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Thursday 28 August 2008

Defining Early Morbidity Of Radical Cystectomy For Patients With Bladder Cancer Using Standardized Reporting Methodology

�UroToday.com - This clause, recently published in the online military issue of European Urology, highly-developed standard reportage methodology to define the type, relative incidence, and rigorousness of early postoperative morbidities following free radical cystectomy.

Between 1995 and 2005, 1142 consecutive chemical group cystectomy patients were entered into a prospective tortuousness database and retrospectively reviewed for accuracy. All patients underwent RC/urinary diversion by high-volume fellowship-trained urologic oncologists. Complications were measured within the first 90 days of surgery Complications were defined and stratified into 11 specific categories. Using these categories, 64% of patients experienced a complication. Among patients experiencing a complication, 67% experienced a complication during the operative hospital admission and 58% following discharge. Eighty-seven pct of complications were level 1 or 2 and did non require surgical intervention. Gastrointestinal complications were most vulgar (29%), followed by infectious complications (25%) and wound-related complications (15%). The 30-day mortality rate was 1.5%.

These authors hold helped delineate a reproducible complication marking system that will admit comparison across institutions. Surgical morbidity following radical cystectomy is significant and, when strict reportage guidelines ar incorporated, higher than antecedently published. Accurate reporting of postoperative complications after RC is essential for counsel patients, combined modality discourse planning, clinical trial innovation, and assessment of operative success.

Shabsigh A, Kurtas R, Vora KC, Brook CM, Cronin AM, Savage C, Raj G, Bochner BH, Dalbagni G, Herr HW, Donat SM

Eur Urol. 2008 Jul 18. Epub ahead of print.

Reported by UroToday.com Contributing Editor David P. Wood, MD

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Monday 18 August 2008

Britney Spears garners third MTV award nomination

LOS ANGELES () - A year after her calamitous replication performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, Britney Spears has garnered a third nomination for this year's evince, but it remained unclear whether she would defy a repeat appearance.

MTV, which has been rolling proscribed nominations for various categories in recent weeks, named Spears on Friday as one of five candidates in the running for its sought after Video of the Year award, for the magazine to her single "Piece of Me."

The like title already has earned her nominations for charles Herbert Best female picture and charles Herbert Best pop picture.

In the category for Video of the Year, she is competing against the Jonas Brothers' "Burnin Up," Chris Brown's "Forever," Pussycat Dolls "When I Grow Up" and the Ting Tings' "Shut Up and Let Me Go."

The nominees for best rock candy video, too named on Friday, are Paramore for "CrushCrushCrush," Slipknot's "Psychosocial," Linkin Park's "Shadow of the Day," Foo Fighters' "The Pretender" and Fall Out Boy's cover of the Michael Jackson hit "Beat It."

But Spears' nominations remain especially tantalizing because of mounting speculation almost whether she will read a chance at returning to the MTV Video Music Awards with memories still fresh from her much-derided appearance last year.

Spears herself added to the hype by recently filming a series of promotional spots for the approaching awards testify with a real-life, 9,000-pound elephant literally in the room with her.

Coming off two marriages, 2 children and two stints in rehab, Spears sought to launch a career comeback on last year's show with a performance of the song "Gimme More" that proved a publicity bomb for Spears but a ratings blessing for MTV.�

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