Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Face Validation of the Chilean Version of the Operated Male to Female Sexual Function Index.

INTRODUCTION AND HYPOTHESIS: Transgender and gender-diverse people often experience discrimination or even outright exclusion when undergoing medical attention. It has been shown that gender-affirming treatments improve quality of life in transgender patients, and genital-affirming surgery (GAS) is increasingly spreading worldwide. Sexual function after male-to-female GAS has long been evaluated by using tools designed for assigned female at birth (AFAB), resulting in suboptimal assessments. Currently, the operated Male to Female Sexual Function Index (oMtFSFI) is the only validated questionnaire to assess the sexual function of operated transgender women. The current study was aimed at performing cross-cultural adaptation and to test the face validity of the Chilean version of the oMtFSFI. METHODS: We carried out an observational descriptive study. The questionnaire was translated into Spanish, adapted, and face validated in five phases with eight participants. The study was approved by the Universidad del Desarrollo Scientific Ethics Committee. RESULTS: According to participants, the questionnaire was shown to both pertinently and exhaustively evaluate the sexual function of post-feminizing genitoplasty transgender women. The questionnaire was well understood by the participants, except for a difficulty in understanding certain terms. Some participants criticized the perspective of the instrument in terms of the assumption of having a partner or having penetrative intercourse via the neovagina. The amendments to the Italian version of the questionnaire were discussed until an agreement on adaptation considering the patient´s perspective was reached. The present preliminary data support the face validity of the Chilean version of the oMtFSFI in the assessment of sexual function in operated transgender women. CONCLUSIONS: This adapted questionnaire could be a valuable tool for clinicians and researchers.

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Through an Organizational Behaviour Lens.

Vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic has been a worldwide public health challenge. Organizational behaviour, the study of people's behaviours in organizational settings, can be used to identify the behavioural drivers contributing to vaccine hesitancy and to develop targeted strategies to combat those drivers and improve vaccine uptake. Some common behaviours driving vaccine hesitancy arise from individualism, motivation, attitude, perception, groupthink, heuristics and cognitive bias. Organizational behaviour strategies to combat vaccine hesitancy include fostering a collectivist attitude, overcoming personal barriers to communication such as individual beliefs and values, utilizing motivation theories to target the individualistic mindset, and overcoming attitudes and perceptions by addressing heuristics and cognitive biases.

[Renal angiomyolipoma rupture as a cause of lumbar pain: report of one case]. / Angiomiolipoma renal complicado como causa de dolor lumbar: Caso clínico.

Renal angiomyolipoma is a benign tumor formed by smooth muscle, adipose tissue and blood vessels. It is commonly found incidentally and its clinical manifestations are pain and abdominal mass or spontaneous tumor rupture with retroperitoneal bleeding. The clinical presentation of a hemorrhagic shock secondary to a retroperitoneal hematoma is uncommon. We report a 40 year-old male who presented to the emergency room with lumbar pain and deterioration of hemodynamic parameters. The CT scan showed a left renal injury associated to an expansive retroperitoneal process. The abdominal exploration, vascular control of the renal pedicle and nephrectomy allowed a successful outcome.

Angiomiolipoma renal complicado como causa de dolor lumbar: caso clínico / Renal angiomyolipoma rupture as a cause of lumbar pain: report of one case

Renal angiomyolipoma is a benign tumor formed by smooth muscle, adipose tissue and blood vessels. It is commonly found incidentally and its clinical manifestations are pain and abdominal mass or spontaneous tumor rupture with retroperitoneal bleeding. The clinical presentation of a hemorrhagic shock secondary to a retroperítoneal hematoma is uncommon. We report a 40 year-old male who presented to the emergency room with lumbar pain and deteríoration of hemodynamic parameters. The CT sean showed a left renal injury associated to an expansive retroperítoneal process. The abdominal exploration, vascular control of the renal pedicle and nephrectomy allowed a successful outcome.

Uso de malla de polipropileno subalbugínea en orquiectomía bilateral por cáncer de próstata / Use of a testicular intralbugineal polypropylene mesh in bilateral orchiectomy for prostate cancer

Se presenta la experiencia del Servicio de Urología del Hospital Carlos Van Büren en el uso de malla de polipropileno intralbugínea como prótesis testicular, contemporánea a la orquiectomía subalbugínea bilateral por cáncer de próstata. Nuestra serie es de 30 pacientes, con un total de 60 testículos, correspondientes al período comprendido entre noviembre de 2001 y septiembre de 2002. Los resultados iniciales son alentadores.