Can preoperative psychological defensive strategies, mood and type of lower urinary tract reconstruction predict psychosocial adjustment after cystectomy in patients with bladder cancer?
The combination of defensive strategies assessed using the MCT and selected on hypothetical grounds was less discriminatory than expected for those at risk of postoperative psychosocial problems. However, those with primitive strategies apparently had a long-term risk of poor adaptation. The search for an optimal instrument for the identification of patients at risk is warranted. In this study, patients with a 'wet' stoma did not seem to fare less well than those with a continent reconstruction.
This study provides evidence that VTCN1, encoding B7-H4, is associated with course of disease in selected subtypes of JIA. VTCN1 might be useful in predicting the course of disease.