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Fluoroquinolone resistant rectal colonisation predicts risk of infectious complications after TRPB

1 March 2015 | | URO - Basic Science Research
Transrectal prostate biopsy (TRPB) has been associated with increased risk of infection between 3.6-5% and sepsis rates of 0.3-3.1% mainly due to fluoroquinolone resistance (FQR). At present, FQ antibiotic prophylaxis is utilised commonly across North America and Europe but due...

Prostatic artery embolisation – an option for select BPO patients

1 November 2014 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
Few proponents of prostatic artery embolisation (PAE) regard it as a potential standard in future for benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) / benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) treatment. Present guidelines from the National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE) and the...

Curing pure CIS with radical surgery: lessons learned

1 September 2014 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
As carcinoma in situ (CIS) theoretically has no ability to invade or metastasise, performing radical cystectomy for CIS-only disease should be curative. In this single centre review over 37 years, 1964 patients undergoing cystectomy were analysed with 52 undergoing surgery...

Can antibiotics reduce ‘unnecessary’ prostate biopsies?

1 March 2014 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
With numerous factors capable of influencing prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels and therefore the likelihood of biopsy, this multi-centred randomised controlled trial (RCT) was designed to see if two weeks of ciprofloxacin compared to placebo would significantly reduce PSA levels...

Laborie: Advanced Multi-Channel UDS: Taking your BPH BPO Care to the Next Level two part webinar (Thur 17 Oct & Thur 31 Oct)

17 October 2024
This two-part webinar series, led by Dr. Wayne Kuang, Founder of ManVsProstate Crusade, will discover how multi-channel advanced urodynamics allows for Better Personalized Healthcare for patients with BPH BPO. Get your questions answered at the open Q&A session with our expert presenter. Please note this is a two part webinar.

APAM (Association of Physicians of Great Britain and Ireland) 118th Annual Meeting 2025

3 April 2025 -4 April 2025
Welcome to APAM 2025 - What Awaits? APAM 2025, the 118th Annual Meeting of the AoPGBI, will take place on 3–4 April 2025 at the Royal College of Physicians in London. This prestigious event will bring together leading clinicians, researchers,...

BAUN Day Summer Educational Event 2025

6 June 2025
Attend the BAUN Day Educational Event on the 6th of June. The day incorporates an educational study day and the national BAUN Day - A Day to Celebrate Urology Nurses! If you are early in your urological nursing career, the...

In conversation with Paula Allchorne

10 March 2022 | URO - Core Urology
We were delighted to catch up with Paula Allchorne, Chair of the European Association of Urology Nurses (EAUN) about her career in urological nursing and her plans for the association. Can you tell us a little bit about what led...

Functional Urology Issue II

To skip directly to features, click the links below: Welcome to Functional Urology Issue II - by Nikesh Thiruchelvam What’s new in neuromodulation for urological practice? - by Alejandro Mercado-Campero and Mahreen Pakzad Overview of the assessment and management of...

The stonecutters of 17th Century London

1 July 2015 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the Museum of Urology, hosted on the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last article I told you about the prostatic punch. If you...

From nursery rhyme to science

1 May 2014 | | URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Technology
In this series of articles I am going to show you some of the exhibits contained in the BAUS Virtual Museum of the History of Urology which is part of the BAUS website (www.baus.org.uk). In the last two articles I...

Technology – Part 3

1 January 2015 | | URO - Andrology, URO - Basic Science Research, URO - Endourology & Stones, URO - Infection, URO - Neurourology, URO - Paediatric Urology, URO - Core Urology, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Technology, URO - Trauma & Emergency, URO - Urologic Oncology, URO - Uroradiology
Case 1 Figure A. Figure B. What is shown in figures A and B? What is the diameter of each scope? What is the working channel size of each? What are the advantages of a digital versus optic flexible ureteroscope?...