Clinical and demographic factors associated with the effectiveness of temporomandibular joint arthroscopy.

Purpose: High success rates and minimal complications have consolidated arthroscopy as the therapeutic alternative of choice for minimally invasive treatment of internal disorders (ID) of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ). However, there is no certainty regarding the demographic and clinical factors associated with the technique's success or failure. This study was performed to analyze the effectiveness of arthroscopy regarding pain and the mandibular dynamics and also to determine whether variables such as age, sex, and preoperative Wilkes stage influence the results.

Postharvest Treatment of Hydrogen Sulfide Delays the Softening of Chilean Strawberry Fruit by Downregulating the Expression of Key Genes Involved in Pectin Catabolism.

Hydrogen sulfide (HS) plays several physiological roles in plants. Despite the evidence, the role of HS on cell wall disassembly and its implications on fleshy fruit firmness remains unknown. In this work, the effect of HS treatment on the shelf-life, cell wall polymers and cell wall modifying-related gene expression of Chilean strawberry () fruit was tested during postharvest storage.

C-arm as intraoperative control in reduction of isolated zygomatic arch fractures: a randomized clinical trial.

Purpose: Isolated zygomatic arch fractures (IZAFs) are habitually reduced at a distance, via a temporal approach. Open reductions are not recommended due to the associated morbidity and complications. However, performing closed reductions makes it difficult to determine whether it was done satisfactorily.

Hematocele secondary to rupture of an abdominoscrotal hydrocele.

Objective: To describe one case of hematocele secondary to rupture of an abdominoscrotal hydrocele in an adult patient.

Methods And Results: We report a huge hematocele in a patient with this unusual type of hydrocele that suffered a minimal scrotal trauma. It was a hydrocele that extended through the inguinal canal to the retroperitoneal space.

Percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation in treatment of overactive bladder: when should retreatment be started?

Objective: To study the response to posterior tibial nerve stimulation in patients with overactive bladder refractory to medical treatment.

Methods: A cohort of 53 patients were treated by posterior tibial nerve stimulation and followed up for a maximum of 24 months. All patients completed the International Consultation on Incontinence Modular Questionnaire-Short Form quality of life questionnaire and kept a urination diary to record the daytime urination frequency and night-time urination frequency.

Barbagli's dorsal urethroplasty. Analysis of results and factors for success.

Objectives: Dorsal urethroplasty as described by Barbagli has gained wide acceptance in the treatment of urethral stricture, given the simplification afforded by obtaining a free graft versus a flap. We present a series of 50 patients treated in our department of urethral stricture by dorsal onlay free graft urethroplasty (Barbagli's technique), in combination or not to other techniques in more complex strictures.

Methods: The average age of patients was 48.