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In women who are unable to contract their pelvic floor muscles voluntarily, what is the effect of an intravaginal electrical stimulation regimen on their ability to contract the pelvic floor muscles and on self-reported urinary incontinence?

Randomised controlled trial with concealed allocation, blinded assessors and intention-to-treat analysis.

Sixty-four women with pelvic floor muscle function assessed by bi-digital palpation to be grade 0 or 1 on the Modified Oxford Scale.

For 8 weeks, participants randomised to the experimental group received weekly 20-minute sessions of intravaginal electrical stimulation with instructions to attempt pelvic floor muscle contractions during the bursts of electrical stimulation in the final 10 minutes of each session. The control group received no intervention.

The primary outcome was ability to voluntarily contract the pelvic floor muscles, evaluated through vaginal palpation using the Modified Oxford Scale. Secondary outcomes were prevalence and severity of uriossible to confirm whether the effects are trivial or worthwhile.

NCT03319095.

NCT03319095.

Celiac disease (CD) is still underestimated. To close this diagnostic gap, the Health Sicilian Authorities have constituted the "Sicilian Network for CD".

A) To verify the quality of the current diagnostic approach using the data sheet of the Network. B) To evaluate the clinical, serologic and histologic data of new diagnoses in the context of the Network METHODS We retrospectively evaluated the data collection forms of 369 patients with CD from three Centers within the Sicilian Network. All the Centers used a standard data collection form.

A non-classical CD presentation was more frequent than the classical one, anemia being the most frequent symptom (50%). An IBS-like presentation was found in one third of the cases. A diagnostic delay of about 9 years following the onset of symptoms was observed. Almost half of the patients had not undergone multiple duodenal biopsies; unrecommended CD serology assays were prescribed in 59.9% of the cases.

The regional data sheets allowed an assessment of the diagnostic delay. We recorded a frequent use of unrecommended tests prescribed before referring patients to the regional Centers. Updating the education of physicians regarding CD is necessary to avoid unwarranted health expenditure.

The regional data sheets allowed an assessment of the diagnostic delay. We recorded a frequent use of unrecommended tests prescribed before referring patients to the regional Centers. Updating the education of physicians regarding CD is necessary to avoid unwarranted health expenditure.

Virtual surgical planning (VSP) is increasingly used in maxillomandibular osseous free flap reconstruction. Non-commercial ('in-house') VSP may offer the same level of accuracy and other benefits, without the inflated costs and time delays inherent in using commercial providers. Comparisons between commercial and in-house methods are lacking. This study aims to determine the accuracy of VSP, compare in-house and commercially planned cases, and explore predictors of the reconstruction error.

Seventy-six patients who had a virtually planned maxillomandibular reconstruction between January 2012 and July 2020 were retrospectively identified. The preoperative digital plan was compared to the postoperative CT scan in terms of length of bone segments, angle between adjacent segments and intercondylar, and intergonial angle distances (mandibular reconstructions only).

Forty-four patients fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The mean intergonial and intercondylar distances error was 1.7±1.01mm, mean segment length

The ideal nipple areolar complex (NAC) position of the male chest following gynaecomastia surgery is well documented; however, with increased development of the chest muscles, the NAC placement can change, leading to the medial displacement of the nipple giving a poor aesthetic outcome. Therefore, we believe that these measurements need to be applied to the patients' build and take into consideration the future fitness goals of the patients.

We have analysed the photographs of three groups of men super athletes, athletes and individuals with severe gynaecomastia. We have assessed the proportions of the chest in relation to the NAC, degree of ptosis and TAP index.

There was a wide variation between the athlete and the super athlete group, with minor variations within each group. The range of measurement in the severe gynaecomastia group was significantly larger than those in the other groups. We feel that based on this research study, surgeons should however be somewhat circumspect in their choice of nipple position as there is a wide variation in what can be considered as normal, and positioning of the NAC too early in the recovery process may lead to an abnormal aesthetic appearance following muscle development.

Despite the multitude of techniques available in the literature to determine the position of nipple, there is a lack of understanding on how the NAC position changes with muscle development. Adopting a dogmatic approach may result in a very aesthetically displeasing outcome, which can be very difficult to correct in men.

Despite the multitude of techniques available in the literature to determine the position of nipple, there is a lack of understanding on how the NAC position changes with muscle development. Adopting a dogmatic approach may result in a very aesthetically displeasing outcome, which can be very difficult to correct in men.The study investigated the osteogenic capacity of a prefabricated periosteal flap created using only skeletonized pedicle transfer without fascia or muscle for vascular induction in rabbit calvarium. A critical-sized bone defect was made in the parietal bone centered on the sagittal suture, and the demineralized bone matrix was implanted. The periosteofascia over the defect was used as a form of prefabricated periosteofascial flap (PPF group, N=10), conventional periosteofascial flap (CPF group, N=10), and nonvascularized free periosteofascial graft (FPG group, N=6). The prefabricated flap was designed via vascular induction by transferring the central artery and vein of the right auricle onto the periosteofascia for 4 weeks prior to flap elevation. A quantitative comparison of volume restoration and radiodensity in the bone defect and a histological study were performed after 6 weeks of covering the bone defect with periosteofascia. The volume restoration of the bone defect covered with the PPF (43.4%) was not different from that of the CPF (46.2%), but significantly increased compared with that of the FPG (24.6%). The radiodensity of the bone defect covered with the PPF (-186.3 HU) was not different from that of the CPF (-153.6 HU), but significantly increased compared with that of the FPG (-329.8 HU). The results were based on adequate vascular development of the periosteum and were closely related to the osteogenic changes in the implanted demineralized bone matrix (DBM). AMPK inhibitor In conclusion, even in the PPF created by transferring only skeletonized vascular pedicles, the osteogenic capacity of the periosteofascial flap is well maintained.

This pilot study aimed to investigate the maximum extension of foveal fixation in the horizontal direction among young adults in both emmetropes and myopes.

35 participants (28 emmetropes and 7 myopes) were included. Participants with restricted extra-ocular mobility, end gaze nystagmus, and/or any other ocular pathology were excluded. Visual acuity (VA) was used as a surrogate measure of foveal fixation. VA was determined using a staircase procedure with 8 reversals. The average of the last 5 reversals was taken as the thresholds. VA acuity was measured at different gaze eccentricities along nasal and temporal visual field meridian. The eccentricity at which VA drops significantly was taken as the maximum extent of foveal fixation. A bilinear fit regression model was used to investigate the drop in the VA in both nasal and the temporal direction.

Emmetropes can foveate up to 35 ±2° in nasal and 40 ±3° in temporal direction and myopes can foveate up to 38° in both nasal and temporal directions. Paired student t-test showed a significant difference in foveal fixation between nasal and temporal direction for emmetropes (P<0.001) but not in myopes (P=0.168). An unpaired student t-test showed a significant difference in foveal fixation for nasal direction between myopes and emmetropes (P=0.01). However, no statistically significant difference was found in foveal fixation for temporal direction between myopes and emmetropes (P=0.792).

The eye rotation does not necessarily match with the extent of foveal fixation at extreme eye rotation. Eyes can fixate only up to 35° nasally and 40° temporally maintaing their maximum visual acuity.

The eye rotation does not necessarily match with the extent of foveal fixation at extreme eye rotation. Eyes can fixate only up to 35° nasally and 40° temporally maintaing their maximum visual acuity.

This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to synthesize the latest evidence on the effect of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-IV) inhibitor in patients with COVID-19.

We performed a systematic literature search from the PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Clinicaltrials.gov up until 15 July 2021. Studies that met the following criteria were included prospective or retrospective observational studies or case series or randomized controlled trials (RCTs) reporting DPP-IV inhibitor use in patients with COVID-19 and mortality. The intervention group was patients receiving DPP-IV inhibitor. The control group was patients that did not receive DPP-IV inhibitor. The outcome was mortality reported as odds ratio (OR).

There were 11 studies consisting of 5950 patients in this meta-analysis. DPP-IV inhibitor use was associated with reduced mortality (OR 0.75 [0.56, 0.99], p = 0.043, I

42.9, p = 0.064) compared to those that did not receive DPP-IV inhibitor. Sensitivity analysis using the fixed-effect model (OR 0.75 [0.63, 0.88], p < 0.001, I

42.9, p = 0.064) also showed mortality benefit. The association between DPP-IV inhibitor and mortality was not significantly affected by age (p = 0.540), sex (p = 0.054), hypertension (p = 0.320), location (continent; p = 0.532), and retrospective/prospective nature of the study (p = 0.840). However, the association was affected by metformin (OR 1.03 [95% CI 1.01, 1.06], p = 0.010) and ACEI/ARB use (OR 1.06 [95% CI 1.02, 1.10], p = 0.004).

This meta-analysis showed that DPP-IV inhibitor was associated with reduced mortality in patients with COVID-19.

This meta-analysis showed that DPP-IV inhibitor was associated with reduced mortality in patients with COVID-19.

Current rating scales for Tourette syndrome (TS) are limited by recollection bias or brief assessment periods. This proof-of-concept study aimed to develop a sensor-based paradigm to detect and classify tics.

We recorded both electromyogram and acceleration data from seventeen TS patients, either when voluntarily moving or experiencing tics and during the modified Rush Video Tic Rating Scale (mRVTRS). Spectral properties of voluntary and tic movements from the sensor that captured the dominant tic were calculated and used as features in a support vector machine (SVM) to detect and classify movements retrospectively.

Across patients, the SVM had an accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 96.69±4.84%, 98.24±4.79%, and 96.03±6.04%, respectively, when classifying movements in the test dataset. Furthermore, each patient's SVM was validated using data collected during the mRVTRS. Compared to the expert consensus, the tic detection accuracy was 85.63±15.28% during the mRVTRS, while overall movement classification accuracy was 94.