Publications by authors named "Ibrahim Fathi Ghalayini"
Objective: To assess the feasibility of repeated sperm recovery in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA), as little is known about the extraction rate in repeated microdissection testicular sperm extraction (microTESE) in these patients.
Patients And Methods: A total of 134 men with NOA had their first sperm recovery between January 2013 and February 2020. Repeated microTESE had been done mostly for patients with a successful initial retrieval.
Objectives: The most common indication for treatment of varicocele is still male subfertility. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of infertility duration on semen parameters and spontaneous pregnancy rate after varicocelectomy.
Materials And Methods: The medical records of 183 infertile patients with clinical varicocele were retrospectively reviewed.
Background: We compared the efficacy of microdissection testicular sperm extraction (microdissection TESE) and conventional TESE in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA) and related the positive sperm recovery to certain variables: follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) levels, testicular volume and histology.
Methods: Sperm retrieval rates (SRR) in patients with NOA who underwent microdissection TESE (n = 65) or conventional TESE (n = 68) were compared and related to the different variables.
Results: SRR by microdissection TESE (56.
This work was conducted to evaluate the safety and efficacy of emergency ureteroscopic lithotripsy in patients with ureteral stones. From May 2003 to December 2010, 244 patients (184 men and 60 women, mean age 45.6 ± 12.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To evaluate the relationship between urodynamic detrusor overactivity (DO) and overactive bladder (OAB) symptoms in men and women.
Methods: We reviewed the records of adult males and females who attended a tertiary referral center for urodynamic evaluation of OAB syndrome symptoms with the presence or absence of DO. DO was calculated for symptoms alone or in combination.
Objective: To assess the effects of two different doses of botulinum toxin A (Dysport: 500 and 1,000 IU) injected repeatedly into the bladder for the treatment of neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO) in terms of safety, durability, and improvement of continence status and urodynamic parameters.
Patients And Methods: In this study we analyzed the effects of successive doses of 500 or 1,000 IU of Dysport, endoscopically injected into the detrusor muscle. Clinical, urodynamic, and satisfaction assessments were performed at baseline and 6 weeks after each injection.
Purpose: To assess and compare the efficacy of botulinum-A toxin (BTX-A) injections into the detrusor in idiopathic and neurogenic detrusor overactivity (IDO and NDO) resistant to anticholinergic treatment with respect to patient satisfaction.
Patients And Methods: In a prospective study, 16 patients with IDO and 14 with NDO resistant to anticholinergic treatment were injected with 500 U of Dysport into the detrusor. Clinical, urodynamic, and satisfaction assessments were performed at baseline and after BTX-A injections.
Objective: To review and evaluate patients with a clinicopathological diagnosis of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis (XGP) with emphasis on the diagnostic methods and the effect of socioeconomic status on disease severity.
Methods: Data compiled from the previous history of the patients, clinical, laboratory, radioimaging findings, preoperative, operative, histopathological diagnosis and postoperative follow-up period were analysed. On the basis of presentation, XGP was classified as complicated and simple.
Objective: To determine whether a preliminary period of clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC) before transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) improves bladder contractility and surgical outcome in men with chronic urinary retention (CUR), and whether pressure-flow studies (PFS) before TURP predict the outcome.
Patients And Methods: The study was a two-centre, pragmatic and randomized trial. Included were 41 men scheduled for TURP with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), an International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) of > 7, benign prostatic enlargement and a persistent postvoid residual urine volume (PVR) of > 300 mL.
Aim: To evaluate the diagnostic value of the 10 systematic transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy compared with the sextant biopsy technique for patients with suspected prostate cancer.
Methods: One hundred and fifty-two patients with suspected prostate cancer were included in the study. Patients were entered in the study because they presented with high levels of prostate specific antigen (PSA) (over 4 ng/mL) and/or had undergone an abnormal digital rectal examination (DRE).
Objectives: To first categorize a series of nephrectomies according to underlying pathology, as practised in a major general hospital in the north of Jordan, and then compare the results with published figures for Western countries. Also, to create standards for future evaluation of nephrectomies performed by laparoscopy.
Methods: The hospital and pathological records of 423 consecutive nephrectomies performed at Princess Basma Teaching Hospital in the north of Jordan during the period of 1991 to 2000 were reviewed.