Perioperative Educational Interventions and Contemporary Sexual Function Outcomes of Radical Prostatectomy.

Introduction: Men undergoing prostatectomy can have unrealistic preoperative expectations regarding sexual function after surgery and may desire more education on recovery and symptom management.

Aim: To present contemporary data on recovery of sexual function after prostatectomy and characterize how it is impacted by perioperative patient educational interventions.

Methods: A comprehensive review of the English-language literature available by PubMed search.

Impact of Age and Comorbidities on Use of Sacral Neuromodulation.

Purpose: We investigated the influence of patient age on sacral nerve stimulation trial outcomes, device implantation and treatment durability.

Materials And Methods: We analyzed a database of all sacral nerve stimulation procedures performed between 2012 and 2014 at a high volume institution for associations of patient age with sacral nerve stimulation indication, trial stimulation success, device revision and device explantation.

Results: In a cohort of 356 patients those with nonobstructive urinary retention and urgency-frequency were younger than patients with urgency urinary incontinence.

Neural Explant Cultures from Xenopus laevis.

The complex process of axon guidance is largely driven by the growth cone, which is the dynamic motile structure at the tip of the growing axon. During axon outgrowth, the growth cone must integrate multiple sources of guidance cue information to modulate its cytoskeleton in order to propel the growth cone forward and accurately navigate to find its specific targets(1). How this integration occurs at the cytoskeletal level is still emerging, and examination of cytoskeletal protein and effector dynamics within the growth cone can allow the elucidation of these mechanisms.