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The pathophysiology of stress urinary incontinence in women and its implications for surgical treatment
(Springer-Verlag, 1997-10)
Stress urinary incontinence is a symptom that arises from damage to the muscles, nerves, and connective tissue of the pelvic floor. Urethral support, vesical neck function, and function of the urethral muscles are important ...
Perceptions of Clinical Research Participation among African American Women
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-04-01)
Background: Recruiting minority women into clinical research remains a significant challenge to conducting ethnically representative research. The main objective of this Office on Women's Health, DHHS-funded e-health ...
Recruitment of Women Research Participants: The Women's Health Registry at the University of Michigan
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers, 2007-06-01)
Objective: The goal was to develop the Women's Health Registry, a research participant database that prospectively collects detailed information on potential research subjects to assist in linking them with open research ...
Desmoplastic and neurotropic melanoma
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2004-02-01)
BACKGROUND Desmoplastic and neurotropic melanoma (DNMM) occasionally metastasizes to regional lymph nodes and extranodal sites. The value of sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) has not been demonstrated clearly for patients ...
Dilated renal collecting systems:Differentiating obstructive from nonobstructive dilation using duplex doppler ultrasound
(Elsevier, 1991-02)
Two patients with ileal loop urinary diversions, studied with real-time and Doppler sonogphy ("duplex sonography") of the kidneys, were shown to have dilated intrarenal collecting Resistive index measurements calculated ...
Nifedipine pretreatment for autonomicdysreflexia during electroejaculation
(Elsevier, 1990-09)
Ten spinal-cord-injured males who exhibited autonomic dysreflexia during electro-ejaculationwere given sublingual calcium channel blocker nifedipine pretreatment to prevent this complication. Nifedipine was successful in ...
Experience of a combined gynecology/urology clinic in the University of Michigan Medical Center
(Springer-Verlag; International Urogynecology Journal, 1994-06)
Over a period of 30 months, 200 patients were seen in the combined gynecology/urology clinic of the University of Michigan Medical Center. Nintey-nine patients (49.5%) were referred by urologists and 86 (43%) by gynecologists. ...
Emergent Behaviors in a Deterministic Model of the Human Uterus
(2009-11-10)
A cellular automaton designed to mimic the geometry, and physiologic function of the human uterus in labor produces patterns of activity which provide insight into how the human uterus functions in the birth process.
State-Specific Trends in Preterm Delivery: Are Rates Really Declining Among Non-Hispanic African Americans Across the United States?
(Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006-01)
Objectives : This study sought to examine state-specific trends in preterm delivery rates among non-Hispanic African Americans and to assess whether these rates are influenced by misclassification of gestational age. Methods ...
Structural aspects of urethrovesical function in the female
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 1988)
Urodynamic investigations have provided detailed physiologic information which raises morphologic questions not easily answered by older descriptions of urethral anatomy. This article describes urethrovesical structure ...