Psychological distress in patients undergoing surgery for urological cancer: A single centre cross-sectional study
Abstract
Purpose
Interest in the disease-specific psychological well-being of patients with cancer has increased, and it has been estimated that less than half of all patients with cancer are properly identified and subsequently treated for anxiety or depression.
Prospective study to compare antibiosis versus the association of N-acetylcysteine, D-mannose and Morinda citrifolia fruit extract in preventing urinary tract infections in patients submitted to urodynamic investigation.
Abstract
Background
The abuse of antimicrobical drugs has increased the resistance of microorganisms to treatments, thus to make urinary tract infections (UTIs) more difficult to eradicate.
Thulium Laser Prostate Enucleation in Refractory Urinary Retention: Operative and Functional Outcomes in a Large Cohort of Patients.
Abstract
Objective:
To evaluate the functional and operative results of thulium laser enucleation of the prostate (thulep) in patients with indwelling catheters for refractory urinary retention.
Conventional testicular sperm extraction (TESE) and non-obstructive azoospermia: is there still a chance in the era of microdissection TESE? Results from a single non-academic community hospital.
Abstract
Spermatozoa can be retrieved in non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) patients despite the absence of ejaculated spermatozoa in their semen because of the presence of isolated foci with active spermatogenesis.
One day surgery in the treatment of benign prostatic enlargement with thulium laser: A single institution experience.
Abstract
Purpose:
Various articles have previously addressed the introduction of new surgical laser therapies for an enlarged prostate gland causing obstructive symptoms. The objective of this study was to report the feasibility of performing the thulium laser vapo-enucleation of the prostate (thuvep) procedure for benign prostatic obstruction in a 1-day surgery.
Sexual outcome of patients undergoing thulium laser enucleation of the prostate for benign prostatic hyperplasia.
Abstract
Treatment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) may affect the quality of sexual function and ejaculation.
Are Histological Findings of Thulium Laser Vapo-Enucleation Versus Transurethral Resection of the Prostate Comparable?
Abstract
We investigated if an adequate histological diagnosis can be made from tissue after Thulium laser vapo-enucleation of the prostate (ThuVEP) and whether it is comparable to transurethral prostate resection (TURP) tissue findings in patients with symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia.
The Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI): linguistic validation of the Italian version.
Abstract
Introduction:
Although several new measurements for female sexual dysfunction (fsd) have recently been developed, the female sexual function index (fsfi) remains the gold standard for screening and one of the most widely used questionnaires.
The impact of ventral oral graft bulbar urethroplasty on sexual life.
Abstract
Objective:
To evaluate the pre- and postoperative aspects of sexual life (sl) in patients with bulbar urethral stricture who underwent ventral oral graft urethroplasty.
Open intervascular nephron-sparing surgery for pyelocaliceal transitional cell carcinoma in solitary kidney planned with contrast-enhanced multidetector CT.
Abstract
A 69-year-old man presented with a tumor involving the right renal pelvis and the middle and lower calyces in a solitary kidney.
Urinary stress incontinence treatment with Remeex in a patient with epispadias: a case report.
Abstract
Epispadias is a rare condition in women. A postmenopausal 53-year-old woman with a known problem of epispadias came to our outpatient clinic complaining of persistent severe urinary stress incontinence without overactive bladder symptoms.
