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vNOTES ULH appears to be feasible in women with uterine prolapse when uterus conservative treatment is desired. Advantages of this technique include good exposure of the ureter, lowering the risk of ureteric injury. In addition, the absence of incisions on the abdomen eliminates the risk of abdominal wound infection and incisional pain and yields a better cosmetic outcome. Further studies are needed to appraise the long-term outcomes and demonstrate the ultimate use of this modality.
vNOTES ULH appears to be feasible in women with uterine prolapse when uterus conservative treatment is desired. Advantages of this technique include good exposure of the ureter, lowering the risk of ureteric injury. In addition, the absence of incisions on the abdomen eliminates the risk of abdominal wound infection and incisional pain and yields a better cosmetic outcome. Further studies are needed to appraise the long-term outcomes and demonstrate the ultimate use of this modality.
Radiographic measurement of the change in knee joint space width (ΔJSW) is often affected by image parallax, which causes an apparent exaggeration of JSW due to projectional differences. This issue with parallax (quantified by intermargin distance) can in part be addressed with a novel mid-coronal plane (MCP) measurement method. The objectives of the study were to determine 1) accuracy and 2) reproducibility of the MCP method, and 3) compare the MCP method to that used in the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI) for different categories of parallax.

Posteroanterior radiographs (n=70) with known JSW were digitally reconstructed from CT images of cadaver knees and used to determine the accuracy of ΔJSW using the MCP method for parallax categories of None, Mild/Moderate, and Severe. Reproducibility was determined from pairs of clinical radiographs selected from the OAI (n=170). The MCP method was also compared to the OAI methodology. Both reproducibility and agreement were characterized by Bland-Altman analysis and intraclass correlation coefficients (ICC).

The MCP method was accurate to 0.11mm in cases with no parallax, and 0.18mm across all categories of parallax for medial and lateral compartments. Reproducibility of the MCP method was graded "excellent" (ICC 0.98, 95% CI [0.98, 0.99]). The MCP results agreed very well with the OAI (ICC 0.92, 95% CI [0.89, 0.94]), with mean absolute differences between methods increasing with increasing parallax.

The MCP method is an accurate, reproducible alternative to the OAI method for multi-center clinical trials where subject and X-ray beam positioning may be variable.
The MCP method is an accurate, reproducible alternative to the OAI method for multi-center clinical trials where subject and X-ray beam positioning may be variable.
To appraise the highest evidence on hip morphology as a risk factor for developing hip osteoarthritis (OA).

We searched for studies evaluating the association between radiological hip morphology parameters and the prevalence, incidence or progression of hip OA (based on different radiographic and clinical criteria) in the MEDLINE, EMBASE, Web of Science, Scopus, Cochrane Library and PEDro databases from inception until June 2020. Prospective and cross-sectional studies were separately evaluated. Data are presented as odds ratios (OR) with 95% confidence intervals (CI).

We included 9 prospective and 21 cross-sectional studies in the meta-analysis, and evaluated 42,831 hips from 25,898 individuals (mean age 59 years). Prospective studies showed that, compared with control hips, hips with cam morphology (alpha angle >60°; OR=2.52, 95% CI 1.83 to 3.46, P<0.001) or hip dysplasia (lateral center-edge angle (LCEA) <25°; OR=2.38, 95% CI 1.84 to 3.07, P<0.001), but not hips with pincer morphology (LCEA >39°; OR=1.08, 95% CI 0.57 to 2.07, P=0.810), were more likely to develop hip OA than hips without these morphologies. Cross-sectional studies showed a greater prevalence of pincer morphology (LCEA >39°, OR=3.71, 95% CI 2.98 to 4.61, P<0.001) and acetabular retroversion (crossover sign; OR=2.65, 95% CI 1.17 to 6.03, P=0.020) in hips with OA than in control hips.

Cam morphology and hip dysplasia were consistently associated with the development of hip OA. Pincer morphology was associated with hip OA in cross-sectional but not in prospective studies. The heterogeneous quantification of pincer morphology on radiographs limits a clear conclusion on its association with hip OA.
Cam morphology and hip dysplasia were consistently associated with the development of hip OA. Pincer morphology was associated with hip OA in cross-sectional but not in prospective studies. The heterogeneous quantification of pincer morphology on radiographs limits a clear conclusion on its association with hip OA.We report a rare case of necrotizing fasciitis of the abdominal wall caused by Hungatella effluvii and Streptococcus constellatus. Necrotizing fasciitis has high mortality, so early diagnosis and aggressive treatment are essential for good clinical outcome. Identification of the microbial contribution to these infections is crucial for targeted antibiotic treatment.
To date, population-based studies reporting associations between dry eye disease and medications were hypothesis-driven, did not take into account underlying comorbidities, and did not investigate individual drugs. The purpose of this study was to clarify the association of dry eye symptoms with medication classes and individual drugs, using a hypothesis-free approach.

79,606 participants (age 20-97 years, 59.2% female) from the population-based Lifelines cohort in the Netherlands were cross-sectionally assessed for dry eye symptoms using the Womens' Health Study dry eye questionnaire. All medications used were coded with the ATC classification system. Selleck SMAP activator Logistic regression was used to assess the risk of the 59 most-used therapeutic/pharmacological subgroups and the 99 most-used individual drugs (all n>200) on dry eye symptoms, correcting for age, sex, body mass index, and 48 comorbidities associated with dry eye.

Thirty-eight (64%) medication subgroups and fifty-two (53%) individual drugs were associated with dry eye symptoms (P<0.
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