Giant or massive bladder stone is a rare condition that is usually seen in men with an underlying urologic problem. Hereby we report a large stone in a healthy young female without any predisposing factor and with the minimal urologic complaint.

Purpose: The aging of the population leads to increases in the prevalence of symptomatic urologic diseases. The aim of this study is the analysis of pre-operative risk factors and postoperative complications in patients over the age of 60 years undergoing elective laparoscopic urologic surgery. Patients and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted of 113 patients 60 years of age or older wh...

tau.amegroups.com © Translational Andrology and Urology. All rights reserved. Professor Jay Simhan (Figure 1) is Director of Urologic Trauma, Reconstruction and Prosthetics for the Fox Chase/ Einstein Urologic Institute and an Assistant Professor of Urology at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. He is a member of the American Urologic Association, the Mid-Atlantic section of the AUA, the Philadelphia ...

We sought to describe the incidence rate of the urologic disease in the Korean military by reviewing diagnoses made in active duty soldiers from 2008 to 2013. A total of 72,248 first visits were generated in the Defense Medical Statistics Information System (DMSIS) with its gradually increasing trend over 6 years. A sharp increase of first visit was observed after implementation of the regular ...

EDITORIAL article Front. Urol., 30 March 2023Sec. Urologic Oncology Volume 3 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fruro.2023.1172370

As our population ages, the number of patients presenting to their primary care physicians with urologic problems is significantly increasing. Urologic issues are the third most common type of complaint in patients 65 yr of age or older and account for at least a part of 47% of office visits.1 One of the most predominant urologic problems in elderly persons, and the focus of this chapter, is lo...

This study was designed to estimate the burden of urologic diseases in the Islamic Republic of Iran as a practical method for defining public health priorities. Using World Health Organization guidelines for national burden of disease studies, 6 steps were performed: selecting diseases to include; dynamic modelling of diseases; gathering data about urologic diseases; computing the local disabil...

Cytochrome P450 2E1 (CYP2E1) is involved in the metabolic activation of various carcinogens. CYP2E1 RsaI/PstI polymorphism has been identified in urologic cancer patients, while studies of the polymorphism have shown inconclusive trends in the risk of urologic cancers. Therefore, we performed this systematic review to provide a complete picture and conducted a meta-analysis to derive a precise ...

the overall rate of atrial pacing lead dislodgement is estimated to be about 3%. these leads are generally repositioned via a second operation through opening the pacemaker pocket. some operators have introduced percutaneous techniques using snare system or deflectable catheters for this purpose. in this article we present our experience with five cases of percutaneous lead repositioning. three...