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A tale of two cities – hypospadias outcomes

2 February 2022 | Neil Featherstone | Functional Urology | hypospadias, treatment outcome, urologic surgical procedures, male

As urologists, it is important to know our results. In terms of hypospadias surgery, which is commonly undertaken after the age of one year in the UK, long-term follow-up is required to fully acquire this knowledge. Long-term urinary outcomes and...

iMEDicare Pelvic Health Naturally accomplish fundraising challenge that may be unique in history!

26 October 2022 | Awards, Conferences & Anniversaries

Over four long, gruelling days at the end of August, Darren Breen and Elliot Stackhouse of iMEDicare completed the 4 Peaks Ridge Route Challenge, in support of Bladder Health UK.

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Long-term complications of bulking agents in the treatment of SUI

4 July 2024 | Asif H Ansari | Functional Urology, Infection

Incontinence poses a substantial economic burden on the UK’s NHS, estimated at £536 million in 1999/2000, equivalent to approximately 1.1% of the total NHS spend, for both men and women. Over two decades later, this cost is expected to have...

Immunotherapy in renal cancer

1 May 2019 | Conor McCann, Edward Mains, Alexander Laird | Basic Science Research, Urologic Oncology

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the sixth most common solid organ cancer in the UK. In 2018, there were 403,262 people diagnosed worldwide with the disease (2.2% of all cancer cases), and it accounted for 175,098 deaths in total (1.8%...

Ambulatory local anaesthetic implantation of percutaneous sacral nerve stimulators

11 July 2023 | Sami Hamid, Saddaf Hina, Ammar Alhasso, Paraskeve Granitsiotis | Functional Urology

Background The current treatment paradigm for detrusor overactivity (DO) and dysfunctional voiding (DV) includes conservative measures, pharmacotherapy, intravesical onabotulinum toxin A (Botox®), sacral nerve modulation (SNM / SNS) and urinary diversion as a last resort [1]. Incidence of DO is...

‘The Rise of a Specialty’ – Exhibition at the Royal Society of Medicine

4 May 2020 | Robert Greenwood, Jonathan Charles Goddard | Technological Developments

The founding of the Royal Society of Medicine’s (RSM) Urology Section 100 years ago this year was crucial to the establishment of urology as a specialty in Great Britain in its own right. To mark this anniversary, earlier this year...

What is the role of evidence-based medicine in urology?

1 March 2016 | Cameron E Alexander, Philipp Dahm, Muhammad Imran Omar | Basic Science Research

The concept of ‘evidence-based medicine’ (EBM) was first developed in the early 1990s and was described as “the conscientious, explicit and judicious use of the current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients” by the recently...

Emphysematous pyelonephritis: a review

1 May 2014 | Sally J Deverill, Luke Hanna, Stephen R Keoghane | Endourology and Stones, Infection

Introduction Emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) is an acute, severe, necrotising, bacterial infection of the renal parenchyma and surrounding tissues, with gas in the renal parenchyma, collecting system or perinephric tissue. Although it is rare, it is potentially life threatening and early...

Giggle incontinence – not a laughing matter!

4 May 2023 | Alex Turner | Functional Urology

For many decades, the condition of giggle incontinence (enuresis risoria, giggle micturition) has remained a rare and poorly understood condition. Patients (90% female) present in their teens, with the history revealing an issue for many years. It is debilitating and...

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