication for diaphragmatic eventration (DE) in infancy and childhood. METHODS This study evaluated infants and children with symptomatic DE who underwent plication through an open transthoracic approach in our childhood development department between January 2005 and December 2012. Surgical plication was performed in several rows using ...

The United States and Canada are two countries that share many similarities as those in Europe. However, while geographic proximity, similar economic structure and shared histories are what some argue led European countries to converge upon a common method of financing health care post-WWII, the same variables have not produced this between the United States and Canada. This is puzzling, becaus...

A recent draft by Victor Haghani and Richard Dewey [1] describes an experiment where participants were given initial wealth, a coin of known bias, and could bet a (variable) proportion of their in-game wealth on a sequence of flips of this coin. Assuming log utility and uncapped reward, the optimal strategy is to bet as per the Kelly strategy. Interestingly, the participants in general did not ...

If organisations are seen as complex evolving systems, co-evolving within a social ‘ecosystem’, then our thinking about strategy and management changes. With the changed perspective comes a different way of acting and relating which could lead to a different way of working. In turn, the new types of relationship and approaches to work could well provide the conditions for the emergence of new o...

Elevation of the penis and scrotum after scrotal and pelvic surgery has the salutory effects of facilitating the resolution of postoperative swelling while simultaneously preventing the development of dependent edema. Previously, the desired degree of postoperative genital suspension has been achieved by employing an athletic supporter and by placing towel rolls beneath the scrotum. These measu...