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In the 2007 American Heart Association guidelines, gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) procedures were removed from the indications for infective endocarditis (IE) prophylaxis. The purpose of this study was to estimate the contribution of GI and GU procedures to the occurrence of IE in orde...
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PMID: 20085430
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This review discusses the current and emerging techniques in urinary tract imaging. Recent technical advances and novel discoveries make this an exciting but challenging time for urinary tract imaging. The first section describes the imaging of the adrenal gland which has made great strides in the l...
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PMID: 20622393
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to define main differential diagnostic criteria for arthritides of chlamydial and pseudotuberculous etiology and to improve patient examination tactics.
Forty-six patients with pseudotuberculosis and 41 patients with chronic urogenital chlamydial infection with articu...
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PMID: 21381351
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To establish the andrological service at the territory of the Russian Federation it is proposed to use the modular principle with the organization of the net of primary and consolidated modules in the regions of the Altai Krai and in the Coordinating Federal Center. For the realization of the projec...
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PMID: 20499693
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The analysis of urological care for HIV infected patients treated in Moscow city clinical hospital N 47 covers 12-year trends in hospitalization of HIV-infected urological patients, their nosological distribution, statistics of surgical outcomes. The highest efficacy of empiric antibacterial therapy...
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PMID: 20967988
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A 46-year-old male patient visited our hospital with the chief complaint of a right scrotal swelling and pain. The enlarged scrotum was 8 cm in diameter with redness of the skin of the right scrotum. There was a firm mass in the scrotum with marked tenderness. The patient's body temperature was 38.0...
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PMID: 19946195
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GU/STI quality performance improvement in Barbados requires rapid laboratory diagnosis, standardized data formats with prompt expedited partner notification and treatment appointments and use of recommended algorithm that can half the cost of medication. Genitourinary medicine should be strategized...
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PMID: 20441069
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Symptomatic urethral infection and lower abdominal pain was less common in women with nvCT as compared to wtCT. Infection with nvCT was more frequently asymptomatic suggesting a possible difference in virulence between the nvCT strain and the wtCT strain....
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PMID: 19617866
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Since the first description of the "endothelium-derived relaxing factor" (EDRF) in 1980 the function of the endothelium has developed into a field of research of its own. The most important endothelial factor is nitric oxide (NO), which is formed from l-arginine with the help of NO synthase (NOS). D...
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PMID: 19492277
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Although cryptorchidism and hypospadias were not associated with in utero PBB exposure, this study suggests that other GU conditions may be associated with exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals during development....
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PMID: 19654930
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Biofilms represent a cohesive matrix of microrganisms and other cellular constituents that might be present in any natural environment. Microrganisms able to produce biofilms undergo a number of distinctive and typical phenomenon, such as adhesiveness on infected cellular surfaces that consequently...
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PMID: 19696556
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As a result of a reiterated endogamic matrimonial policy, the Hapsburg dynasty died out in Spain in 1700, represented by Charles II, a pluripatho-logical king who can only be freed from speculation by chromosomal and genetic studies of his remains buried in El Escorial monastery....
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PMID: 19542589
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Seminal bactericidal activity (SBA) that is referred to as a factor of natural resistance and that controls bacterial survival in the male urogenital tract is an integral index of the congenital adaptive mechanisms of mucosal defense. The paper shows changes in SBA and other indices of the functiona...
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PMID: 19388484
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There were 101 male and 164 female patients (sex ratio M/F = 0.61) ranging in age from 2 to 84 years (mean age = 38.7). In our series, hydatid cysts involved mainly the kidney (24.1%), the central nervous system (22.6%), the liver (19.6%) and the spleen (11.3%). The other less frequent sites include...
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PMID: 19522445
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There were no statistical differences comparing saddle pressure between the two trunk positions for women. For men a statistical difference between the trunk positions for the saddle with a hole was found. Thus, the trunk forwards shift seems to affect the values of saddle pressure only for men usin...
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PMID: 19172089
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C. trachomatis was detected in blood by using 2 tests (culture and PCR) in 95.2% of patients with confirmed Chlamydia infection. Chlamydia isolated from blood had infectious properties that could point to the presence of weakly studied hematogenic route of dissemination of C. trachomatis in host's o...
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PMID: 19718830
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As chemical molecules, these drugs were shown to exert potential nonerectogenic beneficial effects. They showed efficacy as a useful adjunct in the management of pulmonary hypertension. Additional uses were extended to different utilities: essential hypertension, benign prostatic hyperplasia, gastro...
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PMID: 18761597
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Methicillin resistant S. aureus has become the predominant organism causing pediatric superficial genitourinary abscesses at our institution, accounting for three-quarters of all surgically managed infections in the last 2 years. Methicillin resistant S. aureus was more common at the groin and genit...
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PMID: 18710758
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In this sample of patients attending STD clinics in Taiwan, syndromic management was found to be a more cost-effective protocol in terms of cost per treated STD patient compared with the current and aetiological protocols for STD....
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PMID: 18426845
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We show urogenital tract isolates representing the most common PIA VR types identified in an urban clinic in Baltimore, MD, over a 10-year period belonged to several different clonal types, as determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Serum resistance, which was confirmed by factor H an...
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PMID: 18541655
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Ultrasonography (US) was applied in this community-based study in northern Madagascar to compare urogenital findings in Schistosoma haematobium-positive individuals (105 women and 116 men) from the high-endemic Sirama village, with urinary egg negative controls (100 women and 108 men) from the neigh...
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PMID: 18472119
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Evaluation of this program showed that GP trainers were a valuable resource for conducting training programs for GPs, being experienced role models who could provide relevant and practical training to their colleagues. DISCUSSION: While resource intensive, the TTT model provided an effective means o...
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PMID: 18704224
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The activity of moxifloxacin was compared with that of other antimicrobial agents against 54 strains of Ureaplasma spp., 54 strains of Mycoplasma hominis, 14 strains of Mycoplasma genitalium, and 44 strains of Chlamydia trachomatis. Moxifloxacin inhibited 90% of all isolates at a concentration =1...
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PMID: 18727805
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A history of anal intercourse should be sought in patients with unexplained genito-urinary symptoms....
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PMID: 18634737
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The addition of HDR-BT before EBRT with a reduced dose from the EBRT produces a comparable survival outcome and GU toxicity but a significantly less GI toxicity for prostate cancer patients....
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PMID: 18621848
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The case notes of cases of genital chlamydial infection were audited against the UK National Guideline. This was the first web-based and the largest national audit to date, with 193 clinics in all UK Regions contributing data. About half of all cases had no symptoms, with about one-third attending f...
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PMID: 18574119
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Verbal information-giving is good, but only half of cases were reportedly given written information on chlamydia. Follow-up by 'phoning or texting (43%) was as common as follow-up in clinics (39%). About one-fourth of cases did not have follow up, with no recall for around 60% of these cases. Advice...
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PMID: 18574120
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There was a wide range of activity and chlamydial diagnoses between the 177 clinics that responded. Most (92%) clinics have nucleic acid tests for chlamydial diagnosis. Different practitioners largely share roles in providing advice to patients about partner notification, treatment adherence, safer...
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PMID: 18574121
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IBS patients present with a twofold increase in somatic comorbidities compared to controls, possibly caused by common pathophysiological mechanisms. Nevertheless, to date, there has been no convincing evidence for a consolidated underlying pathophysiology or somatization. Gastrointestinal disorders,...
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PMID: 18501257
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The field of regenerative medicine continues to make substantial advancements in therapeutic strategies addressing urologic diseases. Tissue engineering borrows principles from the fields of cell biology, materials science, transplantation and engineering in an effort to repair or replace damaged ti...
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PMID: 18427290
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OBJECTIVE: To report a case of transurethral resection of the ejaculatory duct in a fertile man with normozoospermia. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: Large federal hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. PATIENT(S): A 29-year-old man with normal semen analysis values who had recently fathered a healthy child,...
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PMID: 17603053
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The article deals with issues of diabetic autonomous neuropathy (DAN) in the urogenital tract (UGT), and brings attention to the ethiopathogenesis of diabetic polyneuropathy. It provides a synopsis of autonomous neuropathy and deals, in more detail, with its manifestations in the UGT. The different...
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PMID: 18630632
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INTRODUCTION: The diabetes mellitus is risk factor for urologic surgery. The best prevention of complications is excellent compensation of diabetes, appropriated management of anesthesia and good post surgery care. The diabetes is etiologic risk factor many urologic diseases including malignant. URO...
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PMID: 18630626
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Infections of the urinary tract are the aetiological reasons for primary infertility in up to 9% of infertile men. Taking into account that post-operative infection following vasovasostomy can lead to closure of the realigned deferent duct, special consideration should be given to consultation and t...
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PMID: 18336458
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Urogenital infections with Chlamydia trachomatis belong to the most prevalent sexually-transmitted bacterial diseases. In women, they can cause chronic salpingitis with subsequent tubal infertility and ectopic pregnancies. In men, C. trachomatis can cause urethritis, prostatitis and epididymitis. Ur...
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PMID: 18336462
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The management of benign prostatic hyperplasia was transurethral resection of prostate until simpler and alternative treatments were tried in the last two decades, particularly alpha(1) adrenoceptor-blocking agents. Tamsulosin is a potent, third-generation selective alpha(1A) adrenoceptor-blocking a...
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PMID: 18345957
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The pathological alteration of the nervous system in diabetic patients is extensive and frequently severe. The prevalence of the diabetic neuropathy reach high levels with the evolution of the diabetes, often showing frequencies higher than 50% in several groups of patients. The neurological lesion...
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PMID: 18438551
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The authors compared the detection rate of DNA of urogenital Mycoplasmas (Ureaplasma spp. and M. hominis) in the urogenital tract (UGT) and serum samples by polymerase chain reaction. Testing the smears and serum samples from the same patients (n = 112) showed that Ureaplasma was more frequently det...
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PMID: 18450085
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With a median follow-up of 46 months, the 5-year overall, clinical progression-free, and biochemical relapse-free survival rate were 93.0, 95.3 and 71.9% for all patients, respectively. The 5-year progression-free, and biochemical relapse-free survival rates according to the risk group were 100%, 90...
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PMID: 18304950
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We surveyed those attending the clinic with a new episode between September and December 2005 by a questionnaire. One hundred and fifteen of 601 respondents (19%) visited the website. Fifty-nine percent of users were men with those aged between 35 and 44 ranking the highest percentage (31.7%) among...
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PMID: 18397554
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OBJECTIVE: To report our experience with TURED in infertile men with EDO associated with abnormal development of the mesonephric or Wolffian duct, causing a contemporary malformation of the ipsilateral upper urinary tract. DESIGN: Retrospective clinical study. SETTING: Infertile men in an hospital e...
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PMID: 17675001
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In this article an overview is given of the present knowledge of whole body MRI, MRI of the retroperitoneum, intestines and pelvis. Recommendations are based on current literature and clinical applications in daily routine focusing on efficacy rather than cost considerations. The contribution and co...
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PMID: 18096342
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The objective of this study was to elucidate the incidence and clinical features of renal dysfunction and urogenital system disorders in 956 patients with chronic obstructive lung disease (COLD) and/or coronary heart disease (CHD). COLD was diagnosed in 346 patients (group 1), COLD and CHD in 402 (g...
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PMID: 19069454
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