abstract：:The use of injectable bulking agents into the submucosal layer of the pediatric urinary tract continues to grow. Treatment strategies for vesicoureteral reflux and urinary incontinence have changed with the introduction of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid as a minimally invasive option. Socially and medically debilitating ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Dean GE,Doumanian LR

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cancers of the prostate contribute substantial morbidity and mortality to the male population. The correlation of prostate cancer incidence with aging suggests that the disease burden associated with prostate carcinoma will increase dramatically over the next several decades. Despite the large number of fatalities dir...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Nelson PS,Montgomery B

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peyronie's disease is an acquired condition that presents clinically with a palpable induration, a distinct plaque, or a curvature of the erect penis. At times, the erections are painful. Erectile dysfunction (ED) often is associated with Peyronie's disease. The current era of phosphodiesterase therapy for the treatme...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Jack GS,Gonzalez-Cadavid N,Rajfer J

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conservative treatment of stress urinary incontinence for women has many facets. Each intervention may have value and patients may benefit from simple, reversible recommendations and techniques versus invasive surgery. Starting with a thorough history, lifestyle modifications may lead to decreased incontinence. De...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Dwyer NT,Kreder KJ

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have cast doubt on the reliability of serum total prostate-specific antigen as a biomarker for the detection and prognosis of prostate cancer. Biomarkers that can identify those men at risk for clinically significant prostate cancer are desperately needed. The search for biomarkers that may improve the ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Hernandez J,Canby-Hagino E,Thompson IM

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is aimed at focusing on the nerve-sparing aspect of the robotic prostatectomy. It reviews the existing principles and presents the arguments based on robotic fresh cadaver dissections and from actual robotic prostatectomy cases. ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Tewari A,El-Hakim A,Horninger W,Peschel R,Coll D,Bartsch G

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic adrenalectomy is considered to be the standard of care for the surgical excision of the adrenal gland. Since the initial report of laparoscopic adrenalectomy in 1992, it has evolved into a feasible and reproducible minimally invasive procedure for benign adrenal tumors. Transperitoneal and retroperitoneal...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Munver R,Ilbeigi P

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urgency and urinary urge incontinence are troublesome and complex symptoms that can complicate the diagnosis and treatment of stress urinary incontinence. Despite this fact, first-line intervention frequently is directed toward the incompetent bladder neck using surgical approaches. Persistent urgency or detrusor inst...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Anger J,Rodríguez LV

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Symptoms such as overactive bladder represent disorders of bladder control. Functional brain scanning by positron emission tomography and functional magnetic resonance imaging suggest that normal control is exerted by a network of regions in the emotional nervous system, including periaqueductal gray, thalamus, insula...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Griffiths DJ

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the mechanisms by which vaginal surgery affects female sexual function and related pathophysiology to potential causes. The anatomy, neurovascular supply of the clitoris and introitus, and intrapelvic nerve supply are discussed as they apply to vaginal surgery. Methods to avoid neurovascular damag...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Tunuguntla HS,Gousse AE

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Each of the three most common contemporary treatments for localized prostate cancer, radical prostatectomy, external beam radiotherapy, and brachytherapy, can have adverse effects on sexual health. Sexual health outcome can be improved by treatment-specific factors, such as the use of nerve-sparing technique during ra...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Hollenbeck BK,Dunn RL,Wei JT,Sandler HM,Sanda MG

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic surgery was originally developed by gynecologists and general surgeons. Based on their experience, the first successful laparoscopic procedures in urology were performed transperitoneally. However, this novel technique transformed traditionally retroperitoneal procedures into transperitoneal procedures, g...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Hoznek A,Salomon L,Gettman M,Stolzenburg JU,Abbou CC

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erectile dysfunction (ED) often is caused by endothelial dysfunction and may be a sign that a patient has vascular disease elsewhere in the body. Risk factors for coronary artery disease such as lipid abnormalities, smoking, diabetes, and hypertension also are risk factors for ED. Oral therapy for ED, such as sildenaf...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Kloner RA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To decrease side effects observed after high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment for localized prostate cancer and to re-establish normal micturition in a patient population that often presents with concomitant prostate enlargement, the impact of a combined transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Chaussy C,Thüroff S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most important change in urology during the past decade was the development of minimally invasive surgery, particularly laparoscopy. However, the main drawback of laparoscopy is a steep learning curve, which results from the significant changes in the surgical environment. Although laparoscopy can provide importan...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Hoznek A,Katz R,Gettman M,Salomon L,Antiphon P,de la Taille A,Yiou R,Chopin D,Abbou CC

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the past 25 years, lasers have transitioned from merely destructive or ablative tools to those with reconstructive uses. It has been shown that the application of laser thermal energy to tissue will result in welding of the approximated areas. Furthermore, the addition of protein solder and chromophores (tissue...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Schalow EL,Kirsch AJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the proven efficacy of oral therapy for erectile dysfunction (ED), some patients are unable to take these medications because of drug interactions (ie, sildenafil and nitroglycerin) or a lack of response. Topical agents represent another minimally invasive option for the treatment of ED. This review discusses ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Yap RL,McVary KT

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a disease condition characterized by abnormal prostate growth in conjunction with distinct lower urinary tract symptoms. This paper considers the extent to which the prostatic vascular system contributes to normal prostate growth control as well as whether abnormal blood flow patt...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Ghafar MA,Puchner PJ,Anastasiadis AG,Cabelin MA,Buttyan R

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoxygenases oxidatively metabolize polyunsaturated fatty acids to a rich spectrum of biologically active products. One enzyme of the lipoxygenase family, Arachidonate 15-lipoxygenase-1 (arachidonate:oxygen 15-oxidoreductase, EC 1.13.11.33), is implicated in several forms of epithelial cell cancers, and provides a ra...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Kelavkar U,Glasgow W,Eling TE

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At present, it is reasonable to counsel all patients, as well as family members of patients, who have a palpable varicocele about the long-term risks for impaired fertility. Currently, no one can predict with absolute certainty if any adolescent with a varicocele will be at risk for future infertility. Based on existi...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Kass EJ

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy can be efficaciously performed by either the transperitoneal or the retroperitoneal laparoscopic approach. The primary indication for selecting one approach over another has historically depended on the individual surgeon's experience and training. With either technique, laparoscopy ad...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Matin SF,Gill IS

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray technology provides a means to examine large numbers of molecular changes related to a biological process in a high throughput manner. This review discusses plausible utilities of this technology in prostate cancer research, including definition of prostate cancer predisposition, global profiling of gen...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Ho SM,Lau KM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the advent of intracytoplasmic injection, the management of azoospermia has become ever more important. Gametic manipulation to produce biological offspring is not feasible unless sperm from the azoospermic male patient is obtainable. This article provides an overview of the diagnosis and treatment of azoospermia...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Lin WW

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous surgeries have been proposed for the treatment of genuine stress incontinence, with the goals to improve functional outcome and decrease complications and their associated morbidity. Two new, minimally invasive procedures, transvaginal retropubic urethropexy and transvaginal Cooper's ligament sling, are revie...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Koduri S,Sand P

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Infectious Diseases Society of America has published guidelines for the treatment of uncomplicated cystitis. Recommendations are that for healthy, adult, nonpregnant women with bacterial cystitis, 3 days of trimethoprim/ sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMZ) or trimethoprim alone is standard therapy in those regions where le...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Warren JW

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has recently attracted national attention in the United States because of its widespread use and associated cost. CAM covers a broad spectrum of healing philosophies and approaches. Despite its widespread use, little is known about its safety, efficacy, cost effectiveness, ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Yip I,Duran N

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgical techniques to repair hypospadias have undergone remarkable advances in recent years with the development and widespread use of dorsal urethral plate incision to facilitate urethroplasty. Clinical studies of the technique have shown excellent cosmesis and low complication rates for dorsal plate incision (DPI) ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Andersen B,Mitchell M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most adrenal tumors are found incidentally and appear as small solitary nodules on abdominal imaging. Occasionally, work-up demonstrates multifocal or bilateral adrenal tumors. Certain patients are predisposed to multiple lesions, such as those with hereditary forms of pheochromocytoma as seen in von Hippel-Lindau dis...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Pavlovich CP,Linehan WM,Walther MM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Congenital abnormalities, cancer, trauma, infection, inflammation, iatrogenic injuries, and other conditions may lead to genitourinary organ damage or loss, requiring eventual reconstruction. Tissue engineering follows the principles of cell transplantation, materials science, and engineering toward the development of...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Atala A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aging can be associated with an abnormal decline in testosterone production, mainly due to pituitary failure, and is reflected by low serum testosterone concentrations. Manifestations of testosterone deficiency can be subtle, can be misinterpreted as consequences of normal aging, and include lack of libido and energy,...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Nolten WE

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most common form of prostatitis is National Institutes of Health category III, also known as chronic abacterial prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. The search for effective and durable therapy for this condition remains frustrating for both patients and physicians. A new approach incorporating a neurobahavio...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Potts JM,O'Dougherty E

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients diagnosed with prostate cancer who elect to pursue active treatment of their disease must choose among the many available treatment alternatives. Several treatment options now exist for similar-stage disease (clinical T1-3N0M0), including radical prostatectomy, external beam radiation, prostate brachytherapy ...

journal_title：Current urology reports

authors： Benoit RM,Cohen JK,Miller RJ Jr

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00