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MRU for diagnosis of paediatric ureteral stricture

Hydronephrosis is diagnosed antenatally in approximately 1-5% of all pregnancies. A rare cause is ureteral stricture, found in 4% of these cases. This study reports a series of 28 strictures diagnosed over a 10-year period by magnetic resonance urography (MRU)...

Urinary retention in women: what a general urologist should know

Urinary retention (UR) is classified by the International Continence Society (ICS) into acute (AUR) and chronic (CUR). AUR is defined as the “inability to pass any urine despite having a full bladder which is painfully distended and readily palpable or...

Movember addresses sexual health needs in prostate cancer patients

When Travis Garone and Luke Slattery met up in the Gypsy Bar in Melbourne for a quiet beer back in 2003 and came up with the idea for Movember, they could not have imagined what it would become and the...

ERIC (The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity) Nocturnal Enuresis

This half day session on Nocturnal Enuresis uses the three systems approach to explore the reasons why children wet at night, with a focus on a child-orientated, evidence-based approach to treatment. The tools on the ERIC website will structure our journey through assessment and diagnosis to identifying and implementing optimal treatment.

Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow: Prostate Cancer Training and Update Day

The Prostate Cancer Training and Update Day will provide cancer specialists and associates healthcare professionals a chance to hear from national and international experts on the latest prostate cancer diagnosis and management. This in-person only programme will be of interest to consultants, trainees of all grades, SAS clinicians and specialist nurses in urology, oncology, radiology and pathology.

RSM (Royal Society of Medicine) Tackling the Rise of Infections and Resistance in Urology

Save the date for this comprehensive all-day meeting addressing the growing challenge of infections in urology, antibiotic resistance, and antimicrobial stewardship. Sessions will cover diagnosis, epidemiology, emergency management, and prevention strategies. The programme will also explore the role of non-antibiotic...

The 5-Minute Urology Consult (Third Edition)

I suspect that if Dominic Corrigan (famous for the metaphorical escape route afforded to busy clinicians) was a urologist he would most certainly have had a copy of the The 5-Minute Urology Consult and would have then subsequently been famous...

Laparoscopic transposition of renal lower pole crossing vessels

The vascular hitch procedure for pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) was initially described by Hellstroem in1951 and has become popular again since the introduction of laparoscopy. There is still much controversy as to its efficiency. The authors of this paper analyse...

Ejaculatory dysfunction – too swift, too slow and the no-show

Timing is everything.’ Although an expression most frequently linked to comedy, timing also seems just as critical in the business of sexual climax. Indeed, many men worry about ejaculating. Too soon is embarrassing. Too slow is frustrating. And not ejaculating...

Metabolic stone disease for urology trainees

Urolithiasis continues to be a heavy burden on the worldwide medical infrastructure with an estimated 106 million cases recorded internationally in 2021 [1]. Whilst incidence rates have started to decline across Europe and high-income North America, there are emerging hotspots...

Minze Uroflow System

Minze Uroflow System with Bluetooth makes it possible for men, women and children with LUTs and bladder dysfunction to be assessed, diagnosed and monitored remotely in the comfort of their homes.

Testicular cancer: management of stage I seminoma

Introduction Testicular cancer is the most frequently occurring solid tumour in men between the ages of 15 and 34 years [1]. About 60% of cases are seminomas and approximately 70-80% of them have, at presentation, clinical stage I disease. This...