BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The aim of the present report was to provide an overview of the use of the artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) in adult females with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) over the past 50 years. METHODS: A literature search was conducted in December 2022 and January 2023 using the MEDLINE and Embase databases, screening for ran...
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Introduction: Accurate determination of the internal length of nasogastric tubes is essential for the safe and effective completion of blind insertions, a routine nursing procedure. The widely used nose-earlobe-xiphoid distance lacks evidence and effectiveness. A recent randomized controlled trial proposed an alternative, the corrected nose-earlobe...
This study uses eye-tracking technology to examine how television program-induced moods (sad vs. neutral vs. happy) affect viewers' attitudinal responses to brand placement and whether an advertising disclosure can moderate these effects. The respondents (N = 243) were exposed to an episode of a popular television series in which a brand was placed...
BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Moving into a nursing home is often an unavoidable life event for older people living with dementia. It is associated with negative emotions and outcomes. Research capturing their perspectives is scarce. This study aims to identify how older people living with dementia perceive a potential life in a nursing home and to unders...
BACKGROUND: A pre-emptive transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (pTIPS) reduces mortality in high-risk patients with cirrhosis (Child-Pugh C/B+active bleeding) with acute variceal bleeding (AVB). Real-life studies point out that 56, shock, Model for End-Stage Liver Disease score >15, endoscopic+drug treatment and HE at admission were indepe...
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) require a much longer compilation cycle than conventional computing platforms such as CPUs. In this article, we shorten the overall compilation time by co-optimizing the HLS compilation (C-to-RTL) and the back-end physical implementation (RTL-to-bitstream). We propose a split compilation approach based on the ...
Microhepathia is a common finding in dogs with a congenital extrahepatic portosystemic shunt (EHPSS). Surgical attenuation results in complete closure of the EHPSS in the majority of cases, while persistent portosystemic shunting remains present in some dogs. The aim of this retrospective study was to assess whether liver size increases on abdomina...
BackgroundThe long-term clinical outcome of mini dental implants (MDIs) to support an overdenture is underreported especially in severely atrophic maxillae and when installed flaplessly. PurposeThe current report is a 5-years follow-up of the previously published 2- and 3-years clinical outcome of MDIs supporting a maxillary overdenture in narrow a...
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