Streamlined surgical approach for coexistent urethral stricture and benign prostatic enlargement: feasibility, safety and patency results.

Purpose: To evaluate the technical feasibility, safety, and patency results of a simultaneous surgical approach to repair urethral stricture and treat benign prostatic enlargement endoscopically in a highly selected group of patients at a tertiary referral center. We hypothesize that this is technically feasible, safe, and does not affect urethroplasty outcomes.

Methods: A retrospective review of adult men who underwent simultaneous urethroplasty and endoscopic prostatic surgery between May 2017 and May 2024 at our institution was conducted.

Case Report: Mini-endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery in an en-bloc kidney transplant.

Background: Overall incidence of stones in kidney transplant recipients is 1%. En-bloc kidney transplant is a rare anatomical condition in which kidney stones treatment can be extremely difficult to treat. As far as we know, no cases of staghorn calculi in en-bloc kidney transplant have been published so far.

Flexible fibre optic vs digital ureteroscopy and enhanced vs unenhanced imaging for diagnosis and treatment of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC): results from the Clinical Research Office of the Endourology Society (CROES)-UTUC registry.

Objectives: To compare the oncological outcomes of patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) undergoing kidney-sparing surgery (KSS) with fibre-optic (FO) vs digital (D) ureteroscopy (URS). To evaluate the oncological impact of image-enhancement technologies such as narrow-band imaging (NBI) and Image1-S in patients with UTUC.

Patients And Methods: The Clinical Research Office of the Endourology Society (CROES)-UTUC registry is an international, multicentre, cohort study prospectively collecting data on patients with UTUC.

Endourology and Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in COVID-19 Pandemic.

The new disease COVID-19 pandemic has completely modified our lifestyle, changing our personal habits and daily activities and strongly our professional activity. Following World Health Organization (WHO) and health care authorities around the World recommendations, all elective surgeries from benign diagnose procedures must be postponed and imperatively continue working on emergent and oncological urgent pathologies. Surgical elective treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is not considered as a priority.

Pyelocaliceal Distribution of Kidney Stones Used as an Outcome Predictor in Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy After Being Evaluated with Preoperative and Postoperative CT Scan.

Objective: To identify kidney stone characteristics that will determine either success or failure of a percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and design a classification system to predict results according to these characteristics.

Materials And Methods: One hundred thirty-eight patients were assessed with multislice abdominal and pelvic CT before and after PCNL. With regard to pyelocaliceal stone distribution, we classified our patients in two groups that we called "no extra stone in middle calix" (NESMC) and "extra stone in middle calix" (ESMC), according to the difficulty in reaching the stones.

Percutaneous lithotripsy in Valdivia-Galdakao decubitus position: our experience.

Percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PNL) is actually the first therapeutic option to resolve complex renal stones. Our department initiated its experience in 1985 and treated the first 585 patients in ventral decubitus, as the original technique was described. Then, in 1998, the dorsal decubitus was adopted (Valdivia Uria), in which 695 patients were treated.

[Randomized study on urinary continence after radical prostatectomy with previous kinesic perineal physiotherapy].

Objectives: Urinary incontinence is one of the main complications after radical prostatectomy (RP). Preoperative kinetic physiotherapy could be useful as a preventive treatment of these complication. The objective of this work is to demonstrate the usefulness of preoperative perineal kinetic physiotherapy for early recovery of urinary continence after radical prostatectomy.

[Preoperative prognostic variables in renal cancer].

Objectives: To analyze the correlation between preoperative variables in patients with kidney cancer and subsequent finding of bad prognosis factors.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study reviewing the charts of all patients undergoing surgery at the HIBA bet- ween June 1988 and April 2003. 555 patients were included, registering age, gender, and clinical presentation.