Sexual function after surgically corrected menstrual outflow obstruction due to congenital anomalies.

Objectives: To enhance evidence-based knowledge about sexual function and the prevalence of sexual dysfunction after surgical therapy for congenital anomalies with menstrual outflow obstruction.

Materials And Methods: In this long-term case-control study, all patients underwent surgical correction of an obstructive Müllerian anomaly between 1980 and 2013. At the start of the case-control study, patients were at least 18 years old and were two years post their initial operation.

Inflammatory Cytokine Levels in Patients with Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Key Points: Higher levels of IL-6, IL-8, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, TNF-, and IFN- in patients with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease highlight inflammation's role in disease progression. Elevated inflammatory markers in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease could serve as biomarkers for progression and targets for therapy.

Background: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is a genetic ciliopathy that causes adult-onset progressive renal failure.

Fueling the success of transplantation through nutrition: recent insights into nutritional interventions, their interplay with gut microbiota and cellular mechanisms.

Purpose Of Review: The role of nutrition in organ health including solid organ transplantation is broadly accepted, but robust data on nutritional regimens remains scarce calling for further investigation of specific dietary approaches at the different stages of organ transplantation. This review gives an update on the latest insights into nutritional interventions highlighting the potential of specific dietary regimens prior to transplantation aiming for organ protection and the interplay between dietary intake and gut microbiota.

Recent Findings: Nutrition holds the potential to optimize patients' health prior to and after surgery, it may enhance patients' ability to cope with the procedure-associated stress and it may accelerate their recovery from surgery.

Relevant parameters for laser surgery of soft tissue.

In recent years, the laser has become an important tool in hospitals. Laser surgery in particular has many advantages. However, there is still a lack of the understanding of the influence of the relevant parameters for laser surgery.

DKK3 as a potential novel biomarker in patients with autosomal polycystic kidney disease.

Backgound: Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited kidney disease, and leads to a steady loss of kidney function in adulthood. The variable course of the disease makes it necessary to identify the patients with rapid disease progression who will benefit the most from targeted therapies and interventions. Currently, magnetic resonance imaging-based volumetry of the kidney is the most commonly used tool for this purpose.