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Q. Please discuss the scope of the problem of surgery-related musculoskeletal injury. Chrouser: There's the act of surgery itself, which is hard on people's bodies. And I think on top [...]

Early treatment intensification for patients with advanced and metastatic prostate cancer has been receiving a lot of attention based on results of new clinical trials demonstrating survival benefit as compared [...]

Racial and ethnic disparities were observed among patients undergoing pelvic organ prolapse (POP) surgery in the United States in regard to prevalence, patients' baseline characteristics, types of POP surgery performed, [...]

Q. I am a coder and have a question regarding the use of Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code 55650, billed during a laparoscopic robotic prostatectomy. I have one urologist who [...]

On August 22, 2007, a 70-year-old man presented to a urologist complaining of difficulty urinating, a weak urinary stream, and the sensation that he could not empty his bladder. A [...]

Q. I was reading an article regarding different approaches to remove a previously placed ureteral stent and ran into a coding dilemma. One of our providers was performing a percutaneous [...]

On May 23, 2013, a 54-year-old man presented to a urologist with pain in his right testicle. An ultrasound showed damage to the testicle, including scarring and atrophy. Approximately 15 [...]

Urologist self-referral of services such as intensity-modulated radiation therapy and pathology has raised ethical questions that continue to be debated. In this interview, Patrick H. McKenna, MD, former chairman of [...]

In my previous editorial, I recounted the advances we had made in the past 50 years in benign disease. (1) It also provided a good opportunity to reflect on conditions [...]

Bulbomembranous urethral strictures (BMUS) after surgery for BPH are challenging, as the internal sphincter located at the bladder neck has been removed by prostatectomy, and urinary continence now depends on [...]

Hypospadias affects between 1 in 125 and 1 in 300 males, resulting from premature arrest of urethral fold tubularization. Some evidence suggests that the number of hypospadias cases is rising, [...]

In the last 11 years, four urologists have been shot by patients, two fatally. A fifth urologist was shot in 1994 and a Colorado urology clinic was the site of [...]

THE LATEST IN UROLOGIC SURGICAL TECHNIQUES AND OFFICE-BASED PROCEDURES The focus in global health in past decades has been on the management and prevention of communicable diseases. Successful organizations, including [...]

Washington--Preoperative hypoalbuminemia is a risk factor for complications following radical cystectomy, say researchers from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Study authors, led by Angela Smith, MD, assistant professor [...]

Seattle--Findings from a retrospective review of patients undergoing single-stage bulbar urethroplasty with buccal mucosa suggest that neither dorsal nor ventral onlay of the graft is inherently superior. Researchers from the [...]

Ann Arbor, MI--Medical expulsive therapy for the initial management of uncomplicated acute renal colic, with eventual uretereoscopy if 111 needed, is associated with less resource utilization and lower 6-week costs [...]

Perugia, Italy--There may be just one predictor of urinary incontinence after pelvic organ prolapse (POP) repair--urinary incontinence. The conclusion of a statistically sophisticated retrospective analysis of 221 POP surgical cases [...]

MOST PEDIATRIC pyeloplasty patients are followed up after the procedure, but there is variation in the modality used, say researchers from Seattle Children's Hospital. The most common method of follow-up [...]

New Orleans -- The prostatic urethral lift (PUL [UroLift, NeoTract, Inc.]) yields successful 3-year durability and also has a superior rate of improvement of BPH symptoms compared to transurethral resection [...]

New Orleans -- An investigational handheld transurethral therapy that delivers targeted sterile water vapor reduces lower urinary tract symptom severity in patients with BPH with no impact on sexual function. [...]

FLORIDA LAWMAKERS are hoping to add to the state's current high level of tourism by bringing international medical tourism patients to its hospitals, including one facility that already sees patients [...]

Tampa, FL--Labial and lingual mucosa are useful alternatives to buccal mucosa for graft urethroplasty, according to a recent study. Reconstruction In the retrospective study, Paul Bradley, MD, and senior author [...]

Tengion, Inc. announced that it has successfully implanted the seventh patient in its ongoing phase I clinical trial of the Neo-Urinary Conduit, which is for use in bladder cancer patients [...]

Paris--Insertion of a ureteral access sheath during retrograde intra-renal surgery may induce severe ureteric injuries, according to a prospective analysis of 136 patients undergoing procedures using ureteral access sheaths. In [...]

Ann Arbor, MI--A study investigating trends in ambulatory surgery for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) shows a significant fourfold increase in the annual rate of sling procedures performed over a contemporary [...]