Scrotal ultrasonographic findings in obese infertile patients and their correlations to semen and hormonal profile.

Objective: The aim of this prospective study was to compare scrotal ultrasonographic findings in obese and normal weight infertile men and correlate these findings with semen parameters and hormonal profile.

Material And Methods: A total of 188 men presented for infertility evaluation were included in this study. They were divided according to body mass indices into obese (n=96) and normal weight infertile patients (n=92).

Subject-Controlled, On-demand, Dorsal Genital Nerve Stimulation to Treat Urgency Urinary Incontinence; a Pilot.

Objectives: To evaluate the effect of subject-controlled, on-demand, dorsal genital nerve (DGN) stimulation on non-neurogenic urgency urinary incontinence (UUI) in a domestic setting.

Materials And Methods: Non-neurogenic patients >18 years with overactive bladder symptoms and UUI were included. Exclusion criteria were mainly stress urinary incontinence.

Imaging assessments of lower urinary tract dysfunctions: Future steps.

Urodynamic tests are the standard diagnostic method for lower urinary tract dysfunctions (LUTD). However, these tests are invasive. The current review describes the noninvasive imaging techniques that have been used to monitor LUTD.

Near-infrared spectroscopy of the urinary bladder during voiding in men with lower urinary tract symptoms: a preliminary study.

Objectives: To determine the difference in response of NIRS of the bladder during voiding between men with and without BOO.LUTS.

Methods: A prospective, case series, study included 36 men with LUTS.

Dorsal genital nerve stimulation in patients with detrusor overactivity: a systematic review.

This study evaluates the outcome of trials to stimulate the dorsal genital nerve (DGN) in patients with lower urinary tract dysfunction. The aim of most studies was to suppress detrusor overactivity in patients with overactive bladder (OAB) syndrome by DGN stimulation. A literature search was performed using Pub Med, Web of Science, and Scopus databases (1980 to April 2012) for clinical trials of DGN stimulation in patients with detrusor overactivity.

Feasibility of noninvasive near-infrared spectroscopy to diagnose detrusor overactivity.

Introduction: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an optical technology able to detect the hemodynamic changes in biological tissues. Our objective was to determine the feasibility of applying NIRS in the noninvasive diagnosis of detrusor overactivity (DO).

Patients And Methods: Comparative analysis was performed on 39 involuntary detrusor contractions (IDC) from 23 filling cystometries with simultaneous noninvasive NIRS of the bladder in 14 patients with DO.

Non-invasive techniques in the diagnosis of bladder storage disorders.

Aims: To review clinical studies thus have been conducted to develop non-invasive diagnostic tools in the storage phase of the micturition cycle.

Methods: Pub Med and Web of Science searches were carried out. The search covered the published data of non-invasive diagnostic techniques for detrusor overactivity (DO) and/or low compliance bladder in patients with urinary storage symptoms.

Near-infrared spectroscopy: a novel, noninvasive, diagnostic method for detrusor overactivity in patients with overactive bladder symptoms--a preliminary and experimental study.

Background: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an optical technology. It detects the hemodynamic changes in tissues via noninvasive measurement of changes in the concentration of tissue chromophores such as oxyhemoglobin (O(2)Hb) and deoxyhemoglobin (HHb). Involuntary bladder contractions may cause changes detectable by NIRS.