J.H. Bae

The effects of using a heating pad on reduction of anxiety, pain and distress during a cystoscopy in the female patients

 A prospective randomized study.  Between January 2017 and August 2017  74 female patients who underwent rigid cystoscopy.  Randomized to either the heating pad (n= 37) or control (n=37) group.  In experimental group a heating pad was applied on the female patient’s sacrum during cystoscopy.  After cystoscopy, all subjects completed the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-S (STAI-S, 20-80) form and assessed their degree of pain, distress by the visual analog scale (VAS, 0–10).

562 The value of plasma osteopontin levels as a predictive factor of disease stage and recurrence in patients with bladder urothelial carcinoma: A prospective study

This study was performed in order to determine the value of plasma osteopontin (OPN) levels as a predictive factor of disease stage and recurrence in patients with bladder ur- othelial carcinoma (UC). Data from 50 patients diagnosed to have bladder UC after transurethral resection ofbladder tumor (TURBT) from 2009to 2010were evaluated prospectively.Blood tests were performed before and after TURBT, and plasma OPN levels were measured using enzyme- linked immunosorbent assay. Differences in OPN levels according to clinicopathologic variables were analyzed statistically. Significant differences in plasma OPN levels were observed between groups with and without muscle invasion (89.16 vs. 67.08 ng/mL, p Z 0.041). Comparison ac- cording to tumor grade found no significant difference between high and low grade groups (p Z 0.115). Mean plasma OPN levels decreased after TURBT without statistical significance (p Z 0.571). Between groups with recurrence and those without recurrence, OPN levels of the group with recurrence were higher without statistical significance (p Z 0.161). Comparison of plasma OPN levels according to performance of radical cystectomy (RC) showed significant differences; patients who underwent RC showed higher levels of plasma OPN (95.58 vs. 70.37 ng/mL, p Z 0.030). Comparison according to T stage after RC showed significant differ- ences in OPN levels (T1: 67.45, T2: 86.60 and T3: 95.23 ng/mL, respectively, p Z 0.006). The groupwithlymphnodeinvasionshowedsignificantlyhigherlevelsofOPN,comparedtothegroup