Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common complication after pelvic floor surgery. Antibiotics as prophylaxis may reduce the prevalence of UTI's by 50%, but bacterial resistance may be a lar...
Measuring the urethral circumference accurately during artificial urethral sphincter (AUS) placement is an important technical aspect to optimize the selection of cuff size. Differing metho...
Our aim was to report the long-term follow-up for minimally invasive open pyeloplasty in children.A total of 213 children with a mean age 16.33 months underwent miniature open pyeloplasty fo...
Lymphocele is the most common complication arising after pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) in the setting of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP). The only data available until now ...
The objective of this study was to compare the morbidity of vaginal versus laparoscopic hysterectomy when performed with uterosacral ligament suspension (USLS).Retrospective propensity-match...
In patients with normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), lumbar puncture (LP) is an effective method for assessing both the diagnosis as well as the possible efficacy of ventriculoperitoneal sh...
To examine the infectious features of patients with urinary pubic symphysis fistula (UPF) and their association with osteomyelitis.We conducted a review of our quality improvement database f...
Fluoroquinolones are routinely overprescribed for uncomplicated urinary tract infection (uUTI), acute sinusitis, and acute bronchitis. In 2016, the United States (US) Food and Drug Administr...
Carbonic anhydrase II (CA-II) knockout mice (Car2)have depleted numbers of renal intercalated cells which are increasingly recognized to be innate immune effectors. We compared pyelonephriti...
Urinary tract infections are the most common infections in nursing home residents. However, most antibiotic use is for unlikely cystitis (ie, nonspecific symptoms and positive culture result...
In this review, we discuss how the approach should be throughout the symptomatic and diagnostic process of recurrent bladder cystitis.The available literature regarding recurrent bladder cys...
BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the clinical safety and effectiveness of transurethral bipolar plasmakinetic enucleation of the prostate (PKEP) vs. transurethral bipolar plas...
To assess persistent and de novo rates of overactive bladder (OAB) and urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) in patients with incontinence after prostate treatment (IPT) focusing on differences...
Sacral neuromodulation (SNM) is a guideline-recommended treatment for voiding dysfunction including urgency, urge incontinence, and nonobstructive retention as well as fecal incontinence. Th...
To demonstrate a modification of the classical Burch procedure, called "Laparoscopic TOT - like Burch colposuspencion". The technique does not involve any type of prothesis placement and it ...
Despite current progress achieved in the surgical technique of radical prostatectomy, post-operative complications such as erectile dysfunction and urinary incontinence persist at high incid...
We aim to assess the surgical outcomes of our novel hysteropexy procedure, laparoscopic long mesh surgery (LLMS) with augmented round ligaments. Twenty-five consecutive women with stage II o...
In inflammatory dermatoses, dermal melanophages (MLP) are ascribed to "pigment incontinence", with melanin "dropping down" from the epidermis. Although this is analogous to the "dropping dow...
Diabetes is a leading risk factor for development of urinary tract infection (UTI). UTI caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC), and other uropathogens is a common infectious conditi...
Rectal prolapse (RP) in pediatric patients may require surgical intervention. Varying surgical approaches and heterogenous patient populations have resulted in difficulty defining surgical ...
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