Urological Problems in Patients with Menkes Disease [PDF]
Journal of Korean Medical Science, 2019 Menkes disease (MD) is a rare X-linked hereditary multisystemic disorder that is caused by dysfunction of copper metabolism. Patients with MD typically present with progressive neurodegeneration, some connective tissue abnormalities, and characteristic "kinky" hair.
Mi Young Kim +10 more
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Sexually transmitted infections in indigenous communities of the Alto Rio Solimões
DST, 2021 Introduction: The prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STI) among indigenous communities is an appalling issue related to Brazilian public health, as there is an increasing underreporting and neglect related to the study and care of these ...
André Gabriel Gruber +5 more
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Assessing somatization in urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: This study examined the prevalence of somatization disorder in Urological Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome (UCPPS) and the utility of two self-report symptom screening tools for assessment of somatization in patients with UCPPS.
Alpers, D H +3 more
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Similarity of competing risks models with constant intensities in an application to clinical healthcare pathways involving prostate cancer surgery [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The recent availability of routine medical data, especially in a university-clinical context, may enable the discovery of typical healthcare pathways, i.e., typical temporal sequences of clinical interventions or hospital readmissions. However, such pathways are heterogeneous in a large provider such as a university hospital, and it is important to ...
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Urine culture and partial urinalysis in the diagnosis of urinary tract infections
Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2020 Background: urinary tract infections are one of the most frequent causes of infectious disease in the medical practice.Objective: to describe the results of the sample processing of urine culture and partial urinalysis for the diagnosis of urinary tract ...
MIlagros de la Caridad Milá-Pascual +2 more
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Nuclear Medicine in Pediatric Urology [PDF]
Childhood Kidney Diseases, 2015 Renal scintigraphic methods, which are physiologic and minimally invasive, have played important role in the management of various renal diseases in children, providing sensitive tool for early detection of disease even before structural changes become ...
Su Jin Jang
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Forecasting Disease Burden In Philippines: A Symbolic Regression Analysis [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Burden of disease measures the impact of living with illness and injury and dying prematurely and it is increasing worldwide leading cause of death both global and national. This paper aimed to propose an index of diseases and evaluate a mathematical model to describe the number of burden of disease by cause in the Philippines from 1990 - 2016. Through
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A Case of Urogenital Human Schistosomiasis from a Non-endemic Area [PDF]
, 2015 © 2015 Calvo-Cano et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are ...
A Berry +21 more
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Deep learning-based computer vision to recognize and classify suturing gestures in robot-assisted surgery [PDF]
arXiv, 2020 Our previous work classified a taxonomy of suturing gestures during a vesicourethral anastomosis of robotic radical prostatectomy in association with tissue tears and patient outcomes. Herein, we train deep-learning based computer vision (CV) to automate the identification and classification of suturing gestures for needle driving attempts.
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Antimicrobial resistance in pediatric patients with urinary tract infection
Revista Electrónica Dr. Zoilo E. Marinello Vidaurreta, 2018 Background: antimicrobial resistance in pediatric patients with urinary tract infection is a growing problem, with an important medical impact. Nowadays, resistance of E.
Zunilda Leticia Bello-Fernández +4 more
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