Objectives: A well performed vesico-urethral anastomosis (VUA) allows an early catheter removal and cystography is mandatory to exclude urinary extravasation. Aim of the study is to investigate whether transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS) is as reliable as cystography in detecting anastomotic leakage after radical retropubic prostatectomy (RRP) in order to avoid the use of X-rays. Methods: 50 pat...

AIM In this study we aim to determine the frequency of Inlet Patch (IP) and its association to clinical symptoms and draw attention to be aware of this heterotopic gastric mucosa. METHODS This study was a prospective case series that IP was detected in the upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. Patients with laringopharyngeal reflux symptoms underwent endoscopy between March 2009 and July 2012 in ...

To the Editor: I read with interest the article by Furlan & Brueur on "Central Nervous System Complications of Open Heart Surgery". DDA is a variant of atherosclerosis which includes patients with "brittle aortas" wherein showers of cholesterol emboli repeatedly occur spontaneously or from trauma. I believe it is possible that a relatively high percentage of patients who suffered major embolic ...

117 Rev Esp Quimioter 2011;24(3):117-122 Fungal infections have very serious implications and are most likely to affect patients with a hematological malignancy. Hematological malignancy patients frequently develop invasive fungal infection (IFI) caused by filamentous fungi and may be considered as subjects to the risk prototype. The intensity and duration of neutropenia, the diagnosis of acute...

Atherosclerotic and medial vascular calcifications are frequent in chronic renal failure patiens and predict their increased cardiovascular mortality. Experimental models for mice have been recently developed in order to study these disorders. The aim of this paper is to present the morphological image processing algorithms developed for the semi-automated measurement of calcification from sect...

BACKGROUND Price's social competition hypothesis interprets the depressive state as an unconscious, involuntary losing strategy, which enables individuals to yield and accept defeat in competitive situations. AIMS We investigated whether patients who suffer from major depressive disorder (MDD) would avoid competition more often than either patients suffering from borderline personality disord...

Evaluating the subtypes of panic disorder by using principal component analysis Objective: Panic disorder is put forward to have a heterogeneous structure and multiple subtypes. Evaluating the different subtypes is important for diagnosis, treatment and prognosis. Studies about the quantitative psychopathology assessment are so rare. We aim to determine the subtypes with principal component ana...

ABSTRACT The most significant otologic symptoms, consisting of ear pain, tinnitus, dizziness, hearing loss and auricolar "fullness", generally arise within the auditory system, often are associated with extra auricolar disorders, particularly disorder of the temporo-mandibular joint. In our study we examined a sample of 200 consecutive patients who had experienced severe disabling symptom. The ...