Implementation of a multimodal home-based rehabilitation intervention after discharge from inpatient geriatric rehabilitation (GeRas): an early qualitative process evaluation.

Background: Geriatric rehabilitation aims at increasing physical and social activity and maintaining the functional reserve of older people. However, the continuity of geriatric rehabilitation in the outpatient setting is limited due to a lack of structured aftercare programs. In order to overcome this, a three-month multimodal home-based intervention program (GeRas) was implemented.

Consequences of contact restrictions for long-term care residents during the first months of COVID-19 pandemic: a scoping review.

During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, stringent measures were implemented in most countries to limit social contact between residents of long-term care facilities (LTCF) and visitors. The objective of this scoping review was to identify and map evidence of direct and indirect consequences of contact restrictions, guided by three conceptual perspectives: (1) stress and learned helplessness (i.e.

An experimental genetically attenuated live vaccine to prevent transmission of Toxoplasma gondii by cats.

Almost any warm-blooded creature can be an intermediate host for Toxoplasma gondii. However, sexual reproduction of T. gondii occurs only in felids, wherein fertilisation of haploid macrogametes by haploid microgametes, results in diploid zygotes, around which a protective wall develops, forming unsporulated oocysts.

Two innovative pharmaceutical forms of leuprorelin: results from 818 patients with advanced prostate cancer.

Objectives: This study set out to examine the efficacy and tolerability of two innovative implant forms of leuprorelin acetate in men with advanced hormone-dependent prostate cancer in everyday clinical practice.

Methods: Data were collected from 818 patients (from 273 centers across Germany) who were pretreated with slow-release luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist formulations and who were about to be switched to the leuprorelin implants. Patients received three injections of 1- or 3-month leuprorelin implant and physicians were asked to complete a case report form specific to each of the three clinic visits.

Outcome in patients with seminal vesicle invasion after radical cystectomy.

Purpose: We evaluated the impact of seminal vesicle invasion by transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder in a large cystectomy series.

Materials And Methods: Between January 1985 and February 2002, 1,125 cystectomies were performed at our 2 institutions. In 68 male patients there was pathologically proved tumor extension to the perivesical fat, prostatic stroma and/or seminal vesicles, including group 1: 38 to the prostatic stroma alone, group 2-12 to the seminal vesicles alone, and group 3-18 to the seminal vesicles and prostatic stroma.

T2a transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder: long-term experience with intravesical immunoprophylaxis with bacillus Calmette-Guerin.

Purpose: In this prospective study we evaluate the effect of combined transurethral resection of early muscle invasive bladder cancer and immunotherapy with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) in patients unfit for radical cystectomy or refusing more aggressive therapies.

Materials And Methods: A total of 22 patients with a mean age 73.6 years were included in the study.