An inelastic retropubic suburethral sling in women with intrinsic sphincter deficiency.

Introduction And Hypothesis: We evaluated outcomes of an inelastic retropubic sling in patients with intrinsic sphincteric deficiency (ISD).

Methods: This is a retrospective review of women diagnosed with ISD according to urodynamic parameters who underwent a retropubic suburethral sling surgery using a tape with minimal elasticity. All patients in the study where followed up at 2, 6, and 24 weeks and yearly.

[Stays in Paris of professors and students from the Faculty of Pharmacy of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 1900-1936].

In the early twentieth century, if there were an European Capital of biomedical research, it was definitely Paris. It was in this city where microbiology was born in the 19th century due to the crucial influence of Louis Pasteur. In 1888 he founded the Pasteur Institute in Paris where the rabies vaccine, that Pasteur himself had discovered in 1885, was administrated.

The relationship between anthropometric measurements and the bony pelvis in African American and European American women.

Introduction And Hypothesis: The bony pelvis anatomy is highly variable. This study aims to examine the relationship between anthropometric measurements and the size of the adult female bony pelvis.

Methods: Three-dimensional points of all pertinent landmarks of 96 adult female bony pelvises were obtained and the true conjugate, interspinous distance, intertuberous distance, and pelvic inlet and outlet areas were calculated.

[Contribution of the faculty of pharmacy of Santiago de Compostela to the development of the Spanish scientific research in the first third of the 20th century (1900-1936)].

The Faculty of Pharmacy of Santiago de Compostela was founded in 1857, but research activities did not start until the beginning of the 20th century. The new Spanish regulations promoting the experimentation at universities and the stages of professors and recently graduated students outside Spain contributed to generate a remarkable research group in a provincial university. The excessive university centralism at that time in Spain and the characteristics of the headquarters of the faculty -- a 16th century Renaissance palace -- hindered, in general, the research development.

An inexpensive polypropylene patch sling for treatment of intrinsic sphincteric deficiency.

Study Objective: To evaluate an inexpensive polypropylene sling in patients with intrinsic sphincteric deficiency (ISD).

Design: Case series (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Cleveland Clinic Florida teaching hospital.

Variation of the obturator foramen and pubic arch of the female bony pelvis.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine dimensions of the obturator foramen and pubic arch of the female pelvis and to assess for variability.

Study Design: Ninety-six female pelvises were selected from the Cleveland Natural History Museum. The obturator foramen area, pubic arch angle, pubic ramus, pubic symphysis, and anterior urogenital triangle area were measured.

Complications of neglected vaginal pessaries: case presentation and literature review.

Vaginal pessaries are often used as first-line management of pelvic organ prolapse in women who are poor surgical candidates or who decline surgical repair. Mostly, pessaries are well tolerated but when neglected may lead to serious complications including vesicovaginal and rectovaginal fistulas. An 89-year-old woman presented with a large vesicovaginal fistula resulting from a Gellhorn pessary that had been neglected for 3 years.

Pharmacological properties of citrus and their ancient and medieval uses in the Mediterranean region.

This paper reviews the pharmacological properties of Mediterranean-grown citrus species (Citrus L., Rutaceae), including citron (Citrus medica L.), lime (Citrus xauantiifolia [Christm.