Knowledge and practices regarding prostate cancer screening in Spanish men: The importance of personal and clinical characteristics (PROSHADE study).

Introduction: Patients' decisions on prostate cancer (PCa) opportunistic screening may vary. This study aimed to assess how demographic and health-related characteristics may influence knowledge and decisions regarding PCa screening.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among men aged over 40, randomly sampled from the Spanish population, 2022.

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Variables Associated with False-Positive PSA Results: A Cohort Study with Real-World Data.

(1) Background: There are no real-world data evaluating the incidence of false-positive results. We analyzed the clinical and analytical factors associated with the presence of false-positive results in PSA determinations in practice. (2) Methods: A prospective cohort study of patients with a PSA test was performed in clinical practice.

PROSHADE Protocol: Designing and Evaluating a Decision Aid for Promoting Shared Decision Making in Opportunistic Screening for Prostate Cancer: A Mix-Method Study.

Opportunistic prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening may reduce prostate cancer mortality risk but is associated with false positive results, biopsy complications and overdiagnosis. Although different organisations have emphasised the importance of shared decision making (SDM) to assist men in deciding whether to undergo prostate cancer screening, recent evaluations show that the available decision aids fail to facilitate SDM, mainly because they do not consider the patients' perspective in their design. We aim to systematically develop and test a patient decision aid to promote SDM in prostate cancer screening, following the Knowledge to Action framework.

Do the Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Tests That Are Ordered in Clinical Practice Adhere to the Pertinent Guidelines?

Scientific societies have provided guidelines to reduce PSA-specific harms. We studied the potential non-compliance of PSA testing with current guidelines in general practice. A cross-sectional study of a random sample of 1291 patients with a PSA test was performed between January and April 2018 in primary health care.

Comparative assessment of biodegradable-antireflux heparine coated ureteral stent: animal model study.

Background: Double J ureteral stents are widely used on urological patients to provide drainage of the upper urinary tract. Unfourtunately, ureteral stents are not free from complications, as bacterial colonization and require a second procedure for removal. The purpose of the current comparative experimental study is to evaluate a new heparin-coated biodegradable antireflux ureteral stent (BraidStent®-H) to prevent urinary bacterial colonization.

[Medical expulsive treatment for ureteral stones.].

Introduction: Medical Expulsive Treatment (MET) for ureteral stones has been questioned for the last few years.

Objectives: The main goal of our study is to define the indications of MET, the different drugs that are used and their effectiveness and to propose a follow-up strategy. Secondary objectives include the effectiveness of MET in some special subgroups such as pregnant women and children and to assess aspects of MET cost-effectiveness compared with other options for ureteral lithiasis treatment (ureterorenoscopy or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy).

Medical treatment for acute renal colic.

Introduction: Renoureteral colic (CRU) is the most common urological emergency, with a wide spectrum of severity that generates high morbidity and high health costs. However, there is no homogeneous scheme of pharmacological treatment in its acutephase.

Aims: The main objective of our work is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety profile of the different drugs used in the treatment of CCR and to propose a practical treatment scheme.

Micro-ureteroscopy vs. ureteroscopy: effects of miniaturization on renal vascularization and intrapelvic pressure.

Purpose: Ureteroscopy (URS) is related to complications, as fever or postoperative urinary sepsis, due to high intrapelvic pressure (IPP) during the procedure. Micro-ureteroscopy (m-URS) aims to reduce morbidity by miniaturizing the instrument. The objective of this study is to compare IPP and changes in renal haemodynamics, while performing m-URS vs.

[MicroURS. Is it a technique to stay?].

Micro-ureteroscopy is a novel technique derived from the need to reduce the morbidity associated with conventional ureteroscopy. Reducing morbidity, we will be able to improve quality of life of patients, for example, by shortening the times to elimination of the stones. In this article the authors intend to expose the different applications of micro ureteroscopy as well as the incipient scientific evidence on the topic.

Microureteroscopy in Children: Two First Cases.

Background: Urinary stones disease is becoming more common not only in adults but also in children. Most cases are resolved with extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, but miniaturization of endoscopes has increased the use of ureteroscopy in resolving ureteral stones, most notably in children.

Case Presentation: This presentation focuses on two cases of microureteroscopy.

Assessment of the Effectiveness, Safety, and Reproducibility of Micro-Ureteroscopy in the Treatment of Distal Ureteral Stones in Women: A Multicenter Prospective Study.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness, safety, and reproducibility of the micro-ureteroscopy (m-URS) in the treatment of distal ureteral stones in women.

Materials And Methods: A multicenter, prospective observational study was designed and conducted between March and December 2015. We included women having at least one stone in the distal ureter and being a candidate for surgical treatment using the 4.

[Renal allograft rupture: case report and bibliographic review].

Objective: To improve the knowledge about complications of renal transplantation and, in particular, graft rupture.

Methods: Case report and literature review.

Outcome: We present the case of a 37 year-old patient receiving a second renal transplant.

How to expand the service life of flexible nephroscopes? Put a sheath on!

Technologic advances in endourologic surgical material have led to improved image quality, power sources, and auxiliary material (probes, nitinol baskets, etc.). Nevertheless, this material is more expensive, especially the flexible endoscopic material--ureterorenoscopes and nephroscopes.

[Urodynamic findings in patients older than 65 years: experience in the Department 19 of the health-care area of Valencia (HCAV)].

Objectives: This work tries to analyze the urodynamic studies performed in patients over the age of 65 years in the Department 19 of HCAV with the aim of reviewing our activity in this population segment between January 2001 and September 2006, and to perform a clinical-urodynamic correlation which will help to find a diagnosis avoiding the need to repeat urodynamic tests.

Methods: We perform a descriptive transversal study with retrospective analysis of data from patients older than 65 years who underwent urodynamic tests. Total population in this age range in our health-care department (HCD) (HCD 19) is 35.