A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing Telemedicine Versus In-Person Office Visits for the Follow-Up of Overactive Bladder.

Importance: Overactive bladder is a condition that may be ideally suited for the use of telemedicine because initial treatment options are behavioral modification and pharmacotherapy.

Objective: We sought to evaluate if there was an overall difference in patient follow-up rates between telemedicine and in-person visits.

Study Design: New patients presenting with overactive bladder from July 2020 to March 2021 were randomized into telemedicine and in-person visits groups.

Changes observed in prostate biopsy practices in an inner city hospital with a high risk patient population following the 2012 uspstf psa screening recommendations.

Introduction: We compared characteristics of patients undergoing prostate biopsy in a high-risk inner city population before and after the 2012 USPSTF recommendation against PSA based prostate cancer screening to determine its effect on prostate biopsy practices.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study including patients who received biopsies after an abnormal PSA measurement from October 2008-December 2015. Patients with previously diagnosed prostate cancer were excluded.

Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer in Patients With and Without a History of Pelvic Irradiation: Survival Outcomes and Diversion-related Complications.

Objective: To compare survival outcomes and diversion-related complications of patients with and without a history of pelvic irradiation who underwent radical cystectomy.

Patients And Methods: Three hundred sixty-four patients underwent radical cystectomy for bladder cancer (BCa) from July 2001 to September 2013. Thirty-seven patients (10%) had a history of pelvic irradiation, and 327 (90%) did not.

Recurrence patterns after open and robot-assisted radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

Background: Concerns remain whether robot-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) compromises survival because of inadequate oncologic resection or alteration of recurrence patterns.

Objective: To describe recurrence patterns following open radical cystectomy (ORC) and RARC.

Design, Setting, And Participants: Retrospective review of 383 consecutive patients who underwent ORC (n=120) or RARC (n=263) at an academic institution from July 2001 to February 2014.

ICl-induced intramolecular electrophilic cyclization of 1-[4'-methoxy(1,1'-biphenyl)2-yl]alkynones--a facile approach to spiroconjugated molecules.

Spiro compounds: An iodine monochloride-induced intramolecular cyclization of 1-[4'-methoxy(1,1'-biphenyl)2-yl]alkynones has been developed (see scheme). An electrophilic iodocyclization selectively takes place at the ipso position (versus the ortho electrophilic aromatic substitution) to afford 4'H-spiro(cyclohexa[2,5]diene-1,1'-naphthalene)-4,4'-diones, a new group of spiroconjugated compounds.