Journal of the Chinese Medical Association : JCMA
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Pregnancy and childbirth are frequently associated with overactive bladder syndrome (OAB). However, the role of parous effects in OAB among nulliparous (NP) women remains controversial. ⋯ We hypothesized that hypertonicity or poor relaxation of the pelvic muscle in NP women may cause functional BOO, which is related to their OAB.
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Guyon's canal syndrome is nerve compressive pathology which can lead to sensory and/or motor function deficits. This problem is usually difficult to distinguish from cubital tunnel syndrome and relatively less common than cubital tunnel syndrome. This study evaluated the functional results and patient-reported outcomes following decompression of the ulnar nerve in Guyon's canal. ⋯ It was concluded that promising functional outcomes after surgical release of ulnar neuropathy in Guyon's canal could be achieved if the patients did not need additional neurolysis or the symptom duration was within 3 months.
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The prevalence of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is increasing over time worldwide, with similar trends to those of diabetes and obesity. A liver biopsy, the gold standard of diagnosis, is not favored due to its invasiveness. Meanwhile, noninvasive evaluation methods of fatty liver are still either very expensive or demonstrate poor diagnostic performances, thus, limiting their applications. We developed neural network-based models to assess fatty liver and classify the severity using B-mode ultrasound (US) images. ⋯ Our deep learning models achieved comparable predictive performances to the most accurate, yet expensive, noninvasive diagnostic methods for fatty liver. Because of the discriminative ability, including for mild steatosis, significant impacts on clinical applications for fatty liver are expected. However, we need to overcome machine-dependent variation, motion artifacts, lacking of second confirmation from any other tools, and hospital-dependent regional bias.