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Polyps in continent catheterisable bladder channels

1 January 2014 | | Paediatric Urology, Reconstructive Urology
This paper retrospectively looks at all the continent catheterisable channels performed in one centre over 16 years that were all on a surveillance programme of annual endoscopic assessment beginning five years post surgery. All channels had been formed with sutures...

Serum cholesterol and risk of high-grade prostate cancer: results from the REDUCE study

1 March 2019 | | Basic Science Research, Urologic Oncology
This study examined a cohort of non-statin using patients who participated in the REDUCE study. The REDUCE study included men who had an elevated prostate specific antigen (PSA) and a negative baseline prostate biopsy who then underwent year two and...

Developing and validating a new nomogram for diagnosing BOO in women

5 November 2019 | | Neurourology | LUTS, SG nomogram, bladder outlet obstruction, urodynamics, voiding dysfunction
Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in women is thought to be present in between 2.7% and 27%. Causes of BOO in women may be anatomical or functional. Yet, unlike the diagnosis in men, there is no standard definition for BOO in...
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Prostate cancer and an electronic nose

7 January 2020 | | Urologic Oncology
So far the transrectal ultrasound guided (TRUS) biopsy has been the ‘gold standard’ for diagnosing prostate cancer. However, it is invasive and can lead to complications, so there is a need for new non-invasive diagnostic tools to avoid unnecessary biopsy...
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Time for tea

5 January 2022 | | Endourology and Stones | Black tea, Caffeine, Coffee, Green tea, Kidney stone, Nephrolithiasis, Risk, Tea, Theophylline, Urinary stones
Kidney stone disease can be related to genetic, biochemical, and dietary factors. Much has been said about the link between tea and coffee consumption and risks of urinary stone formation. This is a systematic review using the PRISM statement with...
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Standard versus expanded cultures to diagnose UTIs in women

5 January 2022 | | Functional Urology, Infection | anti-bacterial agents, enhanced urine cultures, microbiota, urinary tract infections
Clinicians are well aware of the limitations of the so-called Kass criteria applied to standard urine culture (SUC) techniques as well as the limitations of empiric antibiotic prescribing for symptoms that are known to overlap with chronic conditions such as...
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Keep an eye on Viagra™

3 February 2023 | | Andrology
Many of the side-effects and contra-indications of sildenafil and other phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE 5) inhibitors for erectile dysfunction have become well known to doctors and pharmacists over the years. This study from the United States collected case reports of adverse...

Advanced Twitter

1 November 2016 | | Technological Developments
It has been a few years since my post on ‘Twitter for urologists’ was published in Urology News [1]. Given the continued rise of the platform, I thought it was time to revisit and expand on Twitter’s functionality. In this...

The aero-urethroscope

1 March 2017 | | Technological Developments
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...

Management of calyceal diverticular stones using ultramini PCNL

1 January 2017 | | Endourology and Stones
Calyceal diverticulae are congenital smooth-walled, non-secretory urothelium-lined cavities within the renal parenchyma that communicate with calyceal fornix through a diverticular neck. They were first described by Rayer in Traitements des maladies des reins [1]. Calculi occur in approximately 9.5% to...

History of prostate biopsy – part 2

1 September 2018 | | Basic Science Research, Technological Developments, Urologic Oncology
For Part 1 of this topic is available here. The major limitations of the transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) guided prostate biopsy (PBx) protocols are the risk of profound sepsis and the risk of persistently significant false negative rates, related to the...

A guided guide to the guide wire

6 May 2020 | | Endourology and Stones, Technological Developments
The use of guide wires has become a core skill utilised by urologists, especially within the field of endourology. The authors take us through the development of the guide wire and their current use in urology. The history The first...