Prediction of long-term functional outcome following different rehabilitation pathways after stroke unit discharge.

Objective: To investigate whether referral for different types of rehabilitation on discharge from Swedish stroke units can predict functional outcomes at 1 and 5 years after a stroke.

Design: A longitudinal and registry-based study.

Subjects/patients: A total of 5,118 participants with index stroke in 2011 were followed-up at 1 and 5 years after the stroke.

A register-based study comparing planned rehabilitation following acute stroke in 2011 and 2017.

This cross-sectional, register-based study aimed to explore patterns of planned rehabilitation at discharge from stroke units in Sweden in 2011 and 2017 and identify explanatory variables for planned rehabilitation. Multivariable binary logistic regression was used to identify variables that could explain planned rehabilitation. There were 19,158 patients in 2011 and 16,508 patients in 2017 with stroke, included in the study.

[Significance of patient education and rehabilitation for an epilepsy patient].

In patient education, the therapy of an epilepsy patient is planned in collaboration with the patient. Treatment results will improve, when drug therapy and the effects of epilepsy on everyday life are individually assessed together with the patient. Epilepsy information and support provided on a primary information day will help to orient to an altered life situation.

Demonstration of a controllable three-dimensional Brownian motor in symmetric potentials.

We demonstrate a Brownian motor, based on cold atoms in optical lattices, where isotropic random fluctuations are rectified in order to induce controlled atomic motion in arbitrary directions. In contrast to earlier demonstrations of ratchet effects, our Brownian motor operates in potentials that are spatially and temporally symmetric, but where spatiotemporal symmetry is broken by a phase shift between the potentials and asymmetric transfer rates between them. The Brownian motor is demonstrated in three dimensions and the noise-induced drift is controllable in our system.

Who will benefit from pelvic floor muscle training for stress urinary incontinence?

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine which patient characteristics are predictive of outcome before pelvic floor muscle training for stress urinary incontinence.

Study Design: This was an observational study at a single-center outdoor patient clinic in Brussels, Belgium, that comprised 447 women, aged 26 to 80 years (mean, 52.7 years), who had urinary stress incontinence.

A 10-year follow-up after Kegel pelvic floor muscle exercises for genuine stress incontinence.

Objective: To determine the outcome 10 years after an individual course of pelvic floor muscle (PFM) exercises for genuine stress incontinence.

Patients And Methods: Postal questionnaires were sent to 52 women who had undergone PFM training 10 years earlier, and their medical files were reviewed. The main outcome measures were the patients' self-assessment of therapy outcome, the frequency of PFM exercises at home, and the demand for surgery after physiotherapy.

Pelvic floor exercises versus vaginal weight cones in genuine stress incontinence.

Objective: To compare pelvic floor exercises and vaginal weight cones in the treatment of genuine stress incontinence.

Study Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Methods: Sixty ambulatory and fit white women (mean age 56 years) with urinary stress incontinence, treated by a single physiotherapist as outpatients during twelve weeks.

Pelvic floor muscle exercises in genuine urinary stress incontinence.

Pelvic floor muscle exercises, in the treatment of genuine stress incontinence, have been used successfully since 1948. One may expect a significant improvement (warranting no further therapy), or cure rate of about 50%. These exercises have a long-lasting effect.

Pelvic floor muscle exercises: 5 years later.

Objectives: To determine the outcome of pelvic floor muscle exercises for genuine stress incontinence after 5 years.

Methods: Questionnaires were sent to 48 women, mean age 57 years, with troublesome stress incontinence treated as outpatients by a skilled female physiotherapist to elucidate a self-assessment of therapy outcome and to determine patients' compliance concerning fulfillment of home exercises and attitude toward physiotherapy. Patients' self-assessment responses indicated cured, much improved, some improvement, or unchanged/worse and incidence of anti-incontinence surgery after physiotherapy.

Pelvic physiotherapy in genuine stress incontinence.

In a prospective cohort study, the effect of pelvic physiotherapy on genuine stress incontinence, factors that influence therapy outcome, and patients' attitudes toward physiotherapy were studied. The study group consisted of 52 ambulatory and mentally fit Caucasian women (mean age, 53 years), suffering from genuine stress incontinence and who had no contraindications for surgery. They had physiotherapy twice weekly for ten weeks.

Properties of dissociatively extracted fetal tooth matrix proteins. I. Principal molecular species in developing bovine enamel.

A sequential dissociative extraction scheme is described in which tooth matrix proteins are extracted first in 4 M guanidine HCl, pH 7.4, and then in 4 M guanidine HCl, 0.5 M EDTA, pH 7.

Calcium fluoride containing granules produced in vitro in rat bones.

Femurs and tibias of normal rats were fixed in 4% unbuffered solutions of glutaraldehyde or formaldehyde containing 1% NaF. Following washing, radiographically controlled demineralization was performed in 3.25% HNO3.

Matrix-mineral relationships--a morphologist's viewpoint.

The literature on the ultrastructural morphology of the enamel matrix and its relationship to the crystals is reviewed. Two morphological entities of the matrix are discussed. One is the so-called stippled material which may be the initial cell product; the other, variously described as fibrillar, lamellar, tubular or helical, is thought by many to play a crucial role in nucleation and orientation of the crystals.

Dose and age dependent variations in effect of tetracycline on enamel formation in rat.

Incidence of rats with gross enamel lesions in response to tetracycline hydrochloride (TC) was studied in relationship to age, tooth type, and concentration of antibiotic in the injection fluid. Incidence was defined as percentage of animals with defects in at least one incisor or one molar. Serum levels were measured at various intervals in 4- and 75-day-old rats, which received a single i.