Access to Urogynecologic Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers: A Mystery Caller Study.

Importance: Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) play an important role in providing care to underserved populations. However, little is known about the availability of urogynecology services at FQHCs.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the availability of appointments for urogynecology care and to determine the prevalence of FQHCs offering urogynecologic services.

Pregnancy and Outcomes After Prolapse Surgery: A Case Series.

Importance: There are limited data on whether pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery is durable after subsequent delivery.

Objectives: The aims of this study were to evaluate the safety and durability of POP surgery after delivery and to describe the medical decision-making and clinical outcomes of patients who gave birth after POP surgery.

Study Design: This study is a retrospective case series of patients who underwent surgery for symptomatic POP between 2007 and 2017, and subsequently had a live birth.

Medicare Patient Referral Networks to Pelvic Floor Physical Therapy Across the United States.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the distribution of referrals to pelvic floor physical therapy throughout the United States and to identify specialties with the highest and lowest referral rates. Referral networks to pelvic floor physical therapy were identified, and factors associated with referral connections were determined.

Methods: This retrospective network analysis of referrals examined U.

Translation and linguistic validation of the Female Genitourinary Pain Index in Spanish.

Introduction And Hypothesis: We sought to develop a Spanish translation of the Female Genitourinary Pain Index (GUPI) and to validate this instrument in US Latina women.

Methods: Translation back-translation was performed to create the initial Spanish version. Bilingual women with pelvic and/or genitourinary pain were recruited from clinical sites and social media.

Disseminated Mycobacterium kansasii in an HIV-negative patient.

Disseminated Mycobacterium kansasii infection is a rare infection in non-HIV patients. This research has uncovered a very rare manifestation of disseminated M. kansasii infection in a non-HIV patient with lung and pericardial involvement.

Utility of Gastric Lavage for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Patients who are Unable to Expectorate Sputum.

Background: There are number of patients who are unable to expectorate sputum specimens. In this study, we used gastric lavage (GL) test for diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in patients who were unable to produce sputum.

Materials And Methods: Patients who were unable to produce sputum specimens were included in the study to confirm TB disease.