Severe rectus diastasis with midline hernia associated in males: high recurrence in mid-term follow-up of minimally invasive surgical technique.

Propose: The present study aimed to assess clinical results, in terms of postoperative pain, functional recovery and recurrence rates of FESSA (Full Endoscopic Suprapubic Subcutaneous Access) technique compared to endoscopic anterior rectus sheaths plication and mesh, in male patients with midline ventral or incisional hernias and severe rectus diastasis (SRD) associated. Secondary aims were to identify intra- and postoperative complications associated with each technique.

Methods: Male patients with midline ventral or incisional hernia and severe rectus diastasis were included in a prospectively maintained databased and retrospectively analyzed from January 2017 to December 2020.

Relationship between postpartum changes in 13, 14-dihydro-15-keto-PGF2alpha concentrations in Holstein cows and their susceptibility to endometritis.

Uterine infections (i.e., endometritis) can have a major economic impact on dairy production.

Pain in ambulatory patients with lung or colon cancer. Prevalence, characteristics, and effect.

Background: Few studies have evaluated the epidemiology and effect of pain in ambulatory patients with cancer who are undergoing active therapy. This information is needed to develop strategies for supportive care in this population.

Methods: The prevalence and characteristics of pain were determined in a prospective survey of ambulatory patients with lung or colon cancer.

Effects of exogenous insulin and body condition on metabolic hormones and gonadotropin-induced follicular development in prepuberal gilts.

To determine influences of insulin and body condition on follicular growth, prepuberal gilts (n = 16) treated with pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin (PMSG) were used in a 2 X 2 factorial experiment with main effects of insulin (0 or .4 IU/kg every 12 h beginning at 1800 on the day before PMSG) and backfat depth (moderate, 25 +/- .8; high, 32 +/- .

Decreased follicular steroids and insulin-like growth factor-I and increased atresia in diabetic gilts during follicular growth stimulated with PMSG.

Four streptozotocin-diabetic gilts (maintained on exogenous insulin for 3 months) and 4 normoglycaemic gilts were treated with 600 i.u. PMSG.