RENAL COLIC MANAGEMENT. Renal colic is a common reason for consultation or emergency room visit. In most of the cases, it is caused by the migration of a urinary calculus and the resulting ureteral obstruction.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess the patient experience and satisfaction after the implementation in routine of a personalized, digital programme before and after same-day discharge (SDD) robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).
Methods: The study is a pre/post-interventional, multi-surgeon, unicentre, prospective study. All consecutive patients undergoing SDD RARP were included during a 6-month period.
Background: Recent guidelines favor transperineal (TP) prostate biopsies over the transrectal (TR) approach due to a reduced sepsis risk. Yet, evidence from controlled trial comparing both approaches within the MRI-targeted pathway for significant prostate cancer (PCa) detection is lacking.
Objective: To compare the significant PCa detection rate between magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-targeted TR and TP approaches in biopsy-naïve patients.
Introduction: Radical cystectomy (RC) remains a surgery with important morbidity despite technical advances. Our aim was to determine the impact on outcomes and costs of robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) with full intracorporeal diversion.
Material And Methods: We retrospectively included 196 consecutive patients undergone RC for bladder cancer between 2017 and 2022.
Prehabilitation programs play a key role in optimizing patient experiences and outcomes after surgery. However, there are few data on robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, and prehabilitation programs may be challenging to launch and maintain over time for every patient. Here we report our 5-yr experience of an on-site prehabilitation program and its impact on patient and hospital outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To assess the impact of a routine, on-site, 1-day prehabilitation (PreHab) programme on peri-operative and continence recovery after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).
Materials And Methods: All 303 consecutive RARPs performed between March 2018 and February 2020 since the routine implementation of PreHab were included in our study. PreHab was carried out according to the availability of the 1-day programme before the planned date of surgery (two sessions per month including four patients per session).
Introduction: Sertoliform cystadenoma is a very rare, benign lesion of the rete-testis difficult to distinguish from other malignancies of the testicle.
Case Presentation: We present the case of a 42-year-old male who presented with a right testicular mass, asymptomatic for 1 year. Clinical examination revealed a palpable, painless, and well-delimited right testicular superior pole nodule.
Unlabelled: Over the past decade, prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis drastically evolved from systematic biopsies (SBs) to multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) and targeted biopsy (TB), which have emerged as powerful imaging tools for diagnosis, staging, and preoperative planning. MRI and TB should now be widely adopted for assessing prognosis and be incorporated into predictive models. To date, the standard intermediate risk classification (IRC) defined unfavourable and favourable disease with clinical information and overall biopsy data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The increasing efficiency of the different lasers and the improved performance of endoscopic devices have led to smaller stone fragments that impact the accuracy of microscopic evaluation (morphological and infrared). Before the stone destruction, the urologist has the opportunity to analyze the stone and the papillary abnormalities endoscopically (endoscopic papillary recognition (EPR) and endoscopic stone recognition (ESR)). Our objective was to evaluate the value for those endoscopic descriptions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess the proportion and risk factors for downgrading and reclassification to favorable disease in patients having high-grade (HG) prostate cancer (PCa) pattern on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-targeted-biopsy (TB).
Methods: From a radical prostatectomy (RP) cohort, we included patients with pre-biopsy positive MRI and HG [defined by Grade Group (GG) ≥ 3] PCa on MRI-TB. All patients also underwent concomitant systematic biopsy (SB).
(1) Background: no study has compared outcomes of same day discharge (SDD) versus inpatient robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in homogenous cohorts. Our aim was to compare perioperative outcomes and urinary continence recovery between SDD and inpatient RARP in contemporary, comparable patients. (2) Methods: we included consecutive patients undergoing RARP between 2018 and 2020 ( 376).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To improve endoscopic recognition of the most frequently encountered urinary stone morphologies for a better aetiological approach in lithiasis by urologists.
Materials And Methods: An expert urologist intraoperatively and prospectively (between June 2015 and June 2018) examined the surface, the section, and the nucleus of all encountered kidney stones. Fragmented stones were subsequently analysed by a biologist based on both microscopic morphological (i.
Background: After radical prostatectomy (RP), biochemical recurrence (BCR) is associated with an increased risk of developing distant metastasis and prostate cancer specific and overall mortality.
Methods: The two-centre study included 521 consecutive patients undergoing RP for positive pre-biopsy magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and pathologically proven prostate cancer (PCa), after which a combination scheme of fusion-targeted biopsy (TB) and systematic biopsy was performed. We assessed correlations between MRI characteristics, International Society of Urological Pathology (ISUP) grade group in TB, and outcomes after RP.
Background: An enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) pathway has shown benefit in oncologic surgery. However, literature is scarce regarding the impact of this pathway, alone or combined with prehabilitation (PreHab) programs, on outcomes after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP).
Methods: Included in this study were 507 consecutive patients undergoing RARP from 2014 to 2019.
Background: To compare overall survival (OS) outcomes in pN1-3 disease at the time of radical cystectomy (RC) for muscle invasive bladder according to the neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) status.
Materials And Methods: This multicenter study included 450 consecutive patients undergoing RC for muscle-invasive urothelial bladder cancer with pN1-3 pM0 disease from 2010 to 2019. NAC consisted in platinum-based chemotherapy.
Purpose: To assess the intercenter reproducibility of software-based fusion targeted biopsy (TB) for grade-group assessment and pretherapeutic evaluation of highly suspicious MRI lesions.
Patients And Methods: In this study, were included 380 consecutive patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) after prostate cancer diagnosis and a prebiopsy MRI showing Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PIRADS) score 4 or 5 lesions. All patients underwent systematic biopsies (SB) combined with software-based fusion TB in the 2 centers.
Introduction: To assess the use of the 2016 proposed classification of the renal papillary abnormalities during flexible ureteroscopy that aims to standardize their description.
Patients And Methods: We performed a prospective monocentric single operator collection of the data using this classification during 88 consecutive flexible ureteroscopies required for renal stones treatment. Outcome measurements and statistical analysis: data of stones analysis (microscopy and infrared spectrophotometry) and of serum and urines biochemical samples have been compared with the results of the classified endoscopic descriptions.
Purpose: To assess the feasibility of same-day discharge (SDD) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) in the context of enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) and prehabilitation pathways.
Materials And Methods: For 1 year, we prospectively assessed the feasibility of SDD RARP in the context of ERAS and prehabilitation pathways. SDD patients were compared to overnight patients operated during the same period by the same surgeon.
Background: To study the impact of MRI characteristics and of targeted biopsy (TB) core number on the final grade group (GG) prediction.
Materials And Methods: The cohort was 478 consecutive patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) after positive mpMRI (multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging) followed by fusion TB. Endpoints were the upgrading and concordance rates between TB and RP specimens.
Introduction: Treatment decision-making for intermediate-risk prostate cancer (CaP) is mainly based on grade and tumor involvement on systematic biopsy. We aimed to assess the added value of multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) and targeted biopsy (TB) features for predicting final pathology and for improving the well-established favourable/unfavourable systematic biopsy-based sub-classification.
Materials And Methods: From a prospective database of 377 intermediate risk CaP cases, we evaluated the performance of the standard intermediate risk classification (IRC), and the predictive factors for unfavourable disease on final pathology aiming to build a new model.