Lower urinary tract symptoms and related help-seeking behaviour in South Asian men living in the UK.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To study the effect of smoking on bladder cancer presentation and outcome in a large cystectomy population. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A database including 546 patients from the University Health Network (Toronto, Canada) and Turku University Hospital (Turku, Finland) was studied. In addition to the association of...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Boström PJ,Alkhateeb S,Trottier G,Athanasopoulos PZ,Mirtti T,Kortekangas H,Laato M,van Rhijn B,van der Kwast T,Fleshner NE,Jewett MA,Finelli A,Zlotta AR

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate robotic dry laboratory (dry lab) exercises in terms of their face, content, construct and concurrent validities. To evaluate the applicability of the Global Evaluative Assessment of Robotic Skills (GEARS) tool to assess dry lab performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Participants were prospectively c...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Ramos P,Montez J,Tripp A,Ng CK,Gill IS,Hung AJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy of sustained-release (SR) bupropion to placebo in treating hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in ovulating women. PATIENTS AND METHODS:After a 1-week, placebo lead-in phase, 232 treatment-seeking women with regular menstrual cycles were randomly assigned to bupropion SR 150 mg/d...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Safarinejad MR,Hosseini SY,Asgari MA,Dadkhah F,Taghva A

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:WHAT'S KNOWN ON THE SUBJECT? AND WHAT DOES THE STUDY ADD?: In renal cell carcinoma the role of lymphadenectomy (LND) is still controversial. Moreover, no firm consensus exists regarding the minimum number of lymph nodes that should be removed to obtain a satisfactory staging LND at the time of surgery. Our f...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Capitanio U,Suardi N,Matloob R,Abdollah F,Castiglione F,Briganti A,Carenzi C,Roscigno M,Montorsi F,Bertini R

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aims of the present review were to assess the literature on published outcomes and complications associated with surgical treatments for Peyronie's disease (PD) and to assist clinicians in the effective management of PD by increasing understanding and awareness of the outcomes associated with current surgical trea...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Carson CC,Levine LA

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the perioperative, postoperative and functional outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) for renal tumours with high surgical complexity at a large volume centre. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Perioperative and functional outcomes of RAPNs for renal tumours with a Preoperative Aspects and Dim...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Volpe A,Garrou D,Amparore D,De Naeyer G,Porpiglia F,Ficarra V,Mottrie A

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate possible predictive factors of involution on ultrasonography (US) or disappearance of a prenatally detected multicystic dysplastic kidney (MCDK). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty-five children with unilateral MCDK detected by prenatal ultrasonography between 1989 and 2002 were analysed. All patients ex...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Rabelo EA,Oliveira EA,Silva GS,Pezzuti IL,Tatsuo ES

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the neurophysiological and vascular factors in diabetic impotence, particularly the role of autonomic neuropathy on venous leakage and erectile impotence. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Thirty-four diabetic men with impotence were investigated using various neurophysiological and radiological methods. The...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Colakoglu Z,Kutluay E,Ertekin C,Altay B,Killi R,Alkis A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last 3 years there has been a dramatic increase in the treatment options for patients with metastatic renal cancer. In addition to the cytokines interferon and interleukin 2, recently approved agents include sorafenib, sunitinib, temsirolimus and bevacizumab. A plethora of agents that are likely to have clinica...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Samlowski WE,Wong B,Vogelzang NJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the possibility that allogeneic responses might, by chance, encompass cross-reactive T cell clones specific for neo-antigenic tumour determinants, and thereby activate antitumour immunity; such cross-reactions are well documented for antiviral immunity, and genetic instability in developing cancers...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Muir G,Rajbabu K,Callen C,Fabre JW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To test whether salvage radiotherapy (SRT) in patients with lymph node negative (N0) prostate cancer is equally effective with persistent prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and PSA rising from the undetectable range (<0.1 ng/mL) after radical prostatectomy (RP). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We assessed post-SRT PSA pro...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Bartkowiak D,Siegmann A,Böhmer D,Budach V,Wiegel T

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:A comparison of laparoscopic and open donor nephrectomy is presented by authors from the UK. They found that the laparoscopic approach could safely be offered to patients treated in experienced units and after adequate training fo the surgeon, with no increase in complications or decrease in efficacy. OBJEC...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Wilson CH,Bhatti AA,Rix DA,Soomro NA

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Study Type - Therapy (RCT) Level of Evidence 1b What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? Men with prostate cancer have higher rates of non-cancer mortality and CV morbidity and some of that excess risk has been attributed to the treatment they receive. ADT is an established treatment option ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Nobes JP,Langley SE,Klopper T,Russell-Jones D,Laing RW

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the conservative management of encrusted pyelitis (EP), an infectious disease caused by urea-splitting micro-organisms (Corynebacterium group D2 being the most common), and characterized by stone encrustation of the collecting system. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Four patients (aged 17-62 years) with EP ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Meria P,Desgrippes A,Fournier R,Arfi C,Antoine C,Martinat L,Teillac P,Le Duc A

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the spontaneous regeneration, over a long period, of the seriously injured sympathetic pathway controlling the prostate. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The hypogastric nerve (HGN), which is part of the sympathetic pathway from the spinal cord to the prostate, was partly removed over half of its length on ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kobayashi T,Kihara K,Hyochi N,Masuda H,Sato K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate both the patterns of prescription of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with prostate cancer (PCa) and the adherence to European Association of Urology (EAU) guidelines for ADT prescription. METHODS:The Choosing Treatment for Prostate Cancer (CHOICE) study was an Italian multicentre c...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Morgia G,Russo GI,Tubaro A,Bortolus R,Randone D,Gabriele P,Trippa F,Zattoni F,Porena M,Mirone V,Serni S,Del Nero A,Lay G,Ricardi U,Rocco F,Terrone C,Pagliarulo A,Ludovico G,Vespasiani G,Brausi M,Simeone C,Novell

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the performance of a primary magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/ultrasonography (US) fusion-guided targeted biopsy (TB), and in combination with an added systematic biopsy (SB). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Analysis of 318 consecutive biopsy-naïve men with suspicious multiparametric MRI (mpMRI; Prostate Ima...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Maxeiner A,Kittner B,Blobel C,Wiemer L,Hofbauer SL,Fischer T,Asbach P,Haas M,Penzkofer T,Fuller F,Miller K,Cash H

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine if antibiotic prophylaxis is required for intradetrusor botulinum toxin A (BoNT-A) injections. PATIENTS AND METHODS:This was a prospective non-randomized study. Inclusion criteria were adult patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity who failed anticholinergic-based first-line treatment and ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Mouttalib S,Khan S,Castel-Lacanal E,Guillotreau J,De Boissezon X,Malavaud B,Marque P,Rischmann P,Gamé X

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To measure dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase (DPD), an enzyme involved in the metabolism of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), expression in prostate cancer and determine whether 5-chloro-2,4-dihydroxypyridine (CDHP), a potent inhibitor of DPD, enhances the antitumoral activity of 5-FU against prostate cancer. PATIENTS, M...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Li Y,Mizutani Y,Shiraishi T,Nakamura T,Mikami K,Takaha N,Okihara K,Kawauchi A,Sakai T,Miki T

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the outcome 10 years after an individual course of pelvic floor muscle (PFM) exercises for genuine stress incontinence. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Postal questionnaires were sent to 52 women who had undergone PFM training 10 years earlier, and their medical files were reviewed. The main outcome measur...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Cammu H,Van Nylen M,Amy JJ

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the effects of diuresis induced by a loop diuretic (frusemide), an osmotic diuretic (mannitol) and a high-osmolar radio-contrast medium (sodium iothalamate) on the intrarenal resistive index (RI) in dogs with chronic unilateral partial ureteric obstruction (UPUO). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The split r...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Yokoyama H,Tsuji Y

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present two patients with the tuberous sclerosis complex in whom giant angiomyolipomas (AMLs) were managed conservatively for >20 years, as large (>4 cm) symptomatic AMLs are generally treated with embolization or nephrectomy because of the risks of haemorrhage. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The first patient init...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Danforth TL,Lane BR,Novick AC

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To develop and validate an in vitro method suitable for the quantitative investigation of the growth of calcium oxalate stones through to a clinically significant size. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Small fragments of calcium oxalate calculi were suspended in a mixed suspension/mixed product removal crystalliser sup...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Ananth K,Kavanagh JP,Walton RC,Rao PN

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of the present paper was to determine the impact of testicular cancer (TC) and its treatments on fertility and to review the current management options for the infertile patient with TC, both before diagnosis and after treatment, with the aim of providing practical recommendations to update contempor...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Moody JA,Ahmed K,Yap T,Minhas S,Shabbir M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To highlight the existence of Schistosoma haematobium in certain ethnic minority groups in Britain and in English citizens who have recently visited Africa and the Middle East, so that general practitioners and paediatric nephrologists/urologists are aware of its occurrence and consider it among the different...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Samuel M,Misra D,Larcher V,Price E

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of a routine explanation provided to men on their expectation of pain associated with a urodynamic study (UDS). PATIENTS AND METHODS:The purpose of UDS is to reproduce patient's symptoms during the urine storage and voiding phases, and thus understand the causes of the patient's sympto...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Greenstein A,Bar-Yosef Y,Chen J,Matzkin H

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:• To examine the prevalence and burden of overactive bladder (OAB) with bother in the UK and Sweden compared to OAB without bother and no/minimal OAB/lower urinary tract (LUTS) symptoms, respectively. PATIENTS AND METHODS:• A cross-sectional population-representative survey was conducted via the Internet in ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Coyne KS,Sexton CC,Kopp ZS,Ebel-Bitoun C,Milsom I,Chapple C

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate prediction is essential for patient counselling, appropriate selection of treatments and determination of eligibility for clinical trials. In this review we assess the available determinants of oncological outcome after radical cystectomy (RC) for transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. We reviewe...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Margulis V,Lotan Y,Montorsi F,Shariat SF

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association of patient age with pathological and long-term oncological outcomes after radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder carcinoma, as this disease, like many others, increases in incidence with age. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed 241 consecutive patients with invasive blad...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Resorlu B,Beduk Y,Baltaci S,Ergun G,Talas H

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To present the results of endopyelotomy using endoluminal ultrasonography (EUS) to identify crossing vessels, as the success rates of endopyelotomy are generally lower than pyeloplasty, especially in patients with crossing vessels. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty-one consecutive patients who underwent EUS before ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Parkin J,Evans S,Kumar PV,Timoney AG,Keeley FX Jr

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00