Jan 24, 2020

The prevalence of erectile dysfunction (ED) increases progressively with age, but its potential pathophysiology has not been fully demonstrated. Hence, this article was aimed to identify the functiona...

Jan 24, 2020

This study aimed to investigate whether infertility and its treatment affect couple sexuality. A systematic literature review was performed, focusing on female and male sexual dysfunctions due to infe...

Jan 24, 2020

To assess change in functional outcomes after second focal-HIFU compared to one focal-HIFU treatment.In this multi-centre study (2005-2016), 821 men underwent focal-HIFU for localised non-metastatic p...

Jan 24, 2020

This paper aims to investigate the pathological characteristics of CD40/CD40L and NF-κB proteins related to inflammation in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) tissue, as well as the outcomes of infla...

Jan 24, 2020

The aim of study was to investigate the expression of microRNA-27b in different prostate tissues and its anti-tumor effects in prostate cancer.Measuring the expression of microRNA-27b, evaluating the ...

Jan 24, 2020

This study aims to explore the effect of gene polymorphisms of 5a-reduction enzyme (), steroidogenic cytochrome P-450 17alpha-hydroxylase (), aromatase cytochrome P450 family 19 () and vita-min D rece...

Jan 24, 2020

The National Institutes of Health and Center for Disease Control recommend the readability of self-administered patient questionnaires to be written at or below a sixth to eight grade reading level. T...

Jan 24, 2020

To evaluate the efficacy and safety of 1470-nm Diode Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (DiLEP) in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) continuously receiving oral anticoagulants or antipla...

Jan 24, 2020

COMPARE (COMparing treatment options for ProstAte cancer) aimed to evaluate and quantify the trade-offs patients make between different aspects of active surveillance and definitive therapy.A Discrete...

Jan 24, 2020

Controversy remains within the pediatric urology community regarding adequate duration of follow up after hypospadias repair. Some have suggested that minimal long-term follow-up is necessary due to a...

Jan 24, 2020

YKL-40 is an acute phase protein elevated in patients with infectious and inflammatory diseases. We tested the hypothesis that baseline elevated YKL-40 is associated with increased risk of future infe...

Jan 24, 2020

Retrospective review OBJECTIVE.: Compare post-operative infection rates and 30-day outcomes in spine surgery patients with and without a pre-operative urinary tract infection (UTI).There is mixed evid...

Jan 21, 2020

We sought to compare virtual visits, remote patient encounters via a live video system, with conventional in-person visits with respect to clinical outcomes, family experience and costs in a pediatric...

Jan 21, 2020

to provide an update on the web pages of academic Urology departments in the United States and to evaluate for consistency of information available to applicants.The American Urologic Association accr...

Jan 21, 2020

To investigate the methodological quality of systematic reviews (SRs) published in the urological literature.PubMed® was systematically searched for SRs related to questions of prevention and therapy...

Jan 17, 2020

To capture the complete patient experience, knowledge and perceptions among women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) by conducting a large-scale digital ethnographic analysis of anonymous online p...

Jan 17, 2020

Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) has been gaining momentum in pediatric urology and it is essential to analyze the unique complications pertinent to this approach. Here, we conducted a systematic revi...

Jan 17, 2020

To better understand promotion timelines across gender and race/ethnicity and how academic output impacts promotion in urology.We examined the 2017 census. An academic subset were asked questions rega...

Jan 17, 2020

Life expectancy for people with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) is increasing due to advances in treatment methods and in neuro-urology. Thus, developing urinary bladder cancer (UBC) is gaining imp...

Jan 17, 2020

The perioperative management of patients who are receiving antithrombotic (antiplatelet or anticoagulant) therapy and require urologic surgery is challenging due to the inherent risk for surgical blee...