Urinary reabsorption in the rat kidney by anticholinergics.

Anticholinergics, therapeutic agents for overactive bladder, are clinically suggested to reduce urine output. We investigated whether this effect is due to bladder or kidney urine reabsorption. Various solutions were injected into the bladder of urethane-anesthetized SD rats.

Duration of smoking cessation is negatively associated with the magnitude of chronic prostatic inflammation and storage dysfunction in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of smoking and the benefit of smoking cessation on lower urinary tract function and prostatic inflammation in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Methods: The medical records of 118 benign prostatic hyperplasia patients who underwent transurethral prostatic surgery between 2006 and 2016 were analyzed. Their smoking history was confirmed.

Remarkable effect of presurgical nivolumab on originally inoperable papillary renal cell carcinoma with tumor thrombus in inferior vena cava.

For the long-term survival of a patient with renal cell carcinoma and a vena cava tumor thrombus, total resection is desired: inoperable patients are sometimes treated with drugs. The effect of the presurgical use of nivolumab, an anti-programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) antibody drug, has been described. Our patient had inoperable renal cancer with an inferior vena cava tumor thrombus.

Low and high body mass index values are associated with female nocturia.

Aims: We evaluated the relationship between body mass index (BMI), including low BMI, and nocturia in Japanese women.

Methods: We collected data on 18 952 women who participated in a multiphasic health screening in Fukui, Japan, in 2006. The participants were asked to report any current or previous disease.