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Purpose To validate the Quality of Erection Questionnaire (QEQ) considering Brazilian social-cultural aspects. Materials and Methods To determine equivalence between the Portuguese and the English QEQ versions, the Portuguese version was back-translated by two professors who are native English speakers. After language equivalence had been determined, urologists considered the QEQ Portuguese version suitable. Men with self-reported erectile dysfunction (ED) and infertile men who had a stable sexual relationship for at least 6 months were invited to answer the QEQ, the International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and the RAND 36-Item Health Survey (RAND-36). The questionnaires were presented together and answered without help in a private room. Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α), test-retest reliability (Spearman), convergent validity (Spearman correlation) coefficients and known-groups validity (the ability of the QEQ Portuguese version to differentiate erectile dysfunction severity groups) were assessed. Results We recruited 197 men (167 ED patients and 30 non-ED patients), mean age of 53.3 and median of 55.5 years (23-82 years). The Portuguese version of the QEQ had high internal consistency (Cronbach α=0.93), high stability between test and retest (ICC 0.83, with IC 95%: 0.76-0.88, p<0.001) and Spearman correlation coefficient r=0.82 (p<0.001), which demonstrated the high correlation between the QEQ and IIEF results. The correlations between the QEQ and RAND-36 were significantly low in ED (r=0.20, p=0.01) and non-ED patients (r=0.37, p=0.04). Conclusion The QEQ Portuguese version presented good psychometric properties and high convergent validity in relation to IIEF. The low correlations between the QEQ and the RAND-36, as well as between the IIEF and the RAND-36 indicated IIEF and QEQ specificity, which may have resulted from the patients’ psychological adaptations that minimized the impact of ED on ...
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Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Young Adult , Erectile Dysfunction/diagnosis , Penile Erection , Quality of Life , Surveys and Questionnaires/standards , Brazil , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Language , Personal Satisfaction , Psychometrics/methods , Reproducibility of Results , Severity of Illness Index , Statistics, Nonparametric , TranslationsABSTRACT
Os autores apresentam um caso de linfoma maligno de testículo. Fazem também uma revisäo de literatura e discutem o caso
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Humans , Male , Adult , Cyclophosphamide/therapeutic use , Doxorubicin/therapeutic use , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/diagnosis , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/drug therapy , Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin/therapy , Orchiectomy , Testicular Neoplasms/diagnosis , Testicular Neoplasms/drug therapy , Testicular Neoplasms/therapy , Anti-Infective Agents/therapeutic use , Antidotes/therapeutic use , Antineoplastic Agents/therapeutic use , Bleomycin/therapeutic use , Central Nervous System Neoplasms/radiotherapy , Cytarabine/therapeutic use , Etoposide/therapeutic use , Leucovorin/therapeutic use , Methotrexate/therapeutic use , Prednisone/therapeutic use , Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination/therapeutic use , Vincristine/therapeutic useABSTRACT
A estenose da junçao uretero-pielica (JUP) e uma das causas mais frequentes de hidronefrose em crianças, sendo responsavel por 25 por cento dos tumores abdominais nos recem-nascidos. O presente estudo compara o tratamento da estenose de JUP pela pieloplastia aberta, tecnica de Anderson-Hynes, e a endopielotomia percutanea. Treze pacientes foram submetidos a pieloplastia aberta, com idade variando de 5 meses a 5 anos, com media de 2 anos e 6 meses. Nove pacientes foram submetidos a endopielotomia percutanea, totalizando dez procedimentos. A idade destes pacientes variou de 2 meses a 16 anos, com media de 6 anos. No grupo de pacientes submetidos a pieloplastia houve melhora clinica em 10 pacientes (76,5 por cento), verificada por ausencia de dor, ganho de peso, normalizaçao do crescimento e ausencia de infecçao urinaria ou febre. A melhora radiologica foi observada em 8 pacientes (61,5 por cento). No grupo submetido a endopielotomia percutanea observou-se melhora clinica e radiologica em 83,4 por cento dos pacientes com estenose da junçao uretero-pielica de causa primaria e melhora clinica e radiologica de 100 por cento e 50 por cento, respectivamente, nos pacientes com estenose de causa secundaria. Houve um caso de recidiva da estenose em cada grupo. Com base nos resultados obtidos, conclui-se que ambos os metodos apresentam eficacia no tratamento da estenose de JUP e acompanham-se de baixa morbidade