Safety profile of treatment with greenlight versus Thulium Laser for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objective: The major strengths of surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia with laser are reduced morbidity compared to endoscopic resection. No studies analysed the different risk of intra/peri-operative events between patients undergoing Thulium and GreenLight procedures.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 100 consecutive cases undergoing GreenLight vaporization and Thulium procedures performed during the learning curve of two expert endoscopic surgeons.

A new perspective on Workload Control by measuring operating performances through an economic valorization.

Workload Control (WLC) is a production planning and control system conceived to reduce queuing times of job-shop systems, and to offer a solution to the lead time syndrome; a critical issue that often bewilders make-to-order manufacturers. Nowadays, advantages of WLC are unanimously acknowledged, but real successful stories are still limited. This paper starts from the lack of a consistent way to assess performance of WLC, an important burden for its acceptance in the industry.

Comparison between prone and supine nephrolithotomy in pediatric population: a double center experience.

Purpose: Stone disease in the pediatric age is an increasing issue. Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PNL) can be used for larger and complex stones. As in adults it can be performed in the supine or prone position.

Effects of remifentanil on human C20 microglial pro-inflammatory activation.

Objective: Remifentanil (RF) is a potent short-acting μ-opioid receptor agonist. Although preferred for its unique pharmacokinetics, the clinical use may be limited by hyperalgesia. Preclinical studies have shown a potential role of microglia on the development of hyperalgesia, with limited and conflicting evidence on RF.

Engineered mucoperiosteal scaffold for cleft palate regeneration towards the non-immunogenic transplantation.

Cleft lip and palate (CL/P) is the most prevalent craniofacial birth defect in humans. None of the surgical procedures currently used for CL/P repair lead to definitive correction of hard palate bone interruption. Advances in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine aim to develop new strategies to restore palatal bone interruption by using tissue or organ-decellularized bioscaffolds seeded with host cells.