Comparison of the treatment efficacies of paroxetine, fluoxetine and dapoxetine in low socioeconomic status patients with lifelong premature ejaculation.

Introduction: To assess the treatment efficacies of paroxetine, fluoxetine and dapoxetine in patients with lifelong premature ejaculation (PE).

Material And Methods: One hundred and seventy male patients with lifelong PE were included in our study. Premature ejaculation profile (PEP) and Intravaginal ejaculation latency times (IELT) were recorded.

Evaluation of Erectile Dysfunction and Left Ventricular Diastolic Parameters in Lead Exposed Workers.

Background: Lead exposure causes a wide range of vascular diseases through oxidative stress, sympathetic hyperactivity and impairment in nitric oxide bioavailability. In this study, the association between the effects of lead exposure on left ventricular diastolic indices and erectile function were assessed.

Methods: A total of 94 lead-exposed workers without known cardiovascular diseases or risk factors and 30 healthy subjects were enrolled.

Adjustable perineal male sling using tissue expander as an effective treatment of post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence.

Purpose: To report our intermediate experience in treating patients with severe incontinence using an adjustable perineal male sling with a tissue expander.

Materials And Methods: An adjustable male sling procedure was performed on 21 patients with severe incontinence. The underlying etiology of urinary incontinence was radical prostatectomy in 13 patients, open prostatectomy in 5 patients and transurethral prostate resection in 3 patients.

Use of the nuclear matrix protein 22 Bladder Chek test™ in the diagnosis of residual urothelial cancer before a second transurethral resection of bladder cancer.

Purpose: To investigate the diagnostic value of the nuclear matrix protein 22 (NMP-22) in residual tumors after complete transurethral resection (TUR) of bladder cancer.

Methods: A total of 160 patients diagnosed with non-muscle invasive bladder cancer were prospectively enrolled in the study. Before the initial TUR, the patients were evaluated using urine cytology and the NMP-22 Bladder Chek™.

Determination of the efficiency of 8 mg doxazosin XL treatment in patients with an inadequate response to 4 mg doxazosin XL treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of 4 mg and 8 mg doxazosin XL treatments in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia-related lower urinary tract symptoms and determine the efficiency of 8 mg in those patients with inadequate response to 4 mg.

Methods: A total of 162 patients were included in this study. Of the patients, 108 were randomized to receive 4 mg doxazosin XL (group 1), and 54 were randomized to receive 8 mg (group 2) treatments.

The relationship between prostate cancer and presence of metabolic syndrome and late-onset hypogonadism.

Objective: To investigate the relationship between prostate cancer (PCa), presence of metabolic syndrome (MetS), and late-onset hypogonadism (LOH).

Materials And Methods: One hundred seventy patients who underwent transrectal ultrasonography-guided prostate needle biopsy were included in this study. For the diagnosis of MetS, American Heart Association/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute criteria were used.

Synchronous bladder and prostate cancers in the specimens of radical cystoprostatectomy: a multicenter retrospective analysis.

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the features of prostate cancer that have been incidentally detected in radical cystoprostatectomy specimens of bladder cancer patients. The researchers of the current study retrospectively evaluated the data from 119 men who underwent radical cystoprostatectomy at four referral institutions in Ankara, Turkey. Of the 21 prostate cancer patients, 17 (81%) were aged ≥ 60 years; 10 (47.