The shape of the uroflowmetrogram reflects voiding conditions. Using a voiding simulation, we examined whether the urethral loss coefficient (LC) calculated from the approximated uroflowmetrogram correlates with parameters that regulate the shape of the uroflowmetrogram. A total of 161 normal and abnormal uroflowmetrograms were used. Normal female subjects and patients before and after transure...

Ankylosing spondylitis poses several anesthetic challenges ranging from difficult airway to neuraxial blockade. Limited cervical spine mobility, restricted opening of the temporomandibular joint, and cardiorespiratory compromise makes anesthesia preferred technique in these patients. However due ossification interspinous ligament ligamentum flavum, also syndesmophytes between adjacent vertebrae...

PURPOSE This study examined the sparing effect of sufentanil on the median effective concentration (EC₅₀) of epidural ropivacaine in elderly patients undergoing elective transurethral resection of prostate (TURP). MATERIALS AND METHODS This was a prospective randomized double-blind dose-response study. Fifty eight elderly patients with American Society of Anesthesiologists physical status I-I...

Aim: to improve the outcomes of surgical treatment benign prostatic hyperplasia by bipolar transurethral resection based on personalized approach. Materials and methods. Surgical prostate was carried out in 50 patients: approach, that is extensive preoperative preparation, adopted 25 cases, standard procedure implemented rest cases. Functional were assessed 1, 3 6 months aft er surgery, taking ...

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Twenty years of Italian outdoor investigations on closed photobioreactors are discussed in this review. Many photobioreactor designs have been projected; some have been built, tested and patented. The Italian research approach from tubular (single tube and traditional loop) to flat and column and again to tubular photobioreactors (coil and loops) has improved microalgal yield. It increased from...

Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) surgery has been increasingly used in urology because its advantages for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgical treatment recent years. But, there are insufficient data literature about true frequency incidental presence adenoma within bladder following HoLEP surgery. The case is here presented a patient who underwent 5 years previously, th...

Introduction Robot-assisted radical cystectomy for bladder cancer that develops after curative treatment prostate has not yet been reported. Case presentation A 65-year-old man underwent prostatectomy and received salvage radiotherapy his postoperative prostate-specific antigen level failed to decrease. Nine years radiotherapy, local recurrence lung/bone metastases were observed, he was started...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) has long been held as the gold standard for treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH); however, there has been significant innovation in other less invasive alternative treatments for BPH in recent years. BPH treatment guidelines now recommend minimally invasive therapy be considered as a treatment option alongside TURP and ...