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Artificial penile pearls: what every Urologist should know!
1 July 2019
| Joachim Jimie, Margaret Lyttle
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URO - Andrology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Penile implants are inert objects placed beneath the skin of the penis through an incision. These are variously referred to as Yakuza beads, pearls, ball bearings, speed bumps, penile marbles, inserts, etc. The term ‘penile implant’ described here should not...
BCG after TURBT – does timing matter?
2 March 2022
| Karthik Rajan
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Intravesical bacille Calmette–Guerin (BCG) therapy continues to be widely used for patients with intermediate / high-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). In this article, the researchers identified the lack of sufficient evidence with regards to timing of BCG after transurethral...
Comparison of PCNL under spinal versus general anaesthesia
1 May 2014
| Adam Alleemudder
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URO - Endourology & Stones
There are several advantages of performing percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) under spinal anaesthesia including lower cost, reduced adverse effects and less tracheal tube displacement. Another advantage is that the patient remains awake throughout making positioning easier and reducing the risk of...
Hard flaccid syndrome
1 November 2018
| Kaylie E Hughes, Arie Parnham, Marc A Lucky
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URO - Andrology
Chronic pelvic pain is defined as pain present below the level of the umbilicus with a duration of more than six months [1,2]. Chronic pelvic pain syndromes (CPPS) are highly prevalent in Western society, affecting both males and females. Studies...
Erectile dysfunction part II: treatment
1 May 2014
| Asif Muneer, Jas Kalsi, David J Ralph
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URO - Andrology
Introduction The identification of specific risk factors associated with erectile dysfunction (ED) allows patients with mild or moderate ED to undergo a series of lifestyle changes, which may provide enough improvement in the erectile function to avoid pharmacotherapies. Cessation of...
Visual-estimation (cognitive), image-fusion (software) and in-bore targeted prostate biopsy: is there an optimal approach?
3 March 2021
| Christopher C Khoo, Martin J Connor, Hashim U Ahmed (Prof)
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URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Technology
The diagnostic superiority of multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) prior to targeted and systematic prostate biopsy over systematic transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) biopsy alone in the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (csPCa) has been proven by multiple level 1 studies...
Prostate cancer detection rate of MRI-TRUS fusion vs. systematic biopsy
1 May 2018
| Pravisha Ravindra
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URO - Urologic Oncology
With the advent of one-stop prostate cancer diagnostic clinics, the findings of this study are of interest to readers who may be considering introducing the technique of magnetic resonance imaging transrectal ultrasound (MRI-TRUS) fusion biopsies to their practice. A retrospective...
Sepsis syndrome in urology
1 November 2015
| Christian Nayar, Aniket Deshpande, Richard Porter
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URO - Infection
There are approximately 100,000 cases of sepsis per year in the UK, of which 37,000 result in death (this is more than prostate cancer, breast cancer, HIV / AIDS and road traffic accidents combined). Urosepsis is defined as sepsis caused...
Evaluation of the learning curve for learning MRI-US fusion prostate biopsies
7 July 2020
| Mithun Kailavasan
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URO - Core Urology
With the advent of one-stop prostate cancer diagnostic clinics, the findings of this study are of interest to readers who may be implementing MRI-US transrectal or transperineal fusion biopsies to their clinical practice. This prospective cohort study evaluated 779 consecutive...
Sperm selection techniques in assisted reproductive technologies: state of the ART?
4 May 2023
| Muhammad-Kabir Ali, Christopher C Khoo, Suks Minhas
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URO - Andrology, URO - Technology
Infertility is the inability to achieve pregnancy following one year of regular, unprotected intercourse (in the fertile phase of the menstrual cycle). Infertility is a common problem that affects between 7 and 15% of couples worldwide, with male factor infertility...
A sigma six approach to improving nephrostomy and antegrade stent services at a district general hospital – an audit project
12 September 2023
| Mayur Gami, Michelle Carey, Felicity Reeves
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URO - Trauma & Emergency
As hospitals merge into larger trusts there becomes a centralisation of some services. Interventional radiology (IR) has been one of those services. Our district general hospital runs bi-weekly lR lists following service centralisation. Urology and IR most commonly liaise on...
