ICS-SUFU standard: Theory, terms, and recommendations for pressure-flow studies performance, analysis, and reporting. Part 2: Analysis of PFS, reporting, and diagnosis.

Aims: The Working Group (WG), initiated by the International Continence Society (ICS) Standardisation Steering Committee and supported by the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction, has revised the ICS Standard for pressure-flow studies of 1997.

Methods: Based on the ICS standard for developing evidence-based standards, the WG developed this new ICS standard in the period from May 2020 to December 2022. A draft was posted on the ICS website in December 2022 to facilitate public discussion and the comments received have been incorporated into this final release.

ICS-SUFU standard: Theory, terms, and recommendations for pressure-flow studies performance, analysis, and reporting. Part 1: Background theory and practice.

Aims: The working group (WG) initiated by the International Continence Society Standardization Steering Committee and supported by the Society of Urodynamics, Female Pelvic Medicine and Urogenital Reconstruction has revised the (1997) ICS Standard for pressure flow studies.

Methods: Based on the ICS standard for developing evidence-based standards, the WG developed this new ICS standard in the period from May 2020 to December 2022. A draft was posted on the ICS website in January 2023 to facilitate public discussion and the comments received have been incorporated into this final release.

Defining bladder outlet obstruction and detrusor underactivity in females with overactive bladder: Are we forgetting about the free uroflowmetry?

Introduction: Both detrusor underactivity (DU) and bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) can coexist in patients with overactive bladder. Definitions of both DU and BOO are based on pressure-flow study (PFS) data. However, invasive urodynamics study can differ from a natural micturition, in fact, discrepancies between free uroflowmetry (UFM) and PFS have been largely described.

Dropped abdominal pressure at void in women.

Introduction And Hypothesis: "Dropped p at void" occurs when p decreases below the previous resting pressure during voiding time. We sought clinical factors associated with this phenomenon and evaluated whether its correction modifies the urodynamic diagnosis.

Methods: Retrospective cross-sectional study of non-neurological consecutive symptomatic women.

Voiding dynamics in women with urinary incontinence but without voiding symptoms.

Aims: To describe the voiding pattern (VP) of women with urinary incontinence but without voiding symptoms and compare their clinical and urodynamic features between those voiding with and without a measurable detrusor contraction (DET-cont).

Methods: Retrospective analysis of a prospectively built database of female urodynamic studies (UDS). Women with voiding symptoms and having medical history of different factors that could alter the lower urinary tract function were excluded.

Voiding symptoms obtained by open versus directed anamnesis as predictors of voiding dysfunction in women.

Objectives: To determine the differences between voiding symptoms obtained by open anamnesis (VS-Open) versus voiding symptoms obtained by directed anamnesis (VSDirected) to predict voiding dysfunction in women.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective study of women with prior anti-incontinence surgery evaluated during 5 years. In a standardized clinical history taking, each patient was asked to answer question number fi ve of the UDI-6 questionnaire ("Do you experience any difficulty emptying your bladder?").

Correlation of Xiphopubic Distance, Body Weight, Height and Body Mass Index with Intravesical and Abdominal Initial Resting Pressures in Urodynamic Testing in the Sitting Position.

Objectives: To compare the initial resting intravesical pressure (p ) and abdominal pressure (p ) in the sitting position with the typical range of values, to assess the correlation between such pressures and patient xipho-pubic distance, body weight, height and body mass index (BMI), and to estimate if xipho-pubic distance can be a guide to interpret initial resting pressures in urodynamic testing.

Methods: Women with lower urinary tract symptomatology referred for urodynamic testing were consecutively enrolled in a prospective study. Conventional cystometry was done following "good urodynamic practices".

Differences in urodynamic voiding variables recorded by conventional cystometry and ambulatory monitoring in symptomatic women.

Objectives: To determine whether there are differences in pressure and flow measurements between conventional cystometry (CONV) and ambulatory urodynamic monitoring (AMB) in women with overactive bladder syndrome and urinary incontinence.

Materials And Methods: Retrospective study which included female subjects who underwent both CONV (with saline filling medium) and AMB, separated by less than 24 months, not using medication active on the lower urinary tract and without history of prior pelvic surgery. Both tests were carried out in compliance with the International Continence Society standards.

Immunohistochemistry expression of P53, Ki67, CD30, and CD117 and presence of clinical metastasis at diagnosis of testicular seminoma.

Introduction: We evaluated the immunohistochemical expression of p53, Ki67, CD30, and CD117 and correlated it with histological features and presence of clinical metastasis at diagnosis of testicular seminomas.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of 62 patients was performed in patients with pure seminoma. The retroperitoneum was staged with computed tomography scan and the thorax with simple x-rays and/or computed tomography scan.

Correlation between primary tumor pathologic features and presence of clinical metastasis at diagnosis of testicular seminoma.

Objectives: To compare several risk factors in the testicular biopsy of patients with pure seminoma with and without clinical metastasis at diagnosis.

Methods: We performed a retrospective study of patients with pure seminoma. The retroperitoneum was staged with computed tomography and the thorax with simple radiography and/or computed tomography, taking into account the original reports and clinical stage.

[Discontinuous oral ciprofloxacin for transurethral resection of the prostate. Initial results].

Objectives: To describe the rate of infectious complications using a discontinuous scheme of oral ciprofloxacin in transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P). To try to weigh the influence of clinical background, operative complications and postoperative outcome on the development of such complications. To compare the results to those obtained with equal methodology using antibiotics in a continual scheme until the catheter removal.

[Cyst of the prostatic utricle: report of a case complicated by giant lithiasis].

Objective: We report a case of prostatic utricle cyst complicated with giant lithiasis.

Method/results: A 42 year old man with history of surgery for bilateral cryptorchidism and hypospadias in his infancy, presented with initial and terminal hematuria and a digital rectal examination showing a rocky, smooth enlargement of the anterior rectal wall. Prostatic specific antigen was normal.