OBJECTIVE Patients can experience urinary retention (UR) after Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) that requires bladder distension during the procedure. The aim of this retrospective study is to identify factors affecting the UR after HoLEP. MATERIALS AND METHODS 336 patients, which underwent HoLEP for a symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia between July 2008 and March 2012,...

Purpose Patients frequently undergo radical cystectomy and urinary diversion for treatment of bladder cancer. However, they remain at risk of urethral recurrence (UR). Studies have determined various risk factors leading to urethral recurrence. However, no publications have weighed the predictive values of these factors. Materials and Methods Studies published between 1971 and 2016 were retri...

UR UNDERSTA N D I N G of the development of sleep patterns in adolescents has a dvanced considerably in the last 20 years. Along the way, theoretical models of the processes underly i n g the biological regulation of sleep have improved, and certain assumptions and dogmas have been examined and found wanting. Although the full characterization of teen sleep regulation remains to be acc o m p l ...

In (1a), an epenthetic vowel is inserted in a word-final cluster: /melk/ → melex. In (1b), [ ] deletes in the coda position. As shown in (1c), the interaction of the epenthesis and deletion has been traditionally analyzed in terms of the counter-bleeding order: UR /des / first undergoes the epenthesis and then the epenthesized intermediate form [des e ] undergoes -deletion, deriving the surface...

O UR PREVIOUS OBSERVATIONS have shown that intraperitoneal administration of autohemolysates accelerates the recovery from anemia in bled dogs.13 On the basis of this and other experimental data4#{176} we reconsidered the hypothesis7’8 that red cell constituents have an erythropoietic stimulatory effect.1’6 However, it has been suggested that the above findings are due, instead, to the availabi...

Following a waste-to-wealth approach, humic acid (HA) was exploited as flame retardant additive. The effect of its addition alone and in combination with urea (UR) ammonium polyphosphate (APP) on the thermal, fire, mechanical performances bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (DGEBA)-based epoxy resin modified (3-aminopropyl)-triethoxysilane (AP) cured aliphatic isophoronediamine (IDA) has been investig...