Perceptions among diabetic patients in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community regarding medication adherence: a qualitative study.

Background: Promoting a healthy lifestyle and achieving strict adherence to medical treatment among patients with diabetes are key objectives in public health. Yet health behaviors are often culturally driven, especially in closed religious communities. This study seeks to reveal key cultural-religious factors, attitudes and behaviors characterizing the lifestyle in one such closed community-the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community-by understanding the attitudes of ultra-Orthodox patients with diabetes toward coping with their illness and the factors impacting their adherence to medicinal treatment.

Single-Cycle Atomic Layer Deposition on Bulk Wood Lumber for Managing Moisture Content, Mold Growth, and Thermal Conductivity.

Wood is a universal building material. While highly versatile, many of its critical properties vary with water content (e.g.

Simultaneous measurement of in-plane and through-plane thermal conductivity using beam-offset frequency domain thermoreflectance.

Transient thermoreflectance (TTR) techniques are ubiquitous methods for measuring thermal conductivity of bulk materials and thin-films. Both through-plane thermal conductivity k and in-plane thermal conductivity k should be independently measured in transversely anisotropic materials. When these properties are measured using conventional TTR techniques, the accuracy of the k measurement is dependent on the accuracy of measuring k and vice versa.

Men with organ-confined prostate cancer and positive surgical margins develop biochemical failure at a similar rate to men with extracapsular extension.

Objectives: To define the role of positive surgical margins (PSMs) after radical retropubic prostatectomy as a predictor of biochemical failure (BCF) in prostate cancer with respect to pathologic stage.

Methods: A retrospective cohort study of 300 patients who had undergone radical retropubic prostatectomy from 1993 to 1995 was performed. The role of margin status and the length of the PSM in the progression to BCF was defined after controlling for the preoperative prostate-specific antigen level, Gleason score, tumor stage, tumor volume, seminal vesical invasion, lymphovascular invasion, and perineural invasion using a multivariate regression model.

Sacral ectopic phallus in a case of extreme penoscrotal transposition and bladder agenesis.

This is the first report of a surviving male patient with several rare anomalies including a sacral ectopic phallus, extreme penoscrotal transposition, solitary duplex kidney, and bladder agenesis.

Impact of preoperative endorectal MRI stage classification on neurovascular bundle sparing aggressiveness and the radical prostatectomy positive margin rate.

Introduction: Inability to accurately determine extracapsular extension (ECE) and neurovascular bundle (NVB) tumor involvement prior to or during radical prostatectomy (RP) remains problematic. Laparoscopic prostatectomy has the additional challenge of lack of tactile tumor assessment. Our goal is to determine the impact of preoperative endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (eMRI) staging upon NVB sparing aggressiveness and the RP surgical margin rate.

Laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair during laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Objective: To describe our experience of simultaneous laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) and inguinal hernia repair (LIHR) with a non-absorbable mesh, as there are few reports of simultaneous herniorrhaphy during LRP.

Patients And Methods: Forty patients who had simultaneous LIHR and LRP were retrospectively reviewed. All operations were completed via antegrade techniques using a non-absorbable mesh for the LIHR, as the results with absorbable mesh were disappointing.

Transperitoneal versus extraperitoneal approach to laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: an assessment of 156 cases.

Objectives: To compare the results of 122 transperitoneal laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (TP-LRP) procedures with those of 34 extraperitoneal LRP (EP-LRP) procedures to assess for differences in outcomes and complications. Both TP-LRP and EP-LRP have been touted as effective techniques for performing LRP.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 156 LRPs performed by a single surgeon (D.

Laparoscopic radical prostatectomy and body mass index: an assessment of 151 sequential cases.

Purpose: Little objective data are available regarding obesity and the performance of laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP). We reviewed our LRP series to determine the effect of body mass index (BMI) on operative time, blood loss, anastomotic leakage, positive margins, length of stay, complications, urinary continence and erectile function.

Materials And Methods: A single institution retrospective review was performed of 151 sequential LRPs performed by a single surgeon.

Relationship between semen cultures, leukospermia, and semen analysis in men undergoing fertility evaluation.

Objective: To determine the correlation between semen cultures, semen Gram stains, leukospermia, and semen analysis parameters in asymptomatic men undergoing fertility evaluation.

Design: Prospective clinical study.

Settings: Infertility clinic at a university teaching hospital.