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 investigate possible differences between Italian and Swedish men in health-related quality of life (HRQL) after cystectomy and orthotopic bladder substitution for bladder cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Thirty-three men in Padua, Italy and 33 in Lund, Sweden were assessed after respective mean postoperative ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Månsson A,Caruso A,Capovilla E,Colleen S,Bassi P,Pagano F,Månsson W

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the effect of contact laser prostate surgery in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and contact laser prostatectomy was conducted, with an economic evaluation o...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Keoghane SR,Lawrence KC,Gray AM,Doll HA,Hancock AM,Turner K,Sullivan ME,Dyar O,Cranston D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To compare the serum levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) in patients with prostate cancer and in control patients with no malignancy, and to evaluate any possible influence of testicular androgen withdrawal on the level of IGF-1 in patients with prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:IGF-1 was mea...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kurek R,Tunn UW,Eckart O,Aumüller G,Wong J,Renneberg H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the incidence of detrusor instability (DI) detected by conventional and ambulatory bladder pressure monitoring, any link between urodynamic findings before and after colposuspension, and between patients' symptoms and the urodynamic findings. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Sixty-five patients, scheduled t...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Brown K,Hilton P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the temperature of 2% lignocaine hydrochloride gel affects the initial discomfort during instillation into the male urethra. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Sixty consenting men were randomized to receive 11 mL of 2% lignocaine hydrochloride gel (Instillagel, Farco-Pharma GmbH, Cologne, Germany) at...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Thompson TJ,Thompson N,O'Brien A,Young MR,McCleane G

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the value of measuring serum concentrations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), advanced and localized prostate cancer, and thus assess the role of angiogenesis factors as markers of malignancy...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Walsh K,Sherwood RA,Dew TK,Mulvin D

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether aneusomy for chromosomes 7, 9 and 17 (reported to predict recurrence in up to 65% of patients with superficial transitional cell bladder cancer and thus providing the opportunity for early and effective treatment) reflects specific genetic events on these chromosomes or merely wider unspe...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Bartlett JM,Adie L,Watters AD,Going JJ,Grigor KM

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare the efficacy and safety of ciprofloxacin 500 mg orally twice daily with pivampicillin 700 mg orally twice daily for 10 days in men with acute epididymitis and over 40 years of age. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study comprised 172 men who entered a prospective, controlled, randomized, double-blind, tri...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Eickhoff JH,Frimodt-Møller N,Walter S,Frimodt-Møller C

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine any bias by authors of different nationalities in their citation rate of selected urological journals in papers published in the British Journal of Urology and the Journal of Urology. METHODS:Using a simple computer program and text files of accepted reports in the BJU, or those available on CD-...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Grange RI

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the prevalence of comorbidity among patients with prostate cancer in relation to tumour and patient characteristics and to assess if comorbidity was a determining factor in the treatment choice for patients with localized prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Serious comorbidity was recorded in t...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Post PN,Kil PJ,Hendrikx AJ,Janssen-Heijnen ML,Crommelin MA,Coebergh JW

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of urinary nuclear matrix protein-22 (NMP22) in detecting bladder cancer, to compare the diagnostic performance of NMP22 alone and when corrected by urinary creatinine level, and to correlate NMP22 level with the histological and clinical characteristics of bladder...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Sánchez-Carbayo M,Herrero E,Megías J,Mira A,Soria F

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the overall tolerability of urodynamic studies used in the assessment of men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), by assessing the objective and subjective morbidity experienced during and after urodynamic studies, and to assess the voiding complaints caused by the combination of urodynamic ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kortmann BB,Sonke GS,D'ancona FC,Floratos DL,Debruyne FM,De La Rosette JJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the therapeutic potential of sympatholytic agents on premature ejaculation in an animal model, using monitoring of rat seminal vesicle pressure change in response to electrical stimulation of the lesser splanchnic nerve. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Male Wistar rats (aged 12-14 weeks) were injected intr...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Hsieh JT,Liu SP,Hsieh CH,Cheng JT

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To report our experience of using laparoscopy for the accurate location and simultaneous removal of small dysplastic kidneys with ectopic ureteric insertion causing urinary incontinence and that were not detected by conventional imaging modalities. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Seven girls (mean age 7.9 years, range ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Yeung CK,Liu KW,Ng WT,Tan HL,Tam YH,Lee KH

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the role of urine cytology in the investigation of men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in the absence of haematuria. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The study comprised 336 men attending a LUTS assessment clinic, who had neither macroscopic nor microscopic haematuria. One sample of urine was collec...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Potter JM,Quigley M,Pengelly AW,Fawcett DP,Malone PR

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the outcome of 23 consecutive patients with Fournier's gangrene. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients' charts were reviewed retrospectively from all those treated for Fournier's gangrene between July 1994 and July 1997 at the UCLA affiliated hospitals. RESULTS:Twenty-three patients were identified (mean...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Corman JM,Moody JA,Aronson WJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the metabolic characteristics of elderly patients with recurrent calcium oxalate stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Metabolic abnormalities were investigated in 88 patients with recurrent calcium oxalate stones, including 70 aged <60 years and 18 aged >/=60 years. The frequency of each metabolic abnor...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Yagisawa T,Hayashi T,Yoshida A,Okuda H,Kobayashi H,Ishikawa N,Goya N,Toma H

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To ascertain the potential thrombotic risk associated with transurethral prostatectomy (TURP). PATIENTS AND METHODS:The changes in coagulation variables were assessed in a prospective study of 40 patients undergoing TURP. RESULTS:There was a significant increase in thrombin-antithrombin complexes 6 h after ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Bell CR,Murdock PJ,Pasi KJ,Morgan RJ

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the long-term outcome in children who had an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) placed, after a minimum of 10 years of follow-up. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The medical records of patients who had an AUS placed at the Children's Hospital of Michigan were reviewed and a telephone questionnaire was then ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kryger JV,Spencer Barthold J,Fleming P,González R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To devise a procedure capable of curing complicated ureteric strictures and replacing segments of lost ureter, without the long-term infective complications of bowel interposition or the surgical magnitude of autotransplantation. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Four patients with complicated strictures and one with seg...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Naude JH

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the endocrine effects, efficacy and tolerability of a 10.8-mg depot formulation of Zoladextrade mark (goserelin acetate, Zeneca Pharmaceuticals, Wilmington, Delaware, USA), a luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone agonist analogue, when administration was extended from every 12 weeks to every 13 w...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Sarosdy MF,Schellhammer PF,Soloway MS,Vogelzang NJ,Crawford ED,Presti J,Chodak GW,Mitchell P,Porter L

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate histopathologically the beneficial effects of Panax ginseng extract on guinea pig testes damaged by 2,3, 7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ninety guinea pigs were divided into six equal groups. The normal controls (group 1) received vehicle and saline; group 2 rece...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim W,Hwang S,Lee H,Song H,Kim S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe our experience of penile urethral repair and reconstruction, cataloguing the change in practice from one-stage flap to two-stage free graft procedures for anterior urethroplasty. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between January 1992 and December 1996, 79 patients underwent anterior urethroplasty. Of the 45 o...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Greenwell TJ,Venn SN,Mundy AR

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the pharmacological effects of ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde on isolated rat bladder muscle, and thus assess the potential influence of ethanol ingestion on the risk of urinary retention in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Isometric tension changes of...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim HJ,Moon H,Sohng I,Lee HW,Lee G,Lee JG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether an indwelling catheter on free drainage provides a constantly low intravesical pressure in patients with a neuropathic bladder. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Thirty patients with complete spinal-cord injury (SCI) whose bladders were managed exclusively with an indwelling catheter were assessed ur...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Jamil F,Williamson M,Ahmed YS,Harrison SC

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To assess the results of transperitoneal laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy as a separate staging procedure in patients with early prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:The results were reviewed from the first 27 patients with prostate cancer admitted for laparoscopic lymphadenectomy between January 1994 an...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Shackley DC,Irving SO,Brough WA,O'Reilly PH

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To create an experimental animal model to examine changes in bladder volume and histology after bladder augmentation in growing individuals and from the model, evaluate a method using demucosalized intestinal grafts and short-term bladder drainage. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The study comprised 21 piglets: in gro...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Clementson Kockum C,Willén R,Malmfors G

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effect of combined finasteride and flutamide therapy on haemoglobin and haematocrit values in men with advanced prostate cancer. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Nineteen men, previously untreated by hormone therapy, with histologically confirmed adenocarcinoma of the prostate and clinical evidence of a...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Ornstein DK,Beiser JA,Andriole GL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the optimal contractile response of isolated ureters to inflammatory mediators and neurotransmitters by evaluating four common methods of ureteric suspension. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ureters from adult domestic swine were placed immediately in Krebs buffer and cut into 4-5 mm segments. Four method...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Jerde TJ,Saban R,Nakada SY

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00