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...

Nov 01, 2019

Here are what the editors at HealthDay consider to be the most important developments in Urology for October 2019. This roundup includes the latest research news from journal articles, as well as the ...

Oct 16, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 16, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Opioids do not provide improved pain control following a vasectomy and may be tied to a higher risk for persistent use, according to a study published in t...

Oct 02, 2019

WEDNESDAY, Oct. 2, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Patients undergoing joint replacement under epidural anesthesia have no increased risk for postoperative adverse genitourinary (GU) complications by skippin...

Sep 16, 2019

According to recent estimates, fewer than 10% of men diagnosed with prostate cancer present with Gleason score as high as 9 or 10. “Although these patients represent a small subset of men with the d...

Aug 13, 2019

TUESDAY, Aug. 13, 2019 (HealthDay News) -- Erectile dysfunction (ED) may negatively affect work productivity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), according to a study published online Aug. 6 in...