Water vapor thermal therapy for indwelling urinary catheter removal in frail patients.

Purpose: To report the efficacy and safety of water vapor thermal therapy to achieve catheter removal in frail patients with refractory acute urinary retention.

Methods: Data from consecutive frail patients with indwelling urinary catheter undergoing the Rezūm™ therapy (Boston Scientific Corporation, Marlborough, MA) at a single center between October 2017 and June 2021 were prospectively collected. The included patients were deemed unfit or at high risk of complications for conventional benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) surgery.

Recurrent bilateral Mycobacterium bovis necrotizing epididymitis: a case report.

Background: Mycobacterium bovis causing tuberculosis in animals is responsible for zoonotic tuberculosis in patients. Veterinary control measures and milk pasteurization has led to a significant decrease in human cases of M. bovis infections in developed countries.

Seminal vesicle invasion: what is the best adjuvant treatment after radical prostatectomy?

Objective: • To evaluate the biochemical-failure free survival according to different adjuvant treatments in patients who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP) with seminal vesicle invasion (SVI).

Patients And Methods: • Between 1994 and 2008, 4090 men underwent RP in nine centres. Of these, 310 men had a SVI.

[Evaluation of non-enhanced spiral CT in the assessment of renal colic: prospective series of 81 patients].

Objective: For many years, intravenous urography has been the first-line investigation for renal colic. Since the middle of the 1990s, non-enhanced spiral CT has become a more efficient, less invasive and less expensive alternative to IVU. The aim of this study was to compare non-enhanced spiral CT and IVU in the assessment of renal colic and to evaluate the possibility of exclusive CT assessment in this disease.