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And finally, we suggest that stretchers may be a useful tool to study aging.

We present a different salvage procedure for penile prosthesis implantation in a De Castro neophallus.

A patient with congenital aphallia had been operated at the age of 11. Ten years later he had two non successful attempts of prosthesis implantation. Surgery consisted of adapting the implants into the aortic graft and folding it in the middle over the cylinders to reinforce its strength.

Patient had a successful postoperative course and has now 6 months of follow-up.

In a systematic review of penile prosthetic outcomes and complications in gender-affirming surgery, most of the prostheses were inflatable (83.6%) and single-cylinder (61.0%). At a mean follow-up of 3.0 years 36.2% of prosthesis complications, 60.0% of patients had their original implant present and 83.9% reported achieving penetration. We decided to use vascular grafts as a scaffold because of former non successful attempts.

The use of vascular prosthesis as a device to implant the penile prosthesis seems to be a safe and effective alternative in an attempt to offer erectile function to the neophallus in case of congenital aphallia.

The use of vascular prosthesis as a device to implant the penile prosthesis seems to be a safe and effective alternative in an attempt to offer erectile function to the neophallus in case of congenital aphallia.

Penile curvature (PC) is a frequent component associated with hypospadias. Medial corporal rotation by interrupted suturing without incising the corporal bodies is well described in patients with epispadias and we think that it is an alternative technique for the management of patients with ventral PC, with or without hypospadias.

We describe a PC correction technique which reduces the need for urethral plate transection in penoscrotal hypospadias.

The main steps of "vertical plication" technique are following The Buck's fascia at the maximum point of curvature was incised longitudinally at 12-o'clock position and then dissected from tunica albuginea from medial to lateral on each side. Minimal and precise dissection just enough to allow plication is essential to avoid injury to the neurovascular bundle. No incisions were made through the tunica albuginea. Corporal rotation was performed by approximating with polyester sutures which were placed 5mm apart at and around the point of maximum curvature. Throximal hypospadias associated with high grade PC. Narrowing is the only disadvantages of our technique, which can easily be resolved by de-epithelialized flap coverage harvested from foreskin. No parents subjectively reported nor we detected narrowing, recurrence or shortening during follow-up.

This technique allows the surgeon to proceed with single stage repair in patients with proximal hypospadias associated with high grade PC. Narrowing is the only disadvantages of our technique, which can easily be resolved by de-epithelialized flap coverage harvested from foreskin. No parents subjectively reported nor we detected narrowing, recurrence or shortening during follow-up.

Pazopanib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor given at the approved dose of 800mg orally once daily (OD), but often requiring individual dose adjustment due to toxicity. Limited data is available to guide prescription in older patients especially the unfit according to geriatric assessment.

VOTRAGE is a 3+3 dose-escalation, open-label phase I trial of continuous OD oral administration of pazopanib to evaluate safety, PK and PD data in unfit older patients with advanced solid tumors. The primary objective was to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD). PK data were compared with those obtained in younger adult patients in a population PK analysis.

Eighteen patients with a median age of 82.5years (range 75-91) were included in three dosing cohorts (400, 600, and 800mg daily). Three dose-limiting toxicities (DLT) were observed in five patients at 800mg and one DLT at 600mg in six evaluable patients. MTD was defined as level 2 dose (600mg). Individual oral clearance was not correlated with age. A relationship was observed between the occurrence of DLT and pazopanib plasma exposure. Decreased oral bioavailability of pazopanib when given with proton-pump inhibitors was confirmed in this group of patients.

We recommend performing geriatric assessment in patients older than 75 and starting pazopanib at 600mg per day in unfit older patients. Therapeutic drug monitoring appears very helpful in this population.

We recommend performing geriatric assessment in patients older than 75 and starting pazopanib at 600 mg per day in unfit older patients. Therapeutic drug monitoring appears very helpful in this population.

Mannitol is a mucoactive hyperosmotic agent used as add-on therapy in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), administered twice-daily (BID) via a small, portable, breath-actuated dry-powder inhaler. This study was conducted to provide confirmatory evidence of mannitol's efficacy and safety in adults.

This multicenter, double-blind, randomized, parallel-group, controlled clinical trial recruited adults (aged ≥18 years) with CF, and forced expiratory volume in 1second (FEV

) 40-90% predicted. Subjects received either mannitol 400mg or mannitol 50mg (control), BID via dry-powder inhaler for 26 weeks. Primary endpoint FEV

averaged over the 26-week treatment period.

Of 423 subjects randomized (209 or 214 receiving mannitol 400mg BID or control, respectively), 373 (88.2%) completed the study, with a similar proportion completing in the two groups. For FEV

averaged over 26 weeks, mannitol 400mg BID was statistically superior to control (adjusted mean difference 54mL [95% CI 8, 100mL]; p=0.020). This was suppa good overall safety and tolerability profile. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT02134353.

Home spirometry with regular symptom assessment is one strategy to track lung health to intervene early in episodes of pulmonary exacerbations (PE). In a multi-center randomized controlled trial home spirometry and symptom tracking demonstrated no significant differences regarding the primary clinical endpoint, FEV

, compared to usual care, but did identify differences in healthcare utilization. Akt phosphorylation We used data from the Early Intervention in Cystic Fibrosis Exacerbation (eICE) study to evaluate whether home monitoring of PE is a cost-minimizing intervention in the context of this randomized trial.

We reviewed healthcare resource utilization of all 267 eICE participants, including outpatient visits, antibiotics and hospitalizations. Prices were identified in the IBM/Watson MarketScan

Commercial Claims and Encounters Databases and averaged over the 2014-2017 period. Using total healthcare utilization costs, we generated summary statistics by intervention and protocol arm (total cost, mean cost, standard deviation).