Using Technology to Support Expectant and Parenting Youth through Case Management: Lessons Learned in the Field.

Introduction: The Support. Empower. Learn.

Predictors of Group Leaders' Perceptions of Parents' Initial and Dynamic Engagement in a Family Preventive Intervention.

Attendance and participant engagement are two consistent predictors of the efficacy of preventive interventions. Although both are typically measured and analyzed as static factors, evidence indicates patterns of attendance and participant engagement change over the course of intervention. Understanding parent characteristics that predict engagement may inform strategies to maximize parents' involvement thereby increasing intervention uptake and improving effects.

Evaluation of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS).

LUTS often represent serious underlying diseases with morbid consequences. Awareness of these clinical entities is mandatory to arrive at differential diagnosis in fast and least expensive methods. Thus initiate the appropriate course of management.

Periprostatic infiltration with local anesthesia during transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy is safe, simple, and effective: a pilot study.

Objective: Transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided prostate needle biopsy is the standard procedure to diagnose prostate cancer. It can be associated with significant discomfort and pain. We evaluated if periprostatic infiltration with local anesthetic reduces this discomfort.

The value of cystoscopy, prostate biopsy and frozen-section urethral biopsy prior to orthotopic neobladder substitution.

Introduction: The traditional criteria for selecting suitability of male patients with bladder cancer for othtopic neobladder substitution includes: patient motivation, negative transurethral (TUR) prostate biopsy prior to cystectomy, and/or tumor-free biopsy of the urethral margin at the time of cystectomy. In this report we evaluate the value of these preoperative and intraoperative biopsies in the cystoscopically normal prostatic urethra.

Methods: During a 5-year period, cystectomies were performed on 54 men and 13 women with invasive bladder cancer.