OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of white reflecting material (slings) hung from the sides of compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) phototherapy equipment in reducing the duration of phototherapy in healthy term neonates with non-hemolytic jaundice. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING Postnatal ward of a tertiary level neonatal unit. PARTICIPANTS AND INTERVENTION Healthy term neonates ...

The wide variety of hemiplegic sling designs, the lack of a uniform approach to sling selection, and the paucity of research data in this area have tended to make prescribing a sling a subjective process. Based on clinical experience and a comprehensive literature review, the authors propose a checklist for examining hemiplegic slings. The Checklist, which includes 19 desirable and 4 undesirabl...

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 ...

Factors including suburethral blood flow impairment, collagen deficiency, and the lack of tissue healing factors are known to play a role in stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Autologous fibrin (AF) appears be viable material for treatment SUI. The aim this study was present initial clinical outcomes novel technique named “Demirtas? Erciyes-Mid Urethral Fibrin Fixation Technique (DE-MUFFT)” tha...

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...