Twelve-Year Follow-Up of a Randomised Controlled Trial Comparing the Effectiveness of Pelvic Floor Muscle Training Versus Mid-Urethral Sling Surgery for Female Moderate to Severe Urinary Incontinence. [PDF]
BJOGABSTRACT Objective To compare the 12‐year effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training versus midurethral sling surgery for moderate to severe female stress urinary incontinence. Design Observational follow‐up study of a randomised controlled trial. Setting Conducted at the Division of Gynaecology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, The Netherlands ...
van Oorschot HFC +3 more
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Use of Transabdominal Ultrasound Imaging in Retraining the Pelvic-Floor Muscles of a Woman Postpartum [PDF]
, 2008 Allison Ariail +2 more
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Vulvovaginal Symptoms Questionnaire for assessing vulvovaginal symptoms and symptom‐related influences in women with breast cancer. Design A methodological study. Methods Women with breast cancer (n = 202) were recruited from the outpatient department of a hospital ...
Yueh‐Ching Lee +5 more
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RoMedFormer: A Rotary-Embedding Transformer Foundation Model for 3D Genito-Pelvic Structure Segmentation in MRI and CT [PDF]
arXivDeep learning-based segmentation of genito-pelvic structures in MRI and CT is crucial for applications such as radiation therapy, surgical planning, and disease diagnosis. However, existing segmentation models often struggle with generalizability across imaging modalities, and anatomical variations.
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Journal of Advanced Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims (1) To analyse individual and institutional‐level factors associated with urinary incontinence in older adults living in nursing homes; (2) to estimate the prevalence of urinary, faecal and double incontinence in nursing home residents. Design Cross‐sectional study. Methods Residents aged 65+ living in 22 nursing homes in Catalonia (Spain)
Javier Jerez‐Roig +9 more
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Mechanisms of Pelvic Floor Muscle Function and the Effect on the Urethra during a Cough [PDF]
, 2009 Ruth Jones +5 more
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Bipedalism or bipedalisms: The os coxae of StW 573
Journal of Anatomy, EarlyView.There has been a long debate about the possibility of multiple contemporaneous species of Australopithecus in both eastern and southern Africa, potentially exhibiting different forms of bipedal locomotion. Here, we describe the previously unreported morphology of the os coxae in the 3.67 Ma Australopithecus prometheus StW 573 from Sterkfontein Member 2
Robin Crompton +15 more
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Protocol for Physiotherapy OR Tvt Randomised Efficacy Trial (PORTRET): a multicentre randomised controlled trial to assess the cost-effectiveness of the tension free vaginal tape versus pelvic floor muscle training in women with symptomatic moderate to severe stress urinary incontinence [PDF]
, 2009 J. Labrie +4 more
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Journal of Clinical Nursing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aim To explore the perceptions of patients with prostate cancer undergoing androgen deprivation therapy towards mobile health interventions. Design The study employed a qualitative descriptive design. Methods Seventeen participants were recruited from tertiary care hospitals from November 2022 to June 2023. The collected data were subsequently
Hongfan Yin, Chen Pan, Jia Gu, Yan Yang
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