Diethylstilbestrol 1 mg in the Treatment of Acute Urinary Retention due to Prostatic Obstruction in the Elderly: A Preliminary Study.

Patients who failed a catheter-free trial after acute urinary retention and one week of full dose alpha-blocker and 5-alpha-reductase inhibitor were offered Diethylstilbestrol 1 mg plus Aspirin 100 mg over 4 weeks. Prostate volume, age, serum creatinine, and initial retention drained urine volume were recorded. After excluding cardiovascular morbidity (n = 7), upper urinary tract dilation (n = 3), compromised renal function (n = 2), urinary tract infection (n = 2), neurological diagnosis (n = 2), or preferred immediate channel transurethral resection of prostate (n = 5), 48 of 69 consecutive patients ≥70 years were included.

PSA-nadir at 1 year as a sound contemporary prognostic factor for low-dose-rate iodine-125 seeds brachytherapy.

Objectives: To identify predictors of outcomes in patients with localized prostate cancer treated with iodine-125 brachytherapy in a longitudinal uncontrolled study.

Methods: Between 2000 and 2011, 560 histologically confirmed patients were treated with brachytherapy of whom 305 with ≥24-month follow-up and localized tumor were evaluated after exclusion of those locally advanced and under androgen ablation.

Results: Patients' mean age was 63.

Neurobehavior inventory: correlation with clinical aspects and quality of life in patients with epilepsy.

Fifty-five adult patients with epilepsy were evaluated, and the Neurobehavior Inventory (NBI) was administered. The relationship between the NBI data and clinical aspects and quality of life (QoL) was studied. The total NBI score was 58 ± 18.

Agreement between body mass index, calf circumference, arm circumference, habitual energy intake and the MNA in hospitalized elderly.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the agreement between body mass index, calf circumference, arm circumference, habitual energy intake and the mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and then assess the accuracy of these parameters in relation to the MNA.

Method: The nutritional status of 132 hospitalized elderly was assessed with the MNA, body mass index (BMI), calf circumference (CC) and arm circumference (AC). Their habitual energy intake (HEI) was also determined.