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How successful is the transition to adult urology care in spina bifida?
1 May 2017
| Henrik Steinbrecher
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Paediatric Urology
These authors from Indianapolis, USA, aimed to assess rates and predictors of successful transition into adult care of spina bifida patients. They did this by a retrospective review of 77 patients discharged from a multidisciplinary paediatric clinic at a mean...
Comparative effectiveness of nephron sparing surgery vs ablation
1 May 2014
| Ayman Younis
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Nephron sparing surgery (NSS) and minimally invasive modality of thermal ablation have attracted great attention as an alternative surgical treatment to radical nephrectomy (RN) for renal tumours <4cm. High quality evidence comparing disease specific survival (DSS) is lacking. This issue...
Medical expulsive therapy for paediatric urolithiasis
Children who have kidney stones are likely to have recurrences. Many initial stones are treated conservatively allowing for spontaneous passage of small stones if possible. Doxazocin or tamsulosin are known to dilate the ureter and allow spontaneous passage of stones...TURP
1 March 2015
| Jonathan Charles Goddard
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URO - Technology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last article I told...
Initial impressions of urology in the UK from overseas trainees
3 September 2021
| Krishnendu Biswas, Hani Sayedin, Ahmad Khalifa, Gerald Rix, Stephen R Keoghane
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URO - Core Urology
Readers of Urology News will be familiar with descriptions of overseas visits by UK-based urological trainees, but it is sometimes beneficial to reflect on the experience of international medical graduates (IMGs) who elect to come to work and train in...
Stenting prior to URS or ESWL – does it increase ED visits and opiate prescriptions?
11 July 2023
| Neil Featherstone
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URO - Paediatric Urology
Ureteral stents are used to bypass obstructive stones, to dilate the ureter in order to facilitate ureteroscopy (URS), and to maintain patency / low intrarenal pressure following stone surgery. However, there can be morbidity (pain / voiding symptoms). Tasian et...
Transfer to tertiary paediatric hospitals for patients with testicular torsion
1 November 2017
| Henrik Steinbrecher
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URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Although this articles comes from a tertiary centre in Columbus, USA, there are similarities with the current controversies in the UK. The authors carried out a five-year retrospective review looking at the surgical transfer of 125 patients (mean age 13.4,...
Age does not impact risk for urethroplasty complications after TIP repair of hypospadias
1 March 2014
| Henrik Steinbrecher
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URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
This paper is evidence of an increasing trend (especially in the USA) to lower the age at which hypospadias repair is undertaken. The current generalised best accepted age to repair hypospadias is between 6-18 months, which was reduced in the...
A short history of nephrectomy
1 November 2016
| Jonathan Charles Goddard, Theodore Birks
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URO - Technology, URO - Urologic Oncology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last article I promised to tell you about removing kidneys, by...
Bike4TUF goes local to raise vital funds and support patients
7 October 2020
| Ben Eddy
There was no stopping urologists from raising vital funds for charity as they cycled more than 2000 miles to support The Urology Foundation (TUF). The annual Bike4TUF event saw 24 participants cycle in teams of six across Manchester, Canterbury, London,...
The management of renal calculi – Pt 2
1 May 2018
| Daron Smith, Vimoshan Arumuham
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Renal calculi can be managed according to four treatment options: conservative management, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Having addressed conservative management and ESWL in the last edition of Urology News, the second article...
Endoscopic management of upper tract urothelial carcinoma
1 January 2014
| Miles Goldstraw, Eleanor Ray, Susie Longhorn, Timothy Philp, Simon Choong, Daron Smith
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URO - Urologic Oncology
Upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a rare disease accounting for 5-10% of all urothelial carcinomas and has an annual incidence in Western countries of 1-2 per 100,000 [1,2]. It occurs more commonly in the pelvicalyceal system as opposed to...
