Publications by authors named "Tommy G W Speel"
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- The study explores the validity of using healthcare insurance claims data for urinary incontinence (UI) pad usage as a measure for assessing UI rates after radical prostatectomy (RP).
- It involves 1624 RP patients in the Netherlands, with data collected on pad use and patient-reported outcomes (PROMs) to determine the correlation between these two measures.
- Findings suggest claims data has moderate accuracy in reflecting UI rates compared to PROMs, indicating it could serve as a conservative indicator of quality in this context.
A 16-year-old male patient with no known medical history presented at the Emergency Department (ED) with a 2-day history of pain and swelling in his right hemiscrotum. He was diagnosed with non-bacterial epididymitis and discharged home with medical advice. Six days after being diagnosed, the pain and swelling worsened and he was seen by a general practitioner who concluded that the symptoms were attributable to the previously diagnosed epididymitis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Impaired perfusion of the corpora cavernosa is considered an important causal factor of erectile dysfunction (ED) in the aging male with atherosclerosis. Aim. On the basis of this notion, we hypothesized that inhibition of angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) may have a structural beneficial effect on cavernosal perfusion and subsequently on erectile function in men with impaired cavernosal perfusion.
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