Comparison of Work Relative Value Units Assigned to Urological and Gynecological Surgical Procedures.

Introduction: We sought to determine if work relative value unit differences exist between analogous, sex-specific procedures.

Methods: Representatives from the AUA and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists independently reviewed the entire procedural code set and identified sex-specific procedures that had an analogous procedure in the opposite sex. These pairs were then evaluated and compared using current American Medical Association Relative Value Scale Update Committee methodology.

Robotic Sacral Colpopexy Using Autologous Fascia Lata Compared with Mesh.

The objective is to compare robotic sacral colpopexy (RSC) utilizing autologous fascia lata with RSC with synthetic mesh in the treatment of pelvic organ prolapse (POP). We performed a prospective nonrandomized case comparison trial at a single institution. We compared RSC utilizing either synthetic mesh or autologous fascia lata in women with symptomatic POP, stages II through IV.

HPV: diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.

Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the world. Almost 80% of the world's population is exposed by the age of 50. HPV can cause oropharyngeal, genital, and anal cancers.

Is liquid-based pap testing affected by water-based lubricant?

Objective: To estimate the effect of water-based lubricant on the liquid-based Pap test.

Methods: Two hundred women each had 2 simultaneous Pap test collections. One specimen was randomly contaminated with 0.

Intact genetic material is present in commercially processed cadaver allografts used for pubovaginal slings.

Purpose: We determined the presence, quantitated the concentration and assessed the length of DNA present in 4 commercially available human cadaver allografts.

Materials And Methods: We evaluated 10 tissue samples from each of 4 commercial sources of human allograft (Mentor Corp., Santa Barbara, California; Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation, Edison, New Jersey; Regeneration Technologies, Inc.