Patient-Directed Vasectomy Information: How Readable Is It?

Purpose: To assess the quality and readability of online health information on vasectomy using validated readability and quality assessment tools.

Materials And Methods: The top 50 search results for "vasectomy" on Google, Bing, and Yahoo were selected. Duplicate links, advertisements, blog posts, paid webpages, and information intended for healthcare providers were excluded.

Guideline-Nonconformant Investigational Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction: What are Patients Learning?

Objective: To evaluate the validity of YouTube content on shockwave, platelet-rich plasma, and stem cell therapies for erectile dysfunction (ED). The consumerization of men's health is particularly notable among regenerative ED treatments, and the popularity of these treatments has been amplified by social media sites such as YouTube.

Methods: We searched YouTube utilizing the following terms: "shockwave therapy-," "platelet-rich plasma- and "stem cell therapy-" "-for erectile dysfunction.

Automated extraction of incidental adrenal nodules from electronic health records.

Background: Many adrenal incidentalomas do not undergo appropriate biochemical testing and complete imaging characterization to assess for hormone hypersecretion and malignancy. With the growing availability of clinical narratives in the electronic medical record, automated surveillance using advanced data analytic techniques may represent a promising method to improve management.

Methods: A data provisioning process using a series of structured query language scripts was used to abstract all chest and abdominal computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging reports from an academic health care system in 2018.

Intralesional collagenase for acute phase Peyronie's disease: a single-center, retrospective cohort study.

Background: Peyronie's disease (PD) can be subdivided into acute and chronic phases. Intralesional collagenase has been shown to improve curvature in the chronic phase. Initial clinical trials excluded patients in the acute phase from treatment.

Comparison of Preoperative Alpha-blockade for Resection of Paraganglioma and Pheochromocytoma.

Objective: Phenoxybenzamine (nonselective, noncompetitive alpha-blocker) is the preferred drug for preoperative treatment of pheochromocytoma, but doxazosin (selective, competitive alpha-blocker) may be equally effective. We compared the efficacy of doxazosin vs phenoxybenzamine.

Methods: We conducted a prospective study of patients undergoing pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma resection by randomizing pretreatment with phenoxybenzamine or doxazosin at a single tertiary referral center.

Acute Lower Back Pain after Intralesional Injection of Collagenase for Peyronie's Disease.

Purpose: The safety label for collagenase was updated to include postinjection acute lower back pain as an adverse event observed with intralesional therapy for Peyronie's disease. Incidence and causality are unknown. We assessed frequencies and temporal associations for this adverse event in a large cohort.

Trends in Adjuvant External Beam Radiation Therapy for Nonanaplastic Thyroid Cancer in California, 2003-2017.

Background: External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is rarely used to treat patients with differentiated or medullary thyroid cancer. Although EBRT is generally administered to patients with high-risk or unresectable diseases, neither its indications for the use nor the associated outcomes are well-defined. We used a statewide cohort to assess the trends in EBRT use and postradiation outcomes in California.