Plain Language Summary of Publication: What is the effect of the medicine vibegron in the treatment of overactive bladder in patients with and without bladder leakage?

What is this summary about? People with overactive bladder need to use the bathroom many times a day to urinate (pee). This need may often be sudden and may cause some people with overactive bladder to have accidental bladder leakage. The EMPOWUR trial looked at how well a medicine called worked to help people with overactive bladder.

Cine clips increase the detection of thyroid pyramidal lobe in routine thyroid sonogram.

Background: Identification and resection of the thyroid pyramidal lobe is important for thyroid cancer surgery in order to prevent interval cancer in residual thyroid tissue.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine how often a thyroid pyramidal lobe is found in patients with and without previous thyroidectomy and to optimise the protocol for identifying thyroid pyramidal lobes during routine thyroid ultrasonography.

Material And Methods: In this prospective study, a total of 1579 patients who received routine thyroid ultrasound scans at a single centre were enrolled.

Reproducibility of semi-quantitative assessment of aortic valve calcification and valve motion on echocardiography: a small-scale study.

Background: Aortic stenosis (AS) is the most common degenerative valve disease in high income countries. While hemodynamic metrics are commonly used to assess severity of stenosis, they are impacted by loading conditions and stroke volume and are often discordant. Anatomic valve assessments such as aortic valve calcification (AVC) and valve motion (VM) during transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can offer clues to disease severity.