External validation of the Gleason grade group system in Argentinian patients that underwent surgery for prostate cancer.

Introduction: The aim of this article was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Gleason grade groups (GGG) system on a group of Argentinian patients with prostate cancer (PC) who underwent radical prostatectomy (RP).

Material And Methods: We retrospectively studied 262 patients who underwent RP between 1996 and 2014. To determine the performance and validity of the GGG system, a Kaplan-Meier analysis and multivariate analysis with Cox proportional method were performed to evaluate biochemical recurrence, distance metastases and specific cancer mortality.

Clinical score predictive of abdominal leak point pressure (ALPP) <60 cm H2O in the urodynamics study of women with stress urinary incontinence.

Objective: The aim of this study was to perform a score predictive of ALPP <60 cm H2O from clinical factors in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Study Design: We performed a descriptive and observational study of women referred for a urodynamic study for stress urinary incontinence. Patients were divided into three groups: ALPP: >90 cm H2O, between 60 and 90 cm H2O and <60 cm H2O.

[Is there a correlation between abdominal leak pressure point, incontinence severity and quality of life in patients with stress urinary incontinence?].

Objectives: To evaluate if there is a correlation between the abdominal leak pressure point (ALPP) of the urodynamic study and several tools to evaluate severity and quality of life associated to stress urine incontinence (SUI).

Methods: Prospective correlation study of women referred to urodynamic study for stress urinary incontinence in Centro Urológico Profesor Bengió between September 2014 and October 2015. Anamnesis, physical examination (where the SUI was demonstrated), ICIQSF urine incontinence questionnaire and incontinence impact questionnaire (IIQ-7) were performed to every patient.

[Is CAPRA-S score a valid tool in our environment to predict biochemical recurrence, metastasis and death after radical prostatectomy?].

Objectives: To perform an external validation of CAPRA-S Score to determine prediction of biochemical recurrence, metastasis and death by PCa after RP in Argentinian population.

Methods: 216 patients were studied. The probability of the score to predict biochemical recurrence after RP was analyzed by the Cox proportional method.

[Predictive score of success adapted to our environment to improve results of extracorporeal lithotripsy].

Objective: To present a predictive tool of success of ESWL adapted to our environment.

Methods: We performed a retrospective, descriptive and analytical study of patients with renal and upper ureteral stones whom underwent ESWL with DUET MAGNA lithotripter between January 2014 and March 2015. We included 114 patients in whom demographics and CT scan characteristics were studied.