There is an increasing use of the procedure, anatomical endoscopic enucleation of the prostate, as an alternative to conventional transurethral resection of prostate for surgical treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. However, barriers to adoption of this procedure remain and no prior studies explored this important aspect till date. The aim of this study is to identify the predictors and barriers of surgeon-related practices in this area.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The impact of COVID-19 on urological services in different geographical areas is unknown.
Objective: To investigate the global impact of COVID-19 on urological providers and the provision of urological patient care.
Aims: Ketamine is a general anesthetic. Dissociative effects and low cost led ketamine becoming an illegal recreational drug in young adults. Ketamine-induced uropathy (KIU) is one of the complications observed in abusers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Little is known about the key composition of a successful tweet in urology.
Objective: To investigate for predictors of engagement with urology content on Twitter.
Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a cross-sectional study based on 2-wk Twitter data surrounding a major international urology conference.