Overactive bladder symptoms in patients undergoing rigid and flexible cystoscopy.

Purpose: To evaluate overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms in patients undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy. Overall changes in the entire study population were assessed, as well as broken down by various subgroups.

Methods: A prospective multi-center study among consecutive 450 adults undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy was conducted.

Anxiety and depression analyses of patients undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy.

Purpose: To prospectively assess anxiety and depression in patients undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy.

Methods: Patients presenting for outpatient diagnostic cystoscopy were recruited from four European urological departments. Anxiety and depression were assessed with the 'Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale' (HADS) before cystoscopy and after 1 week.

Prospective, multi-institutional pain assessment of 150 women undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy.

Background: The aim of this study was to prospectively assess women's pain during rigid and flexible diagnostic cystoscopy and afterwards during a one-week follow-up.

Methods: Prospective, multi-institutional trial analyzing numeric rating scales (NRS) of women undergoing diagnostic cystoscopy. Pain categories: no (0 points), mild (1-3), moderate (4-6) and severe pain (7-10).

Prospective multi-institutional study analyzing pain perception of flexible and rigid cystoscopy in men.

Objective: To evaluate pain perception in men undergoing flexible or rigid diagnostic cystoscopy.

Methods: This is a prospective multi-institutional analysis of men undergoing cystoscopy in 4 European departments of urology. Pain perception was assessed with an 11-point numeric rating scale.

Impact of the use of bowel for urinary diversion on perioperative complications and 90-day mortality in patients aged 75 years or older.

Objective: A potential strategy to decrease the high complication rate of radical cystectomy (RC) in the elderly is to avoid the use of bowel for urinary diversion. The aim of this study was to address this issue in a multicentre study of patients aged ≥ 75 years.

Patients And Methods: We performed a retrospective, multicentre study of a consecutive series of patients aged ≥ 75 years who underwent RC for muscle-invasive bladder cancer between 2006 and 2010.

Perioperative complications and 90-day mortality of radical cystectomy in the elderly (75+): a retrospective, multicentre study.

Objective: To assess perioperative complications and 90-day mortality of radical cystectomy (RC) in elderly patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC).

Materials And Methods: This is a retrospective, multicentre (n = 11) study of a consecutive series of patients ≥75 years who underwent RC for MIBC between 2006 and 2010. Medical, surgical and wound complications were graded according to the modified Clavien-Dindo classification.

Extranodal extension is a powerful prognostic factor in bladder cancer patients with lymph node metastasis.

Background: Lymph node metastasis (LNM) is the most powerful pathologic predictor of disease recurrence after radical cystectomy (RC). However, the outcomes of patients with LNM are highly variable.

Objective: To assess the prognostic value of extranodal extension (ENE) and other lymph node (LN) parameters.

Prognostic value of extranodal extension and other lymph node parameters in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma.

Purpose: We assessed the prognostic value of extranodal extension and other lymph node parameters in a large multicenter cohort of patients with lymph node metastasis after radical nephroureterectomy.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively analyzed the records of 222 patients with lymph node metastasis treated with radical nephroureterectomy for upper tract urothelial carcinoma without neoadjuvant therapy. Each lymph node metastasis was microscopically evaluated for extranodal extension.

Impact of gender on bladder cancer incidence, staging, and prognosis.

Introduction: While patient gender is an important factor in the clinical decision-making for the management of bladder cancer, there are minimal evidence-based recommendations to guide health care professionals. Recent epidemiologic and translational research has shed some light on the complex relationship between gender and bladder cancer. Our aim was to review the literature on the effect of gender on bladder cancer incidence, biology, mortality, and treatment.

Ureteral complications with operative gynecologic laparoscopy.

Objective: The study assessed the incidence, diagnosis, management, and causes of ureteral injuries during major laparoscopic operations at our department in a 6-year period.

Study Design: The study was a chart review of 790 consecutive major laparoscopic procedures in 711 patients (mean age 37.4 +/- 11.

The use of polydimethylsiloxane in the treatment of incontinence after radical prostatectomy.

Objective: To report the results of transurethral submucosal injection therapy of polydimethylsiloxane (PDS) to treat incontinence after radical prostatectomy (RP).

Patients And Methods: Since 1993, about 80 retropubic RPs have been carried out at our institution each year. Severe post-operative incontinence occurred in six patients, with a mean duration of incontinence after RP of 28 months.

Endovascular treatment of renal artery aneurysms with conventional non-detachable microcoils and Guglielmi detachable coils.

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of endovascular occlusion of true renal artery aneurysms (RAAs) with conventional non-detachable microcoils (NDCs) and Guglielmi detachable coils (GDCs).

Patients And Methods: Over a 5-year period, 12 RAAs were treated by endovascular selective embolization. Four RAAs were occluded using NDCs and eight were treated with GDCs.

Multiphasic helical CT of the kidney: increased conspicuity for detection and characterization of small (< 3-cm) renal masses.

Purpose: To evaluate the potential of thin-section multiphasic helical computed tomography (CT) in the detection and characterization of small (< 3.0-cm) renal masses.

Materials And Methods: Identically collimated helical CT of the kidney was performed before and after administration of contrast material in 93 patients with small renal masses.

[Indications and results of ex-vivo surgery of the kidney].

394 renal transplantations have been performed in our unit between 1974 and 1995. In all instances extra-corporal surgical procedures on the graft, its vessels and, in rare instances, on the collecting system were necessary. The surgical procedures, which took up to 90 minutes on the work-bench, ranged from repair of minor iatrogenic vascular injuries to major vascular reconstructions, in order to facilitate the subsequent implantation of the graft.

[Amputation of the leg in arterial occlusive disease].

The until recently held opinion that above-knee amputations were the method of choice for treating stage IV chronic occlusive arterial disease, is outdated. Determining the appropriate level for amputation in patients with peripheral arterial obstruction is difficult, and requires much experience. Successful fitting of a prosthetic device and subsequent rehabilitation depend not only on the patient's bodily and emotional reserves, but also on the operative technique employed.