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Tackling stones in children: is it difficult to crack on?

1 July 2015 | | URO - Endourology & Stones
The incidence of stone disease in the paediatric population has been increasing worldwide, particularly for the adolescent age group (12–17 years of age). In this article the authors discussed the evolutions of percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and ureteroscopy (URS) in children....

Urachal anomalies in children: surgical or conservative treatment?

1 May 2015 | | URO - Paediatrics
Urachal anomalies are rare with an incidence of 1:5000-8000 live births. There is still some controversy as to whether to treat them expectantly or surgically with published reports describing malignant changes in adulthood. These authors describe their retrospective series of...

The survival impact of neoadjuvant hormonal therapy before radical prostatectomy

1 September 2018 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
There is increasing evidence for the role of radical prostatectomy in select patients with T3-T4 prostate cancer (as part of multimodal therapy). This retrospective multicentre study explored the benefit of neoadjuvant hormonal therapy before radical prostatectomy specifically in patients with...
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Increased use of active surveillance for men with intermediate risk prostate cancer

3 September 2021 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
The optimal management of men with intermediate risk prostate cancer remains unclear and continues to be debated. The authors interrogate the US National Cancer Database for 176,122 men diagnosed with intermediate risk prostate cancer between 2010 and 2016. Of these...
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Fear and frustration among women with recurrent UTIs

5 January 2022 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
The risk of a women developing a urinary tract infection in her lifetime is over 50%, approximately 25% of which become recurrent (rUTIs). This study examined the viewpoints of women with rUTIs through six focus groups at a tertiary centre...

We are CPT accredited! C&G Medicare launching Pelvic Angel Training!

2 September 2020 | Research & Development
Pelvic health is essential for everyone to be able to live a good quality of life, without incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse and other complications deriving from poor pelvic floor stability.

Announcing a new specialist distributor of medical devices for prostate cancer

10 January 2022 | Contracts & Distributors, Research & Development
Healthcare Supply Solutions are a new distributor focussed on medical devices for the diagnosis and management of Prostate Cancer.

Congenital buried penis – an extremely rare entity

21 August 2024 | | URO - Paediatrics, URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Trauma & Emergency
Congenital non-visualisation of penis is a rare form of buried penis. It affects the functional and psychological behaviour of the affected child. Most of the cases in literature are secondary in nature like post circumcision, post trauma and due to...

Physiotherapy first for pelvic floor dysfunction

1 September 2015 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Urologic Oncology
Physiotherapy should be included in first-line management options for pelvic organ prolapse and urinary incontinence in women [1,2]. Additionally, referral to physiotherapy is widely practised for the management of urinary incontinence in men, faecal incontinence, defecation disorders and various pelvic...

The impact of menopause on bladder symptoms

11 July 2023 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology, URO - Infection
The menopause is a natural process of ageing when the ovaries completely stop producing reproductive hormones (oestrogen and other sex steroids), and there are no monthly periods for 12 consecutive months. It normally occurs between the ages of 45-55 years...

Benign upper tract abnormalities

6 November 2024 | | URO - Functional / Reconstructive Urology
Case 1 A 28-year-old lady has been referred to your clinic with right loin pain. She has no significant past medical history but mentions that she and her partner have been trying to get pregnant. She has an US renal...

Prostate cancer survivorship: a new path for uro-oncology

1 July 2015 | | URO - Urologic Oncology
Over two million people in England have a diagnosis of cancer [1]. Of this figure, over 250,000 have been diagnosed with prostate cancer [2]. However, during the next decade, a rapid increase in the number of new cancer diagnoses, as...