Stem Cell Therapy for Erectile Dysfunction: A Step towards a Future Treatment.

: The improvement of absent or partial response in the medical treatment of erectile dysfunction (ED) has led to the development of minimally invasive new treatment modalities in the field of regenerative medicine. : A literature review on stem cell therapy for the treatment of ED was performed. We searched for the terms "erectile dysfunction" and "stem cell therapy" in PubMed and Clinicaltrials.

Polycystosis of the renal sinus or polycystic kidney disease Controversies, challenges and history of a shared discovery.

Objective: To recall the history of the discovery of non-nephron cystic disease, detected simultaneously in 2 hospitals in Madrid, and the vicissitudes that the authors endured during the process of recognising this disease, while being ignored by the international scientific literature.

Material And Method: We analysed the authors' first publications and presentations, their correspondence relaying the difficulties in reporting the confusion with adult polycystic kidney disease (APKD) and the subsequent nosological identification of the process. We consulted with individuals who worked with the 2 authors to increase the accuracy and objectivity of the history report.

Do not do in COPD: consensus statement on overuse.

Background: To identify practices that do not add value, cause harm, or subject patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) to a level of risk that outweighs possible benefits (overuse).

Methods: A qualitative approach was applied. First, a multidisciplinary group of healthcare professionals used the Metaplan technique to draft and rank a list of overused procedures as well as self-care practices in patients with stable and exacerbated COPD.

Impact of statin guidelines on statin utilization and costs in an employer-based primary care clinic.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe statin utilization and costs in an employer-based patient cohort by comparing actual practice and assumed adoption of the 2013 American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) or 2016 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) statin recommendations versus the guidelines described in 2001 (and supplemented in 2004) in the Third Report of the National Cholesterol Education Program's Expert Panel on Detection, Evaluation and Treatment of High Blood Cholesterol in Adults (ATPIII).

Study Design: Descriptive cohort analysis included patients treated in an employer-based primary care clinic between January 2012 and April 2014.

Methods: ATPIII, ACC/AHA, and USPSTF recommendations were retrospectively applied at the patient level based on lipid levels and statin prescribing data collected from a health risk assessment and electronic health record.

[[Greenlight-XPS laser vaporization, the new standard of treatment in men with myasthenia gravis and benign prostatic obstruction]?].

Unlabelled: Patients with Benign Prostatic Obstruction (BPO) and Myasthenia Gravis (MG) treated with Transurethral Resection of the prostate (TURP) show a high incidence of urinary incontinence due to unnoticed damage to muscle fibres of the external sphincter. Photoselective laser vaporization could be an alternative treatment based on the hypothesis that using Laser as energy source in the treatment of BPH prevents sphincter damage because the energy is not transmitted outside the fiber tip.

Methods: We report the case of a man diagnosed of MG and symptomatic BPO treated satisfactorily with photoselective laser vaporization (GreenLight-XPS).

First experience with the ATOMS(®) implant, a new treatment option for male urinary incontinence.

Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as any complaint of involuntary urine leakage. A description is provided of our experience with the ATOMS(®) (Adjustable Transobturator Male System. Agency for Medical Innovations.

The candidate for renal transplantation work up: medical, urological and oncological evaluation.

Unlabelled: Renal transplantation prolongs life, reduces morbidity, improves quality of life, and enables social rehabilitation of patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). Kidney transplantation is a surgical procedure with inherent risks due to anesthesia and the surgical procedure itself. In ESRD patients medical background and comorbidities are crucial at the time of considering a renal transplant candidate because they can determine the procedure success

Objectives: To update and review, according to recent literature, the evaluation of renal transplant candidates.

Prostatic abscess: diagnosis and treatment of an infrequent urological entity.

Objective: To report two cases of prostatic abscess of difficult management and review the literature on diagnosis and management of this entity. METHODS /RESULTS: We describe two patients with prostatic abscess. The first one, a 73-year-old diabetic male, was treated using a more passive approach with percutaneous transrectal drainage; after a slow response, the patient passed away due to sepsis.

[Gender bias in the language of the health questionnaire of the Spanish National Health Survey 2003].

To identify possible gender bias in the language of the adults' and children's questionnaires of the Spanish National Health Survey, 2003, its style and language was analyzed for inaccurate generalizations, inequalities due to the use of terms that reflect social stereotypes and hide unequal social roles, and grammatical gender disagreement. Both questionnaires show language bias, mainly lexical, as they use masculine singular nouns to refer to all individuals (for example, carer, employer, worker, doctor, interviewer, interviewee). Gender stereotypes are reinforced by the use of the term "carer", referring to women, and by examples of jobs traditionally done by men.

Acute effects of tianeptine on circulating neurotransmitters and cardiovascular parameters.

Tianeptine is a serotonin-uptake enhancer drug whose antidepressant effectiveness is based on its ability to reduce rather than increase serotonin availability at the synaptic cleft. This paradoxical neuropharmacological mechanism has raised doubt among neuropharmacologists and psychiatrists as to the role of tianeptine as a trusty-reliable antidepressant drug. This controversial issue led us to investigate the acute effects of a single, oral dose (12.

Neurochemical, neuroautonomic and neuropharmacological acute effects of sibutramine in healthy subjects.

Sibutramine is a neuropharmacological drug that exerts central (CNS) and peripheral effects including noradrenaline (NA), and serotonin (5-HT) uptake inhibition. In addition, the drug is able to induce release from DA axons. We measured levels of circulating neurotransmitters in 20 healthy subjects during supine-resting (fasting) state before and after 15 mg of oral sibutramine.