Jun 05, 2023

To develop a tool to predict a woman's treatment pattern for bothersome urinary urgency (UU) and/or UU incontinence over 1 year after presenting for care at urology or urogynecology clinics.The Sympto...

Jun 05, 2023

Metapanax delavayi (Franch.) J.Wen & Frodin (Araliaceae), known as "liang wang cha" in China, has been used to treat prostatitis as herbal tea in folk. Recent research suggested that aqueous extra...

May 29, 2023

To evaluate the learning curve of the "Double Grooves-Double Rings" (DGDR) technique of transurethral Thulium laser enucleation of the prostate (ThuLEP) for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) by a si...

May 22, 2023

Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is widely used to diagnose early prostate cancer (PCa). Its low sensitivity, especially in the gray zone, usually incurs overtreatment or missed diagnosis. As an e...

May 22, 2023

Functional pelvic floor disorders (PFD) such as bowel and bladder dysfunctions can be challenging to manage with our current therapeutic modalities. Recently, noninvasive brain stimulation has emerged...

May 15, 2023

Finasteride competitively inhibits 5α-reductase (5-AR) isoenzymes, which blocks dihydrotestosterone (DHT) production, thereby reducing DHT. Finasteride is used in the management of benign prostatic h...

May 08, 2023

The brown planthopper (BPH) is the most destructive pest of rice. The MYB transcription factors are vital for rice immunity, but most are activators. Although MYB22 positively regulates rice resistanc...

May 08, 2023

Benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) is the main cause of lower urinary tract symptoms in elder man. As the progression of aging society, the number of BPH patient is getting larger, while there are some...

Apr 17, 2023

Apocynin (Apo), an NADPH oxidase (NOX) inhibitor, has been widely used to treat various inflammatory diseases. However, the therapeutic effects of Apo on benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a multifac...

Apr 17, 2023

Neuro-imaging has given urologists a new tool to investigate the neural control of the lower urinary tract. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), it is now possible to understand which a...

Apr 10, 2023

To compare the safety and efficacy of Holmium Laser XpeedaTM Vaporization and GreenLight XPSTM Vaporization of the prostate in patients with prostate size ≤80 g.Ninety-two men with benign prostatic ...

Apr 10, 2023

This study aimed to investigate the practicality of percent body fat (PBF), calculated using bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), in predicting benign prostatic hyperplasia/lower urinary tract symp...

Apr 03, 2023

A prostate gland biopsy is a test to remove small sample of prostate tissue to be examined under a microscope. A biopsy may be done when a blood test shows a high level of prostate-specific antigen (P...

Mar 27, 2023

Simple prostatectomy has been established as a management option for lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) with glands larger than 80cc (1). Robotic-assisted si...

Mar 27, 2023

The tobacco-rice rotation cropping (TRRC) is an ecologically friendly system that can both alleviate soil nicotine pollution and decrease the brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens Stål) fitness ...

Mar 13, 2023

To develop a comprehensive scoring system in addition to the conventionally used prostatic volume (PV), for predicting the difficulty of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) that may aris...

Mar 06, 2023

Endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness are hallmarks of hypertension, and major risk factors for cardiovascular disease. BPH/2J (Schlager) mice are a genetic model of spontaneous hypertension,...

Feb 27, 2023

Prostatic artery embolization (PAE) is increasingly performed worldwide for the treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic obstruction (BPO). In contrast, the role ...

Feb 27, 2023

Bladder infusion, which involves filling the bladder with saline prior to catheter removal, has been associated with reduced time-to-discharge and increased success rates in trials without catheter (T...

Feb 20, 2023

This study reviews contemporary literature on RASP and HoLEP to evaluate perioperative outcomes, common complications, cost analytics, and future directions of both procedures.RASP is indicated for pr...