Pressure reduction and suction characteristics of the new digital single use flexible ureteroscope with suction: an in-vitro experimental study.

Purpose: To assess the time taken by the single use 7.5Fr suction flexible ureteroscope to reduce pressure under 40 mm Hg and to characterize the behavior of stones, fragments and dust during suction activation.

Methods: An in vitro setting was developed for this experiment.

A randomized clinical trial of home telemonitoring in patients with advanced heart and lung diseases.

Brief Summary: The addition of home monitoring to an integrated care model in patients with advanced chronic heart/lung diseases decreases mortality, hospital and emergency admissions, improves functional status, HRQoL, and is cost-effective.

Background: Telemonitoring is a promising implement for medicine, but its efficacy is unknown in patients with advanced heart and lung failure (AHLF).

Objective: To determine the efficacy of a telemonitoring system added to coordinated clinical care in patients with AHLF.

Beyond the Educational Context: Relevance of Intrinsic Reading Motivation During COVID-19 Confinement in Spain.

What role could have intrinsic motivation toward reading in an extraordinary situation like the recent confinement? This research examines the relationship between intrinsic reading motivation (IRM) and reading habits in an adult population considering types of reading (for leisure, work/study, social networks, and news), gender, and distress generated by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Participants were 3,849 adults from Spain who were surveyed about their reading practices: before, during the first weeks, and after several weeks of confinement. Linear mixed effects models (LMMs) were used to analyze data.

Diagnostic imaging concordance study: Are traction radiographs necessary in a hip fracture?

Introduction: Hip fractures are a pathology that have emerged as a major subject over the years, due to increased prevalence and the multiple surgical treatments involved. The characterization and classification of the lesion is essential for proper surgical planning, with anteroposterior (AP), lateral and traction radiograph of the hip, paramount for decision-making.

Patients And Methods: This is a retrospective concordance study of 64 patients with hip fracture who consulted the hospital between January and July 2017.

A multicenter randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of telemonitoring in patients with advanced heart and lung chronic failure. Study protocol for the ATLAN_TIC project.

Background: Using technologies of information and communication (TICs) is emerging in medical assistance. TICs application for medical assistance is promising. Its applicability in advanced heart and/or respiratory failure is still controversial because studies have shown methodological weakness which could put in danger their conclusions.

[User satisfaction with teleophthalmology with nonmydriatic camera for diabetic retinopathy screening].

Objective: To determine satisfaction with the retinography service among patients with diabetes.

Methods: We performed a telephone survey of 64 users from July 2006 to March 2007. The mean age was 65.

Heterothallic mating observed between Mexican isolates of Glomerella lindemuthiana.

Although several reports have described the occurrence of the teleomorphic state of Glomerella lindemuthiana (anamorph, Colletotrichum lindemuthianum), there has been a lack of continuity in this research. To identify G. lindemuthiana isolates capable of developing the teleomorphic state, 19 Mexican isolates were analyzed.

[Prevalence of depression in patients over 65 years of age. Profile of the elderly at risk].

Objectives: To calculate the prevalence of emotional disorders in primary care, using a screening test--the Yesavage--and the association of emotional disorders with other variables, with the aim of identifying the profile of an elderly person most likely to be depressed at some juncture of his/her life.

Design: Cross-sectional, descriptive study.

Setting: Urban health care.