Resistance Exercise Training Increases Muscle Mass and Strength in Prostate Cancer Patients on Androgen Deprivation Therapy.

Purpose: This study aimed to assess the effects of 20 wk resistance exercise training with or without protein supplementation on body composition, muscle mass, muscle strength, physical performance, and aerobic capacity in prostate cancer patients receiving androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).

Methods: Sixty prostate cancer patients receiving ADT were randomly assigned to perform 20 wk of resistance exercise training with supplementation of 31 g whey protein (EX + PRO, n = 30) or placebo (EX + PLA, n = 30), consumed immediately after exercise and every night before sleep. A separate control group (CON, n = 36) only received usual care.

Endoscopic Transvesical Adenomectomy of the Prostate, a New Minimal Invasive Approach for Large Benign Prostate Hyperplasia. A Description of the Technique and the Results of the First 40 Patients.

Objective: The objective of this study is to present the results in the first 40 patients treated with a new minimal invasive technique in the treatment of large-volume benign prostate hyperplasia: the endoscopic transvesical adenomectomy of the prostate (ETAP).

Patients And Methods: From 2014 to 2016 we performed the ETAP in 40 patients with large volume benign prostate hyperplasia (>80 cc). The mean volume on ultrasound was 117 cc.

Neurophysiological testing to assess penile sensory nerve damage after radical prostatectomy.

Introduction: Radical prostatectomy (RP) can lead to erectile dysfunction due to surgical injury of the cavernous nerves. However, there is no simple, objective test to evaluate cavernous nerve damage caused by RP in clinical practice.

Aim: To assess the value of the measurement of penile thermal and vibratory sensory thresholds to reflect cavernous nerve damage caused by RP.

How do different tests evaluate sensation in the lower urinary tract?

Objective: Different tests can be used to evaluate lower urinary tract (LUT) sensation. The purpose of this study is to compare sensory tests in patients with voiding disorders.

Material And Methods: Seventy patients with various functional disorders of the LUT were admitted for a cystometry and an electrical perception threshold test of the bladder (bEPT) and distal urethra (uEPT).

Intrafascial nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy with a laparoscopic robot-assisted extraperitoneal approach: early oncological and functional results.

Objective: We investigated whether an intrafascial approach to prostatectomy would provide significantly improved outcomes compared with retropubic and laparoscopic approaches. We performed 50 radical prostatectomies with an intrafascial, nerve-sparing, laparoscopic, robot-assisted extraperitoneal approach.

Methods: From December 2007 to June 2008, 50 consecutive patients underwent nerve sparing surgery using the intrafascial technique with robotic assistance.

Predicting tumour location in radical prostatectomy specimens: same-patient comparisons of 21-sample versus sextant biopsy.

Objective: To determine the value of a 21-sample biopsy protocol in predicting tumour localization in radical prostatectomy (RP) specimens, compared with sextant biopsies.

Patients And Methods: In all, 300 consecutive patients underwent 21-sample prostate biopsies, followed by RP. The protocol consisted of sextant, three midline, six far lateral and six transitional zone biopsies.

Healthy, middle-aged, history-free, continent women--do they strain to void?

Purpose: We evaluated to what extent abdominal straining is used for voiding in an asymptomatic, continent, healthy, middle-aged female population.

Materials And Methods: A total of 32 women (mean age 49 +/- 6 years old) could be prospectively included. Technical investigations consisted of flowmetry, pressure flowmetry with EMG and electrosensation evaluation.

Does the cystometric filling rate affect the afferent bladder response pattern? A study on single fibre pelvic nerve afferents in the rat urinary bladder.

Aims: To study the effect of physiological and supraphysiological filling rates on the response pattern of single fibre pelvic nerve afferents of the rat urinary bladder.

Materials And Methods: A total of 37 single afferent bladder units were identified electrophysiologically and their mechanosensitive properties studied. Afferent activity of 13 units was studied at filling rates of 40 and 200 microl/min.

Systemic oxybutynin decreases afferent activity of the pelvic nerve of the rat: new insights into the working mechanism of antimuscarinics.

Aims: In a rat model, intravesical oxybutynin was recently shown to suppress pelvic afferent nerves. This study evaluates if a similar effect exists after systemic administration of oxybutynin.

Methods: Twenty-four single afferent bladder nerves were identified in 15 rats.

Current perception thresholds in the lower urinary tract: Sine- and square-wave currents studied in young healthy volunteers.

Aims: To establish normative current perception threshold (CPT) values with neuroselective sine-wave current in the lower urinary tract and to compare these values with square-wave current CPTs.

Materials And Methods: 10 female and 8 male healthy volunteers were used for this study. A filling cystometry was performed and CPTs were determined with square-wave current at a frequency of 2.