[Urology training in Mexico: Residents' perspective].

Objective: To assess and identify from the resident's perspective the current state of the urology residency training in the surgical, research, affective domain and its working future.

Material And Methods: We performed an anonymous survey of 98 urology residents during 2014. The survey included 62 questions and assesses the surgical, the clinical research, and the affective domain, and also its working future.

The Psychological Impact of Prostate Biopsy: Anxiety and Depression Associated with a Positive Biopsy Result.

Introduction: We evaluated the psychological impact on patients caused by transrectal prostate biopsy and the emotional stress in those with a positive prostate cancer finding.

Methods: We performed a psychological evaluation of 328 men who underwent transrectal prostate biopsy using HADS (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale) at 3 time points. In addition we analyzed events related to the procedure, compared anxiety and depression levels in men with a negative result vs those diagnosed with prostate cancer, and evaluated anxiety and depression associated with events related to the procedure.

Penile tuberculosis after intravesical bacille Calmette-Guérin immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy with bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) is widely used for treatment of superficial urothelial cancer. Complications associated with BCG treatment are common. The most common are minor reactions as cystitis, hematuria, fever, malaise.

Abiraterone acetate and castration resistant ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate.

Ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate is a rare histological variant that only represents <1% of prostate tumors. This histological variant has several important clinical implications with respect to their evolution, clinical prognosis, and treatment. We report the case of a 64-year-old patient with ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate, which progresses to castration-resistant prostate cancer, that was treated with abiraterone acetate with good clinical response, to our knowledge, the first case of ductal adenocarcinoma of the prostate in treatment with abiraterone acetate.

Single Dose of Levofloxacin versus Three Dosages for Prophylaxis in Prostate Biopsy.

Transrectal ultrasound-guided core prostate biopsy is a key event in the diagnosis of prostate cancer, transient side events such as local pain, haematuria, haematospermia, dysuria, and rectal bleeding are reported in a large number of patients. Antimicrobial agents lower the incidence of postbiopsy infectious complications. The timing and duration of the regimen and the route of administration remain controversial.