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Widespread Psychosocial Difficulties in Men and Women With Urologic Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndromes: Case-control Findings From the Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network. [Urology. 2015
antibiotic prophylaxis and prostate biopsy
No full textPerioperative antibiotic prophylaxis is considered a safe and valid option from the urologist to prevent infective complications after prostate biopsy procedure. The transrectal approach is the most experienced by European urologists and the prevalence of infective complications from this procedure is increasing. Aim of this mini-review article is to improve the urologist knowledge on the prevention of infective complications after prostate transrectal biopsy.
METHODS:
Recent publications from Medline and Cochrane Library have been collected. Data from the abstracts presented at the EAU and AUA Congresses during the last 5 years have also been analysed.
RESULTS:
Fluorquinolone and other antibiotics-resistant bacteria prevalence is normally very high. Other strategies of infective complication prevention such as the use of rectal swab microbiological analysis and relative antibiotics/sensitivity test or the rectal enema with antiseptic solutions or the combined use of different antibiotics are thus justified. The number of biopsy cores reduction and the perineal approach still remain valid alternative indirect options.
CONCLUSIONS:
Different innovative prevention strategies can be easily used in daily clinical practice to reduce the risk of infectious complications after transrectal prostate biopsy, although a specific policy should be adequately introduced to obtain optimal effects from the current use of antibiotic prophylaxis strategies, thus reducing the risk of developing life-threatening situations for the patient and antibiotic resistance phenomena
Words of Wisdom: Ciprofloxacin resistance in the faecal carriage of patients undergoing transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy
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Ciprofloxacin resistance in the faecal carriage of patients undergoing transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy. [BJU Int. 2013
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No full textStandard treatments for urethral strictures include multiple options such as the simple urethral dilatation, the telescope-guided internal cutting (urethrotomy), and the open urethroplasty, with variable results in terms of adverse events, stricture recurrence, and the satisfaction of the patient. Wong et al1 recently found no sufficient data to perform meta-analysis or reliably determine effect size of clinical studies on patients with urethral strictures treated with conservative or reconstructive surgery
Re:The presence of Chlamydia is associated with increased leukocyte counts and pain severity in men with chronic pelvic pain syndrome [Urology 2015; 85:574-579]
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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