- Bladder and Urothelial Cancer Treatments
- Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Renal cell carcinoma treatment
- Urinary and Genital Oncology Studies
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Renal and related cancers
- Urological Disorders and Treatments
- Elbow and Forearm Trauma Treatment
- Bone fractures and treatments
- Cancer survivorship and care
- Dupuytren's Contracture and Treatments
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Breast Implant and Reconstruction
- Trauma Management and Diagnosis
- Shoulder and Clavicle Injuries
- Shoulder Injury and Treatment
- Musculoskeletal synovial abnormalities and treatments
- Surgical Sutures and Adhesives
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Genital Health and Disease
- Pediatric Urology and Nephrology Studies
Universitätsmedizin Greifswald
2015-2024
University of Colorado Denver
2021-2024
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
2020-2024
University of Southern California
1994-2024
University of Colorado Hospital
2024
Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology
2019-2023
Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin
2019-2023
California State University, Long Beach
2012-2023
Rush University Medical Center
2023
Mayo Clinic
2012-2023
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Prostate Cancer Early Detection provide recommendations prostate cancer screening healthy men who have elected to participate an early detection program. focus on minimizing unnecessary procedures and limiting the of indolent disease. These Insights summarize Panel's most significant discussions 2016 guideline update, which included issues surrounding high-risk populations (ie, African Americans, BRCA1/2 mutation...
Wound antisepsis has undergone a renaissance due to the introduction of highly effective wound-compatible antimicrobial agents and spread multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). However, strict indication must be set for application these agents. An infected or critically colonized wound treated antiseptically. In addition, systemic antibiotic therapy is required in case infection spreads. If applied preventively, Wounds-at-Risk Score allows an assessment risk thus appropriateness indication....
Iodobenzene diacetate in MeOH containing a catalytic amount of TFA efficiently oxidizes aldoximes to nitrile oxides. The latter may be trapped situ with olefins bimolecular or an intramolecular mode. new method enables the execution tandem oxidative dearomatization phenols/intramolecular oxide cycloaddition sequences leading useful synthetic intermediates.
Background and study aims: Endoscopic transpapillary gallbladder drainage for symptomatic disease is a safe effective bridge therapy in patients at high risk surgery or who have terminal liver are awaiting transplantation. However, there few reports on long-term results terms of stent patency clinical course. Our was designed to investigate the course after endoscopic stenting (ETGS) with disease.
Drug resistant patients undergoing epilepsy surgery have a good chance to become sensitive anticonvulsant medication, suggesting that the resected brain tissue is responsible for drug resistance. Here, we address question whether P-glycoprotein (Pgp) and multidrug resistance-associated proteins (MRPs) expressed in contribute resistance vitro. Effects of anti-epileptic drugs [carbamazepine (CBZ), sodium valproate, phenytoin] two unspecific inhibitors Pgp MRPs [verapamil (VPM) probenecid...
Despite a rapid dissemination of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) over open (ORP), to date no study has compared perioperative outcomes between the two approaches in patients with high-risk prostate cancer (PCa). The aim our was evaluate safety and feasibility RARP this setting.Overall, 1,512 PCa within Surveillance, Epidemiology, End RESULTS (SEER) Medicare-linked database diagnosed 2008 2009 were abstracted. Patients treated or ORP. Postoperative complications, blood...
Women experience orthostatic intolerance more than men, and they faintness in the early follicular [i.e., low-hormone (LH)] luteal high-hormone (HH)] phase of menstrual cycle. Men (n = 13, 25.8 ± 1.8 yr old) women LH (days 2-5; placebo) HH 18-24; high dose) phases cycle with (OC; n 14, 22.0 0.8 or without (NOC; 12, 21.8 0.5 oral contraceptive (OC) use underwent Valsalva maneuver a supine-sit-stand protocol. Blood pressure, normalized stroke volume [stroke index (SVi)], cardiac output index,...
Objective To describe the extent of use and in‐hospital outcomes open laparoscopic pyeloplasty for paediatric pelvi‐ureteric junction ( PUJ ) obstruction in USA . Patients Methods Using 2004–2008 N ationwide I npatient S ample, we identified 4590 patients (≤18 years old) who underwent or at 195 hospitals. Multivariable regression models were used to test associations between hospital patient covariates (age, gender, race, primary health insurance), type admission (emergent vs elective),...
Aims The aim of this study was to investigate whether clinical and radiological outcomes after intramedullary nailing displaced fractures the fifth metacarpal neck using a single thick Kirschner wire (K-wire) are noninferior those technically more demanding fixation with two thinner dual wires. Patients Methods This multicentre, parallel group, randomized controlled noninferiority trial conducted at 12 tertiary trauma centres in Germany. A total 290 patients acute were either single-wire (n...
Although not mutagenic by Ames test, 2,5-dimethylfuran (DMF), a leading biofuel candidate, was found to induce chromosomal damage in cultured murine cells, suggesting that it may be genotoxic. We sought prioritize the environmental and biological impacts of using DMF as combustible biofuel. First, we assessed its combustion intermediates for potential persistence, bioaccumulation, aquatic toxicity (PBT) PBT profiler. Our findings predict have moderate-level toxicity; however, greater subset...
Cambodian American college students are often overlooked in academe because of the model minority myth. The stereotype overshadows challenges and heterogeneity Asian Pacific Islander population. This exploratory study examined experiences 13 first-generation at a large, public institution California. Findings revealed that, despite obstacles being with limited cultural capital, were transformed into successful leaners when they received validation from their parents peers felt sense...
Chiral metabolites of ketamine exerting rapid-onset yet sustained antidepressant effects may be marketed directly in the future, but require chemo- and enantio-selective chromatographic methods for quality assurance control. The behavior S-/R-ketamine, S-/R-norketamine, S-/R-dehydronorketamine, (2R,6R)-/(2S,6S)-hydroxynorketamine supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) was investigated computationally experimentally with aim identifying problematic pairs enantiomers parameters chiral...
Patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphomas who failed to respond chemotherapy were treated low dose fractionated total body irradiation (TBI). Prior to, during and after scheduled therapy, their clinical status was evaluated peripheral blood studies performed enumerate EAC E rosetting cells measure proliferative responses mitogens. Peripheral abnormalities present prior TBI using these in vitro assays. obtained remissions following therapy had restoration of mitogen responses, whereas patients...
ABSTRACTObjectives African American prostate cancer survivors experience post-treatment decisional regret more often than European Americans, which can lead to negative long-term effects on quality of life. A prominent driver health-related decision-making is emotion, yet little work has examined the impact emotions may have regret. The goal this study was explore experiences, perceptions, and in relation their diagnostic treatment processes, treatment, outcomes. Additionally, we sought...
Introduction Although shoulder girdle injuries are frequent, those of the medial part widely unexplored. Our aim is to improve knowledge this rare injury and its management in Germany by big data analysis. Methods The based on ICD-10 codes all German hospitals as provided Federal Statistical Office. Based S42.01 (medial clavicle fracture, MCF) S43.2 (sternoclavicular joint dislocation, SCJD), anonymized patient from 2012 2014 were evaluated retrospectively for epidemiologic issues. We...
Although shoulder-girdle injuries occur frequently, of the medial part remain widely unexplored. This study overviews these rare with a focus on incidence, age, and sex distribution in Germany.The data are based diagnoses according to ICD-10 all German hospitals provided by Federal Statistical Office. codes S42.01 (medial clavicle fracture, MCF) S43.2 (sternoclavicular joint dislocation, SCJD) were evaluated detail between 2012 2014.We identified 14,264 cases (MCIs). MCFs occurred more often...
We compared the prognostic ability of current American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) staging system to direct measurement depth tumor invasion into muscularis propria and perivesical fat.We identified 148 patients with pT2N0 206 pT3N0 who underwent radical cystectomy between 1990 2003. Clinicopathological features were reviewed. A in mm was recorded for pT2 cases fat pT3 cases. specific survival pT2a pT2b, pT3a pT3b patient groups estimated using Kaplan-Meier method log rank test. Optimal...