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BAUN Award Winners 2025
The team at Urology News would like to extend our warmest congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 BAUN Awards, who were presented with their prizes at a glittering ceremony in Edinburgh last November. Winners for 2025 Rachel Leaver...Prostate artery embolisation
Introduction Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a common condition associated with ageing, affects 50% of those between the ages of 50 and 60 years, and as many as 90% of those older than 80 years. BPH is characterised by unregulated, benign...
UTI and VUR in children with mild antenatal hydronephrosis
This paper describes a retrospective analysis of 760 (608 males, 162 females) patients identified with mild antenatal hydronephrosis (defined by an anteroposterior (AP) pelvic diameter of 7-10mm in the third trimester and persistent postnatal dilation) looking at the incidence of...
Intravesical instillation of chemotherapy before radical surgery for upper UTUC
Upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) is a rare but increasingly prevalent form of urothelial cancer, accounting for 5–10% of cases, with an annual incidence of two to three cases per 100,000 individuals in Western Europe. Radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with...A guide for the assessment and management of post-obstructive diuresis
Acute urinary retention is a common condition encountered in the emergency situation and is initially managed by urethral catheterisation. This is often performed by nursing staff or junior doctors. Post-obstructive diuresis (POD) is a specific entity which may occur post...Functional and reconstructive urology
Case 1 A 45-year-old female presents with a one-year history of urinary leakage, especially worse on coughing. She is otherwise well, with no co-morbidities. What is the International Continence Society (ICS) definition of stress urinary incontinence (SUI)? What are the...Practising surgery in a war zone: an interview with Dr Volodymyr Melnyk
It is now nine months since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine commenced in late February 2022, with Putin announcing a “special military operation” to “denazify and demilitarise” Ukraine. The rest of the world, however, saw it for what it...Using change theories can help nurses implement better care in prostate cancer
Nurses can help support change in prostate cancer care by understanding change management and models and provide leadership in improving prostate cancer care. An important part of being able to lead change is to understand change theories such as the...
Does one-year decline in eGFR after radical nephrectomy and in matched living donors match?
In the May issue of BJUI Miki N Hew et al. discuss differences in renal function evolution between patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) submitted to radical nephrectomy (RN) and living kidney donors matched for age and gender. They also...
