Risk factors and predisposing conditions for urinary tract infection.

Understanding individual and population-specific risk factors associated with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) can help physicians tailor prophylactic strategies. Frequent intercourse, vulvovaginal atrophy, change of the local bacterial flora, history of UTIs during premenopause or in childhood, family history, and a nonsecretor blood type are substantiated risk factors for recurrent uncomplicated UTIs. This is a narrative review based on relevant literature according to the experience and expertise of the authors.

Penile Prosthesis Implantation in Patients with a History of Total Phallic Construction.

Introduction: Outcomes following penile prosthesis implantation in patients with a history of total phallic construction are not well described.

Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate outcomes following neophallus penile prosthesis placement.

Methods: Retrospective review penile prosthesis placement in patients with prior total phallic construction.

[Buccal mucosa graft augmented anastomotic urethroplasty for the treatment of bulbar urethral strictures].

Objective: To report our outcomes with the use of buccal mucosal graft anastomotic urethroplasty to reconstruct complex anterior urethral strictures.

Methods: Between October 2007 and January 2011 we conducted a retrospective review of a series of 65 patients from 2 different centers. We analyzed demographic data, surgical outcomes and complications.

Traumatic testicular dislocation.

Introduction: Traumatic testicular dislocation is a rare entity. It occurs after a direct blunt scrotal trauma causing the testicle to migrate outside the scrotum, most frequently to the superficial inguinal region.

Materials And Methods: A review of the diagnostic database of our two institutions was performed searching for complex genital trauma between 1990 and 2012.

Initial human feasibility study of DC ablation as a treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia: 6 month follow-up data.

Direct current (DC) ablation is a novel non-thermal technology that causes focused coagulative necrosis in the lateral lobes of the prostate to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). The necrosis is caused by a zone of non-physiologic pH which is created in a predictable pattern around each electrode in which a direct current is applied during treatment. The objective of this study was to optimize treatment parameters and assess treatment tolerability using transurethral DC ablation as an office-based treatment for BPH.

[Renal and perinephric abscesses: a series of 44 cases].

Renal abscesses are infrequent event and may occasionally be fatal. In order to characterize its main clinical features, its diagnosis and evolution, a retrospective-descriptive study was done with cases identified between 1996 and 2006 in a teaching hospital. Forty-four cases were collected (mean age 49.

[Prospective trial comparing shock wave lithotripsy and ureteroscopy for management of distal ureteral calculi].

Purpose: To compare the efficacy of ureteroscopy and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in treating distal ureteral calculi and evaluate the best treatment alternative for this disease.

Material And Methods: A total of 104 patients with distal ureteral calculi requiring surgical intervention were enrolled and observed in a prospective follow-up. For ESWL, a Modulix SLX Storz lithotriptor was used and for ureteroscopy, a Storz 33 cm semi-rigid ureteroscope with a diameter of 7,5 to 9,5 french and a 6-degree optic.

[Use of paroxetine on-demand in premature ejaculation].

Introduction: It has been described varied definitions of premature ejaculation (PE), which has determined different prevalences and rates of success for the different therapies with selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors. Our goal was evaluate the effectiveness of paroxetine like treatment of premature ejaculation administered on-demand (4-6 hours previous to intercourse) compared to the scheme of daily dose.

Patients And Method: A prospective study type crossover was designed with 14 patients.