Biomedical subjects

H Tümmers

Publications and source records attributed to H Tümmers.

12 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed1983

[One-time therapy of acute cystitis in women. Comparison between gentamycin and amoxicillin].

In a randomized trial 65 women with symptoms of acute cystitis and significant bacteruria were treated with 120 mg gentamycin intramuscularly or 3 g amoxicillin orally. The patients were selected by excluding those with recurrent infection and involvement of the upper urinary tract (by history and clinical examination). The urine was sterile in 53 patients (82%) after a one-week treatment-free interval. The results indicate that there was no statistically significant difference between the two treatment groups. Further diagnostic tests revealed an underlying urological disease in five of the 12 remaining patients.

Acute Disease↗

PubMed1979

[Socialpsychological aspects of sexuality in old age (author's transl)].

In contrast to other existing studies, which mostly discuss the physical changes of human sexuality during age, this socialpsychological survey analyzes the existence and relevance of negative attitudes towards sexuality in old age and their relations to the sexual activity of older people. Though - according to the results of medicinal surveys - there is no biological limit for a satisfactory sexuality during old age, after personal interviews with 500 random sampled people the hypothesis was confirmed, that older people are often thought to be asexual. Especially older women, who in most cases have no more sexual relations, often believed sexuality in age to be inappropriate, indecent, perverse or even sinful. More than that it could be shown, that sexual inactivity of older people cannot be explained by detoriation of old age only - like illness or loss of partner -, but that the normative evaluation of sexuality is probably an important determinant also.

Aged↗

PubMed1977

[Value of cryogenic surgery in the therapeutic plan for prostatic adenoma].

The methodical and instrumental development in urology has led to the fact that nowadays only in 25% of the patients with prostatic adenoma an "open" adenomectoy of the prostate is performed. The cryosurgery is exclusively reserved to high risk patients who at present, however, increasingly also undergo a transurethral resection. The advantages of the transurethral electroresection compared with the cryosurgery of the prostatic adenoma are discussed and confirmed with the help of the own cases. Advanced cerebral sclerosis means contraindication for every operative procedure in adenoma. Nowadays in the high risk patient a transurethral resection should be performed by the best and most experienced urologist.

Abscess↗

PubMed1975