Publications by authors named "E J Melvin"
Background: Psychiatric treatment of psychosis often comprises therapeutic and psychotropic combinations. Dramatherapy is often utilised in health services with this population, particularly when clients struggle to engage with talking therapies because of complex presentations, experience preverbal trauma, neurodiversity challenges and/or communication difficulties. Dramatherapy as a therapeutic intervention is recognised by health regulating bodies but as yet has not yet been systematically reviewed.
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- - This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to find the best prophylactic antibiotic regimen to reduce urinary tract infections (UTIs) in patients receiving botulinum toxin (BTX) injections for overactive bladder (OAB), as there are currently no evidence-based guidelines on the topic.
- - The researchers reviewed 27 studies involving 2,100 patients, primarily focusing on idiopathic OAB, and found that while no studies made direct comparisons of different antibiotic regimens, there was a general preference for using antibiotics for 2-3 days post-injection.
- - The analysis revealed a 10% UTI rate at 4 weeks and 15% at 12 weeks after the injection, indicating that more research is necessary to
Objective: To compare the rates of health care utilization (office messages or calls, office visits, and emergency department [ED] visits) and postoperative complications within 30 days after surgery between patients with successful voiding trials on postoperative day 0 and those with unsuccessful voiding trials on postoperative day 0 and between patients with successful and unsuccessful voiding trials on postoperative day 1. Secondary objectives were to identify risk factors for unsuccessful voiding trials on postoperative days 0 and 1 and to explore the feasibility of catheter self-discontinuation by assessing for any complications associated with at-home catheter self-discontinuation on postoperative day 1.
Methods: This study was a prospective observational cohort study of women undergoing outpatient urogynecologic or minimally invasive gynecologic surgery for benign indications at one academic practice from August 2021 to January 2022.
The conserved Tweety homolog (TTYH) family consists of three paralogs in vertebrates, displaying a ubiquitous expression pattern. Although considered as ion channels for almost two decades, recent structural and functional analyses refuted this role. Intriguingly, while all paralogs shared a dimeric stoichiometry following detergent solubilization, their structures revealed divergence in their relative subunit orientation.
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