Assessing renal function after partial nephrectomy using renal nuclear scintigraphy and estimated glomerular filtration rate.

Objective: To create a model intended to more accurately characterize renal function alteration after partial nephrectomy using a combination of renal scintigraphy and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR).

Methods: Thirty-two partial nephrectomy patients from a single center with preoperative and postoperative renal scans were reviewed. Renal scan data were used to calculate proportional eGFR in the involved kidney as a product of the percentage function of the operated kidney and total eGFR.

Risk of cancer-specific mortality following recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy.

Purpose: To describe the natural history and identify predictors of cancer-specific survival in patients who experience disease recurrence after radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) for upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC).

Methods: Of 2,494 UTUC patients treated with RNU without neoadjuvant chemotherapy, 597 patients experienced disease recurrence. A total of 148 patients (25 %) received adjuvant chemotherapy before disease recurrence.

Pilot randomized controlled trial of individual meaning-centered psychotherapy for patients with advanced cancer.

Purpose: Spiritual well-being and sense of meaning are important concerns for clinicians who care for patients with cancer. We developed Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (IMCP) to address the need for brief interventions targeting spiritual well-being and meaning for patients with advanced cancer.

Patients And Methods: Patients with stage III or IV cancer (N = 120) were randomly assigned to seven sessions of either IMCP or therapeutic massage (TM).

Lymph node-positive bladder cancer treated with radical cystectomy and lymphadenectomy: effect of the level of node positivity.

Background: The extent of lymphadenectomy needed to optimize oncologic outcomes after radical cystectomy (RC) for patients with regionally advanced bladder cancer (BCa) is unclear.

Objective: Evaluate the effect of the location of lymph node metastasis on recurrence-free survival (RFS) and cancer-specific survival (CSS) for patients undergoing RC with a mapping pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND).

Design, Setting, And Participants: A study of 591 patients undergoing RC with mapping PLND was completed between 2000 and 2010.

Safety rounds in public environments: experience of a new tool for prevention of accidental injuries.

Accident prevention concerns everyone in society. A large number of organisations have the responsibility and the means to fight the increasing injury rate. Many preventive measures require changes and improvements to the physical environment.

Marital break-up among couples raising families by artificial insemination by donor.

The separation rate for Norwegian women who had given birth to children after artificial insemination by donor (AID, n = 227) was compared with the separation rate among all Norwegian women that met certain demographic criteria for equality (controls, n = 6,689). The criteria included identical year of maternal birth, similar age at marriage, and equally long period between marriage and birth of the first child. Mean duration of marriage at first delivery was 7.

Variations in middle cerebral artery blood flow investigated with noninvasive transcranial blood velocity measurements.

Observations on blood velocity in the middle cerebral artery using transcranial Doppler ultrasound and on the ipsilateral internal carotid artery flow volume were obtained during periods of transient, rapid blood flow variations in 7 patients. Five patients were investigated after carotid endarterectomy. A further 2 patients having staged carotid endarterectomy and open heart surgery were investigated during nonpulsatile cardiopulmonary bypass.