Urology

On the final day of EAU22 in Amsterdam, experts stepped away from the action to present highlights in prostate cancer treatment from this year’s congress.

Patients with high-risk, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) and urologists alike face the dilemma between the imminent risk of…

We explore the challenges surrounding the diagnosis and management of resistant pathogens which cause UTIs and recurrent UTIs

PSA remains the gold standard as a first-line screening test, but is limited in terms of specificity, especially among older men. We now have available new, non-invasive biomarkers which can help men decide whether to proceed with biopsy, in order to find high-grade, potentially lethal tumors early while minimizing over-diagnosis of low-grade, indolent tumors.

In this surgical webinar Ben Challacombe, Guy’s Hospital & King’s College London, UK, demonstrates the Holmium Laser Enucleation of the Prostate (HoLEP) method for a patient with hypertrophic prostate and severe lower urinary tract symptoms

In this webinar focusing on robotic urology, you will have the opportunity to watch a robotic adenomectomy being performed on a patient with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The procedure is performed by Prof. A Erdem Canda from Koç University Hospital in Turkey, who will talk the audience through the different steps.

Alan Wein from the University of Pennsylvania, the webinar starts by introducing the current guidelines with relation to the diagnosis, conservative and pharmacologic therapy, and treatment goals. In addition, behavioral therapy strategies and pharmacological therapies such as antimuscarinics and estrogen are discussed alongside etiologies of failure such as missed diagnosis.

Alan Wein, Emeritus Chief of Urology at the University of Pennsylvania, introduces the topic by discussing the terminology, the definition of urgency and how this is perceived, and providing his expert views on current issues and controversies with this definition