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Selected Abstracts


The Use of Microdermabrasion for Acne: A Pilot Study

DERMATOLOGIC SURGERY, Issue 4 2001
Jenifer R. Lloyd DO
Background. Microdermabrasion is a superficial peeling modality that has become quite popular with our patients and the media. Objective. To evaluate the use of microdermabrasion in patients with acne. Methods. Twenty-five patients with grade II,III acne were enrolled into this pilot study. All patients were under dermatologic care and were maintained on their acne medications throughout the study. Patients received eight microdermabrasion treatments at weekly intervals. The results were documented with before and after photographs and evaluated for clinical improvement. Results. Twenty-four patients completed the study with 38% (9/24) having excellent results, 34% (8/24) with good results, 17% (4/24) with fair results, and 12% (3/24) with poor results. Ninety-six percent (23/24) of patients were pleased with their peel results and would recommend this procedure to others. Conclusion. The use of microdermabrasion in this pilot study appeared to produce a positive effect on the improvement of acne. [source]


Tunica albuginea urethroplasty for anterior urethral strictures: A urethroscopic analysis

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF UROLOGY, Issue 9 2009
Raj K Mathur
Objective: To assess the efficacy of tunica albuginea urethroplasty (TAU) for anterior urethral strictures. Methods: We assessed 206 patients with anterior urethral strictures who underwent TAU. The procedure involves mobilization of strictured urethra and laying it open with a dorsal slit. Edges of the slit-open urethra are sutured to edges of the urethral groove with a silicon catheter in situ. Thus in neourethra, the roof is formed by tunica albuginea of the urethral groove. Results were assessed at 6, 12, 24 and 36 months by comparative analysis of patient satisfaction along with retrograde urethrogram, urethrosonogram, uroflowmetry, and were categorized as good, fair and poor. Good and fair results were considered as successful. Thirty patients were taken for postoperative urethroscopic analysis to allow better understanding of both successful and failed cases. Results: Postoperative evaluation at 6 months showed a 96.6% success rate, which decreased to 94.7% at 1 year, 93.2% at 2 years and over 90% at the end of 3 years. The overall failure rate was 9.2%, which required revision surgery. Urethroscopic visualization of the reconstruction site showed wide, patent and distensible neourethra uniformly lined by urothelium over roof formed by tunica albuginea of the corpora cavernosa in successful cases. Failure cases showed diffuse fibrotic narrowing or circumferential scarring. Conclusion: Tunica albuginea is a locally available distensible tissue, sufficient to maintain the patency of the neourethra, without any graft or flap. TAU is easier and useful when patients have unhealthy oral mucosa due to tobacco chewing. [source]


The importance of housing costs in cross-national comparisons of welfare (state) outcomes

INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL SECURITY REVIEW, Issue 2 2003
Veli-Matti Ritakallio
Mainstream comparative research on welfare policy outcomes has focused mainly on the role of government benefits and resulting distributions of income. From the point of view of the economic well-being of households, it is said that this narrow approach has produced results which have exaggerated the difference between continental western Europe and the New World. It has been argued that, to get fair results, comparative studies of welfare outcomes should take into account the differences in housing policies and structures of tenure. The ownership of private houses is more common in the New World nations than in Europe. Home ownership is thought to improve the economic well-being of the typical poverty-prone group, namely older people. This article tests how the cross-national picture of poverty and inequality changes when we approach the economic well-being of households on the basis of disposable incomes after housing costs instead of the traditional, purely income-based approach. The empirical analysis shows that, instead of vast differences in inequality, poverty and, in particular, old-age poverty, the real differences between Australia and Finland are only modest when housing costs are taken into account. [source]


PERCUTANEOUS THERMORHIZOTOMY IN A CLINICAL SERIES OF 80 PATIENTS WITH TRIGEMINAL NEURALGIA.

JOURNAL OF THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, Issue 1 2002
F. Rychlicki
At the time of this report, 80 patients have been operated upon for typical trigeminal neuralgia by the percutaneous rhizotomy approach. Through follow-up evaluation extending over a period of 1 to 20 years, it has been completed for 65 of these patients. The average age was 63 years and 60% of patients were female. In 60% of patients pain was located on the right, and the second and third division of the trigeminal nerve were commonly involved. Isolated pain in the first or third division was less frequent than the second division. The disease had been present for an average of 8 years and was characterized by increasingly severe episodes of paroxismal pain and shortening period of remission. Nearly all patients had been treated with either diphenylhydantoin or carbamazepine, as well as other forms of medical and physical remedies. Response to follow-up was obtained for all 65 patients. All were contacted by questionnaire on phone and a family member was contacted if the patient had died. At the time of evaluation, 94% of patients reported excellent to good results from the procedure. The remaining patients obtained only fair results because of undesirable side-effects or recurrence of pain. The authors emphasize the importance of surgical therapy in trigeminal neuralgia when medical therapy fails. [source]


Clinical and radiological outcomes after revision to the low-contact-stress mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty

ANZ JOURNAL OF SURGERY, Issue 5 2009
David J. Whitehead
Abstract Background:, The aim of the present study was to investigate the short,medium-term clinical and radiological outcomes in revision total knee arthroplasty using a mobile-bearing implant. Methods:, Forty patients (42 knees) who had revisions using the New Jersey low-contact-stress (LCS) mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty between 1996 and 2000 were reviewed. Results:, The average age at revision was 71 years (range, 38,86 years) and the average follow up was 6 years (range, 5,9 years). Of the 34 patients reviewed clinically, six had excellent results, and 20 had good results, to give a total of 76% excellent or good results. There were five (15%) fair results and three (9%) poor results. Seven patients required revision of the components. There was one case of instability within the first year of revision, which required only exchange of the polyethylene bearing to achieve a satisfactory clinical outcome. Of the 31 knees reviewed radiologically, progressive radiolucent lines were seen at the bone,cement interface in five (16%) of the femoral components and in two (6%) of the tibial components. Conclusion:, Unconstrained LCS mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty can be used in revision surgery with satisfactory results after medium-term follow up (level of evidence: therapeutic level III). [source]