Neurogenic bladder – concepts and treatment recommendations
International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2022 Introduction: Bladder and urinary sphincter malfunctioning that results from some change in the central and/or peripheral nervous system is defined as neurogenic bladder.
José Carlos Truzzi +4 more
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Artificial urinary sphincter: current status and future directions
Asian Journal of Andrology, 2020 Urge urinary incontinence (UUI) is one of the most troublesome complications of surgery of the prostate whether for malignancy or benign conditions. For many decades, there have been attempts to reduce the morbidity of this outcome with variable results.
Culley C Carson
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An attention model to analyse the risk of agitation and urinary tract infections in people with dementia [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Behavioural symptoms and urinary tract infections (UTI) are among the most common problems faced by people with dementia. One of the key challenges in the management of these conditions is early detection and timely intervention in order to reduce distress and avoid unplanned hospital admissions.
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Salvage surgical procedure for artificial sphincter extrusion
International Brazilian Journal of UrologyCase Hypothesis: Surgical removal is the standard treatment for artificial sphincter extrusion. However in some specific situations is possible to maintain the prosthesis with good results.
Flavio Trigo Rocha +1 more
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Urine Dataset having eight particles classes [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Urine sediment examination (USE) is one of the main tests used in the evaluation of diseases such as kidney, urinary, metabolic, and diabetes and to determine the density and number of various cells in the urine. USE's manual microscopy is a labor-intensive and time-consuming, imprecise, subjective process.
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Targeting Moderate and Severe Male Stress Urinary Incontinence With Adjustable Male Slings and the Perineal Artificial Urinary Sphincter: Focus on Perioperative Complications and Device Explantations [PDF]
International Neurourology Journal, 2017 Purpose To analyze perioperative complications and postoperative explantation rates for selected readjustable male sling systems and the perineal single-cuff artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) in a large, contemporary, multi-institutional patient cohort.
Alexander Kretschmer +20 more
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Drugs Resistance Analysis from Scarce Health Records via Multi-task Graph Representation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 Clinicians prescribe antibiotics by looking at the patient's health record with an experienced eye. However, the therapy might be rendered futile if the patient has drug resistance. Determining drug resistance requires time-consuming laboratory-level testing while applying clinicians' heuristics in an automated way is difficult due to the categorical ...
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Asian Journal of Andrology, 2020 The use of artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence has become more prevalent, especially in the “prostate-specific antigen (PSA)-era”, when more patients are treated for localized prostate cancer.
Nathaniel H Heah, Ronny B W Tan
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Detection of the most influential variables for preventing postpartum urinary incontinence using machine learning techniques [PDF]
Digital Health, Volume 8, 2022, 20552076221111289Background: Postpartum urinary incontinence (PUI) is a common issue among postnatal women. Previous studies identified potential related variables, but lacked analysis on certain intrinsic and extrinsic patient variables during pregnancy. Objective: The study aims to evaluate the most influential variables in PUI using machine learning, focusing on ...
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Decoding Microbial Enigmas: Unleashing the Power of Artificial Intelligence in Analyzing Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogens and their Impact on Human Health [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 In this research, medical information from 1200 patients across various hospitals in Iraq was collected over a period of 3 years, from February 3, 2018, to March 5, 2021. The study encompassed several infections, including urinary tract infections, wound infections, tonsillitis, prostatitis, endometritis, endometrial lining infections, burns infections,
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