Purpose: To present our experience of laparoscopic ureteral reimplantation using intracorporeal ureteral tapering for management of distal ureteral stricture. Materials and Methods: Between April 2005 and October 2008, six patients, including 3 children and 3 adults, underwent laparoscopic modified Lich-Gregoir type extravesical ureteral reimplantation for distal ureteral stricture. Significant...

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of laparoscopic simple prostatectomy for large volume prostates. Materials and Methods: Between October 2007 and July 2009, laparoscopic simple prostatectomy was performed on 16 patients with the prostates over 80 mL. All the patients were operated with transvesical method. Peri-operative and 3rd postoperative month data were recorded and evaluated. Results:...

BACKGROUND Diabetes and urological diseases are widespread health problems, whose incidence increases with age. The aim of this observational, retrospective study was to analyze the particularities of urinary disorders, which appeared in patients with diabetes, admitted in a urology ward. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 6910 patients admitted in "Th. Burghele" Hospital from January 2013 to Ju...

The aim of the study was to review the epidemiology and prognosis of candidemia in a secondary hospital, and to examine the intra-hospital distribution of candidemia patients. Study design is a retrospective cohort study. Trough 2002-2012, 110 cases of candidemia were diagnosed, giving an incidence of 2, 6/100,000 citizens/year. Overall prognosis of candidemia was dismal, with a 30 days case fa...

background patients’ escape from hospital imposes a significant cost to patients as well as the health system. besides, for these patients, exposure to adverse events (such as suicide, self-harm, violence and harm to hospital reputation) are more likely to occur compared to others. the present study aimed to determine the characteristics of the absconding patients in a general hospital through ...

1Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen MC, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands 2Department of Urology, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal 3Department of Continence Medicine, The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo 113-8655, Japan 4Department of Urology, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, 840 SouthWood Street, Chicago, ...

Pradeep TYAGI,1∗ Yao-Chi CHUANG,2 Naoki YOSHIMURA,3 Jonathan KAUFMANN,4 and Michael B. CHANCELLOR1 1Department of Urology, William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI, U.S.A., 2Department of Urology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Taiwan, 3Department of Urology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A., ...

Address correspondence to Dr. Harold A. Frazier II, Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20037 USA NSQIP and urology outcomes Harold A. Frazier, II, MD Department of Urology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA Referring to the article publishe...

a Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Urology, Canakkale, Turkey b Inönü University, Medical Faculty, Department of Urology, Malatya, Turkey c Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Children Disease, Canakkale, Turkey d Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Medical Faculty, Department of Obstetric and Gynecology, Canakkale, Turkey e Canakkal...