The Role of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in the Diagnosis of Penile Fracture in Real-Life Emergency Settings: Comparative Analysis with Intraoperative Findings.

Purpose: We evaluated the role of magnetic resonance imaging of the penis in the diagnosis of penile fracture and/or concomitant urethral lesions in real-life emergency settings compared with intraoperative findings.

Materials And Methods: A total of 43 patients presented with suspicion of penile fracture between January 2006 and December 2016. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed in 28 patients prior to surgical treatment in the emergency setting.

Repair of an Autologous Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm Ten Years after Renal Artery Reconstruction during Live Donor Renal Transplantation.

Saphenous vein graft (SVG) aneurysms (SVGA) after renal transplantation represents a rare vascular complication with subsequent challenging multidisciplinary treatment. We present a case of a 30-year-old female who received a live donor kidney transplantation for end-stage renal disease that was caused due to the hemolytic uremic syndrome. Postoperatively, an insufficient graft perfusion due to an arterial kinking was noted and repaired using an autologous SVG interposition.

Client characteristics and the cost of home care in the prospective payment system.

There has been much speculation in the literature about the effect of the prospective payment system (PPS) on the home care industry but few reports of systematic investigation. Clearly, comprehension of client characteristics is essential for categorizing home care clients into the correct Home Health Resource Groups, for allocating resources appropriately, and for implementing necessary organizational changes to accommodate clients who require variations in the amount of resources predicted by the PPS. The purposes of this study were to compare the characteristics of home health clients that resulted in a financial gain or a financial loss for one agency under the PPS with those of the interim payment system.

Partnership in conversation: a study of word search strategies.

Conversation analysis was used to investigate a conversational partner's strategies when assisting with the word searches of an aphasic person. The purpose was to identify and detail how such strategies were accomplished and to examine the implications of these strategies from a social and participatory perspective. Review of a large, authentic database resulted in identification of 38 videotaped conversation sequences characterized by the initiation of a word search by an aphasic speaker and the joining of this search by the conversation partner.

Application of the correct information unit analysis to the naturally occurring conversation of a person with aphasia.

The Correct Information Unit (CIU) analysis for measuring the communicative informativeness and efficiency of connected speech (Nicholas & Brookshire, 1993) was applied to the naturally occurring conversation of a person with moderate aphasia. Results indicated that, in this instance, reliable CIU measures could not be obtained. Intrarater reliability for CIU and %CIU was low, reaching only 72%, and interrater reliability was never greater than 63%.