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Discovering urology during the foundation programme
6 November 2024
| Melanie Sneddon
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URO - Core Urology
My journey to finding urology as a chosen career was not linear. During medical school, I always enjoyed studying urological and renal pathologies. I was exposed to one week of urology placement during my fourth year ‘surgical block’, where I...
Who was Zoon?
1 January 2016
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URO - Infection, URO - Technology
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). Eponyms are frowned upon in modern medical teaching but, as a medical historian,...
The value of Urolink: an OOPE experience
1 May 2019
| Dominic Teichmann
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URO - Core Urology
I was fortunate enough to be able to take some time out of my training after ST5 to pursue an Out Of Programme Experience (OOPE) year. During the Urolink meeting at the British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) 2017 conference...
The aero-urethroscope
1 March 2017
| Pravisha Ravindra, Jonathan Charles Goddard
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URO - Technology
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 said I would write about another old urological...
Intelligent triage: improving outpatient efficiency
13 March 2023
| Robin Shepherd, Ian Beckley, Anthony Browning, Alison Downey, Rebecca Phillips, Matthew Young, Stephanie Symons
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URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Core Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Background Improving outpatient (OP) efficiency and service structure is of paramount importance as the NHS seeks to manage ever increasing demand in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. As we re-establish services and attempt to clear the backlog, new ways...
We are CPT accredited! C&G Medicare launching Pelvic Angel Training!
2 September 2020
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Research & Development
Pelvic health is essential for everyone to be able to live a good quality of life, without incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and other complications deriving from poor pelvic floor stability.
Urinary Stones – Medical and Surgical Management
1 March 2015
| Tim Lane
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URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency
This book is nicely adapted to cover both the medical and surgical management of urinary stone disease. Those chapters dealing with the surgical management of stone disease are dealt with unsurprisingly well – delivered with a relaxed and conversational prose...
Renal fossa recurrence after nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma
This paper is an analysis of 36 years of radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma in the Mayo Clinic (1970-2006). In particular, it contains an analysis of the risk of renal fossa recurrence after nephrectomy (partial nephrectomies are not included)...
Understanding gender differences in nephrolithiasis
1 January 2017
| Hamid Abboudi
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URO - Endourology & Stones
Rates of nephrolithiasis are higher in males than females. The cause for this remains unclear, however animal models have demonstrated an association between sex steroid hormone levels and lithogenesis. This relationship in humans is less well established. This study from...
Tolerability and persistence in women prescribed mirabegron
1 November 2016
| Ann Crump
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URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Mirabegron is a beta-3 agonist used in the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB). Trials have shown reduced side-effects but equal efficacy when compared to anticholinergics. The authors wished to examine patients’ persistence with treatment, in a non-trial setting, over a...
LUTS among Caucasian-European men who have sex with men: findings from a real-life survey
1 March 2016
| Pravisha Ravindra
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URO - Endourology & Stones
This study is the first of its kind to report an association between men who have sex with men (MSM) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). Nine hundred and forty-nine consecutive individuals who presented to a uro-andrology clinic for complaints...
Practising surgery in a war zone: an interview with Dr Volodymyr Melnyk
8 December 2022
| Peter Cackett
It is now nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, with Putin announcing a “special military operation” to “denazify and demilitarise” Ukraine. The rest of the world, however, saw it for what it...
