[Relevance of clinical and serum parameters on severe urinary sepsis after renal obstruction.].

Introduction: Urosepsis is an underdiagnosed entity with high morbidity and mortality and significant associated costs. The delay in diagnosis leads to an increased risk of multiorgan failure and death. Although its prognosis is better than that of other sepsis, the mortality rate is 20 - 40%.

[Job status after the resident training period in Spain. Analysis of a national survey.].

Objectives: Since the establishment of specialization of medicine through the residency system, Spanish health care has sought to maintain a balance between established needs and trained professionals, with the aim of avoiding the deficit or excess of health specialists with its consequences. The objective of the present review is to know the working conditions of urologist specialists at the end of the residency training period.

Methods: The results of a survey for urologist who completed their residency contract from 2012 to 2016 are presented, assessing working status, academic and working data during the first months after the completion of specialized training.

[The current urological training program in Spain. Urology National Specialty Commission.].

Objectives: 44/2003 Law involved the creation of the National Council of Specialties in Health Sciences and the National Commissions of the Specialties in Health Sciences.

Methods: Analysis of the main laws implicated in Specialized Training and the role of the National Specialty Commission.

Discussion: 44/2003 Law regulates the training of health professionals and establishes the procedure for the training programs creation by the National Specialty Commission and its later approval and publication in the BOE.

[Prognostic factors in renal cancer with venous thrombus survival analysis.].

Objectives: To analyze surgery for renal cancer with venous thrombus at different levels, perioperative complications and prognostic factors associated to overall, cancer-specific and disease-free survival.

Material And Methods: Retrospective analysis of 42 cases of renal cancer with venous thrombus performed between 2005 and 2015. The level reached by the thrombus was established according to the Mayo Clinic classification.

[Usefulness of urodynamics in the treatment of mixed urinary incontinence in women with suburethral slings].

Objective: The urodynamic results in suburethral slings (SS), are contradictory. We evaluate a series on patients with stress urinary incontinence (associated or not with bladder hyperactivity) that underwent suburethral slings (SS) operations.

Methods: 42 women (age 62±12 years) with urinary incontinence underwent suburethral slings (86% TOT, 12% TVT, 2% others), 36% of them with simultaneous pelvic organ prolapse correction.

[Small cell carcinoma of the bladder: Our experience].

Objectives: Small cell carcinoma of the bladder shows low incidence and poor survival; thus, treatment algorithms based on randomized studies are unavailable. The aim of the present study is to review our case series.

Methods: Observational retrospective study of 10 patients diagnosed with small cell carcinoma of the bladder between 2006 and 2013.