Endometrial Cancer Surgery With or Without Concomitant Stress Urinary Incontinence Surgery.

Objective: To compare quality of life (QOL) among patients with endometrial intraepithelial neoplasia or early-stage endometrial cancer and stress urinary incontinence (SUI) who chose to have concomitant surgery with cancer surgery alone.

Methods: A multicenter, prospective cohort study was conducted across eight U.S.

Mating under the influence: male Siamese fighting fish prefer EE2-exposed females.

Countless pharmaceuticals and endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) exist on the market with more added each day. Many of these compounds are not removed during the wastewater treatment process and enter bodies of water in their active form. EDCs are known to have physiological and behavioral effects in exposed organisms.

Localized rhabdomyolysis after exertion in a cardiac transplant recipient on statin therapy.

Rhabdomyolysis is a recognized but uncommon side effect of statin therapy. Pravastatin is a commonly used statin after cardiac transplantation, with favorable outcome and acceptable side-effect profile. We report a case of localized rhabdomyolysis attributed to physical exertion in a cardiac transplant recipient taking pravastatin.

HIV infection in families of HIV-positive and 'at-risk' HIV-negative women.

Research of HIV infection within the family has focused upon sexual partners and vertical transmission. The scope of the problem of multiple infections and clustering of HIV among family members has, thus far, been less extensively explored. The objectives of this study are to investigate HIV infection in family members of HIV-seropositive and HIV-seronegative high-risk women and to consider the impact of multiple HIV infections within the family.

The three-phase bone scan and exercise induced lower-leg pain. The tibial stress test.

The three-phase bone scan is finding increasing utility in acute and chronic pain syndromes in sports medicine settings. This useful technique may have significant clinical application in assessing the increasing numbers of patients with exercise induced lower leg or medial tibial pain. The authors present a case of exertional lower leg pain or medial tibial pain in which three-phase bone imaging exhibited a dramatic increase in early flow after a simple derived exercise stress.

A comparison of single-level fusions with and without hardware.

During a 47-month period, 68 patients were studied prospectively to compare single-level lumbar fusion with and without adjunctive pedicular fixation. Fusion indications were disabling back pain for a minimum of 6 months, inability to work, and failed conservative care. Twenty-nine patients fused without hardware and 39 fused with VSP fixation in identical procedures.

Hirschprung's disease: long-term follow-up of 65 cases.

The author reviews 65 cases of Hirschsprung's disease seen and treated in Saskatoon between 1951 and 1981. The annual incidence of this disease is 1/4000 live births. Overall mortality was 25% and related to two factors: (a) delay in diagnosis and surgical treatment with a high incidence of enterocolitis in the earlier years of the series; (b) a mortality of 83% in patients with small bowel aganglionosis.

Polyarthritis and bone lesions complicating traumatic pancreatitis in two children.

The association of bone lesions, polyarthritis and cutaneous nodules with pancreatic disease is being recognized and reported more frequently. In adults all forms of pancreatitis and carcinoma of the pancreas have been involved, but in the few children described these complications have been associated with acute traumatic pancreatitis. This paper describes two cases of acute traumatic pancreatitis in which polyarthritis and limb pains were noted after 2 to 3 weeks.

Neonatal hypoglycemia resulting from islet cell adenomatosis. Successful treatment with total pancreatectomy.

A female infant developed apneic spells due to hypoglycemia at 73 hours of life. It was impossible to maintain the blood glucose level despite continuous intravenously given dextrose, cortisone, diazoxide, and a low-leucine diet. A subtotal pancreatectomy was performed but there was no evidence of islet cell adenoma.