OBJECTIVES To investigate whether sacral surface therapeutic electrical stimulation (SSTES) initiated during the early postoperative period would be effective towards early recovery of postprostatectomy urinary continence. METHODS A total of 35 consecutive patients who underwent radical prostatectomy by a single surgeon were enrolled in this study. Twenty early patients began pelvic floor mus...

Definitions Equipment Recommenhations Recommendation: Vital Capacity (VC) Recommendation: Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) Recommendation: Timed Forced Expiratory Volume (FEV[) Recommendation: PEF Recommendation (Monitoring): PEF Recommendation: FEFzs-75% Recommendation: Flow (9) Recommendation: Forced Expiratory Time (FET%) Recommendation: Forced Inspiratory Vital Capacity M a n e u v e r s Recomme...

s: Background & objectives: Occupational health hazards are one of the leading causes of deaths worldwide. Food industry workers are at increased risk of chronic lung disease with prolonged exposure. The present cross sectional study was aimed at finding effects of food dust on pulmonary functions working in food industry. Methods: The present cross sectional study was conducted in McCain food ...

The 375 bp fragment of gag gene encoding fragment of matrix protein p16 of ten field isolates of maedi-visna virus (MVV) was amplified; and all the sequences were subsequently subjected to sequencing and genetic analysis. Among isolates, the homologies ranged from 87.2% to 100% and 88% to 100% at the nucleotide and amino acid level, respectively. Polish strains were more related to ovine protot...

Maedi-visna virus (MVV) is a lentivirus of sheep causing chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs (maedi) and the nervous system (visna). We have previously shown that a duplicated sequence in the long terminal repeat (LTR) of MVV is a determinant of cell tropism. Here, we demonstrate that deletion of a CAAAT sequence from either one of the repeats resulted in poor virus growth in sheep choroi...

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Vital capacity (VC), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV(1)), peak expiratory flow (PEF), mean forced expiratory flow (FEV(25-75)), and maximum voluntary volume (MVV) were measured in 36 girls and 36 boys with hearing loss and compared with the same number of normal healthy children, all subjects were aged 10-16 years. They participated in an exercise test to calculate VO(2 max) in order to de...

To evaluate the frequency ofthe causes ofexercise limitation in patients with chronic pulmonary disease and to assess the relationship between the resting pulmonary functional parameters and the degree of exercise dyspnea, we reviewed the data from 88 consecutive stable patients with chronic lung disease (62 COPD, 16 interstitial lung disease [ILD]). In each patient, the intensity of dyspnea wa...