Identifying as a Survivor Versus a Victim After Sexual Violence Predicts Divergent Posttrauma Pathways.

The present study investigated social identification with "survivors" versus "victims" following sexual violence and the degree to which this predicted posttraumatic growth versus posttraumatic stress. Participants (= 290) were adult women who had experienced sexual violence. As predicted, cumulative sexual trauma was positively associated with symptoms of posttraumatic stress and posttraumatic growth.

What Does it Mean to be a Woman? How the Content of Gender Identity May Facilitate Women's Coping with Sexual Harassment.

Sexual harassment and other forms of gendered discrimination are social psychological phenomena, yet the psychological impact of sexual harassment has rarely been examined through a model which considers the role of diverse of gender identity (i.e. norms).

Risk factors for long-term failure of the retropubic tension-free vaginal tape procedure.

Aims: To investigate potential risk factors for long-term (10-year) subjective and objective failure of the retropubic tension-free vaginal tape procedure (TVT).

Methods: Secondary risk analysis was performed using data from a recently published multi-center study that were merged with additional preoperative and operative data individually stored in the Norwegian Female Incontinence Registry (NFIR). Subjective data from 483 women and objective data from 327 women were obtained 10 years after retropubic TVT surgery.

The use of an integrated electroanatomic mapping system and intracardiac echocardiography to reduce radiation exposure in children and young adults undergoing ablation of supraventricular tachycardia.

Aims: Non-fluoroscopic imaging (NFI) devices are increasingly used in ablations. The objective was to determine the utility of intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) in ablating paediatric supraventricular tachycardias (SVTs) and assess whether its integrated use with electroanatomic mapping (EAM) resulted in lower radiation exposure than use of EAM alone.

Methods And Results: Prospective, controlled, single-centre study of patients (pts) age ≥10 years, weight ≥35 kg, with SVT and normal cardiac anatomy.

Long-term follow-up of the retropubic tension-free vaginal tape procedure.

Introduction And Hypothesis: Retropubic tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) was introduced in 1996 as a new and innovative surgical approach in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI). In this study we evaluate the long-term objective and subjective outcomes in a non-selected patient population 10 years after the retropubic TVT procedure.

Methods: All women (603) operated on with retropubic TVT at four gynecological departments from September 1998 through December 2000 were identified, and those still alive (542) were invited to participate in this population-based prospective study.