Longitudinal assessment of sleep and fatigue according to baby feeding method in postpartum women: a prospective observational study.

Background: Poor subjective sleep quality, depressive symptoms and fatigue occur frequently in postpartum. However, the dynamics of their respective associations from prepartum throughout the maternity period in function of baby feeding method have not been fully elucidated.

Methods: Prospective, longitudinal study using validated questionnaires probing for sleep quality, insomnia, fatigue and depressive symptoms at 35-37 weeks of gestation and at 2, 8 and 12 weeks postpartum in the obstetric departments of two Flemish hospitals.

Comparison of Clinical Performance Between Two Types of Symmetric-Tip Hemodialysis Catheters: A Single-Centre, Randomized Trial.

Purpose: To compare the clinical performance of a newly designed, symmetric-tip Arrow-Clark™ VectorFlow® tunnelled haemodialysis catheter, with a Glidepath™, symmetric-tip tunnelled haemodialysis catheter.

Material And Methods: From November 2018 to October 2020, patients with End-Stage Renal Disease requiring a de novo tunnelled catheter for hemodialysis, were randomized to Vectorflow® (n = 50) or to Glidepath™ catheter (n = 48). The primary outcome was catheter patency at one year following catheter insertion.

Therapeutic lymphangiography with ethiodized oil for the management of lymphoceles and chylous ascites.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to analyze the safety, technical success and clinical outcome of percutaneous intranodal ethiodized oil (Lipiodol®) based lymphangiography (L-LAG) for the management of refractory pelvic lymphoceles or chylous ascites using high doses of ethiodized oil.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-four patients presenting with symptomatic, refractory postoperative pelvic lymphocele or chylous ascites referred for theranostic, inguinal, intranodal L-LAG treatment between May 2018 and November 2021 were retrospectively included. There were 21 men and 13 women, with a mean age of 62.

Coil Embolization of True, Common and Proper, Hepatic Artery Aneurysms: Technique, Safety and Outcome.

Purpose: To retrospectively assess the safety and efficacy of coil embolization for catheter-directed true common and proper hepatic artery aneurysm exclusion.

Materials And Methods: Nine consecutive patients (2005-2021) in two university centers presenting with true common and proper hepatic artery aneurysms (> 2 cm in diameter) were treated with 'frontdoor-backdoor' coil embolization. Patients presenting with a hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm, mycotic aneurysm or patients with small (< 2 cm diameter) aneurysms and followed up by imaging were excluded.

Safety and efficacy of software-assisted MRI-TRUS fusion-guided transperineal prostate biopsy in an outpatient setting using local anaesthesia.

Purpose: To evaluate diagnostic accuracy, safety, and efficiency of an MRI-TRUS fusion-guided transperineal prostate biopsy method in an outpatient setting under local anaesthesia.

Methods: Patients undergoing transperineal prostate biopsy were included from March 2021 to May 2022. Biopsies were performed under local anaesthesia in an outpatient setting, using specialised fusion software.