Intermediate- and Long-term Results After Adjustable Transobturator Male System Implantation.

Objective: To assess outcomes of continence and complications after implantation of Adjustable TransObturator Male System (ATOMS) for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Materials And Methods: Data of 80 patients receiving an ATOMS implantation between 2010 and 2021 at a tertiary academic referral center were retrospectively analyzed. Primary endpoints were outcomes of continence and complications.

Patient reported outcomes of intermittent self-dilatation after direct vision internal urethrotomy.

Purpose: Long-term results on quality of life (QoL) as well as clinical outcomes of intermittent self-dilatation (ISD) of the urethra after direct visual internal urethrotomy (DVIU) are scarce. The aim of this study was to prospectively evaluate patient reported outcomes (PROs) on voiding symptoms and QoL in a large cohort of urethral stricture patients performing ISD.

Methods: We identified a total of 121 patients who performed ISD following DVIU between 2008 and 2013.

Long-Term Results after Suprapubic ARC Procedure for the Treatment of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women: A Retrospective Data Analysis.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term safety and efficacy of the suprapubic arc (SPARC) procedure for the surgical treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).

Materials And Methods: 139 female patients treated by SPARC were included in this retrospective analysis, whereby 126 patients were available for follow-up after 1 year, 70 after 6 years, and 41 after 9 years. The cough test, pad test, uroflowmetry, and post-void residual volume measurements were performed.

Adjustable Continence Balloons in Men: Adjustments Do Not Translate Into Long-term Continence.

Objective: To evaluate the functional results, morbidity, and quality of life of the adjustable continence balloons ProACT for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence after prostate surgery considering both short- and long-term results.

Methods: Between 2002 and 2012, twenty-two consecutive male patients were implanted with the ProACT device. Continence was defined by the use of 0 pads daily, and the quality of life was assessed by validated questionnaires.

Sexual function in women with stress urinary incontinence treated with the SPARC sling system.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of SPARC on female sexual function.

Methods: 151 women with a mean age of 60 ± 11.90 and SUI had a complete urodynamic investigation and underwent SPARC operation.

Efficacy and tolerability of propiverine hydrochloride extended-release compared with immediate-release in patients with neurogenic detrusor overactivity.

Study Design: Double-blind, randomised, multicentre study.

Objectives: Efficacy and tolerability of propiverine extended-release (ER) compared with immediate-release (IR) were evaluated in patients with proven neurogenic detrusor overactivity (NDO).

Setting: Six Spinal Cord Injury Units located in Austria, Germany and Romania.

Early results of a European multicentre experience with a new self-anchoring adjustable transobturator system for treatment of stress urinary incontinence in men.

Objective: To report our experience with a new self-anchoring adjustable transobturator male system (ATOMS®; AMI, Vienna, Austria) for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in men.

Patients And Methods: A total of 99 men, in a number of centres, were treated for SUI with the new ATOMS® device. The device was implanted in all patients using an outside-in technique by passing the obturator foramen and anchoring the device to the inferior pubic ramus.

[Treatment of stress urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: adjustable transobturator male system - results of a multicenter prospective observational study].

Background: The adjustable transobturator male system (ATOMS®) is a new method for the treatment of male stress urinary incontinence. This article presents the results of a prospective multicenter observational study with this system.

Patients And Methods: Between March 2009 and March 2011 a total of 124 patients with persistent stress urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy received the ATOMS system.

Clinical impact of body mass index on the outcome of the SPARC-sling system for the treatment of female stress urinary incontinence.

Purpose: Of this observational study was to evaluate the clinical outcome of the suprapubic arc (SPARC)-sling system in women with stress urinary incontinence according to body mass index (BMI).

Materials And Methods: A total of 151 women underwent SPARC between June 2001 and March 2009 at a single tertiary academic center. A complete urodynamic investigation was performed preoperatively.

Quality of life after SPARC sling procedure: a long-term retrospective analysis.

Introduction: To asses the effects on quality of life (QoL) in women with stress urinary incontinence after a SPARC sling procedure.

Methods: This is a long-term retrospective study. The study cohort consisted of 54 women: 46 were available for follow-up examination and 8 were contacted by telephone.

The suprapubic arch sling procedure for treatment of stress urinary incontinence: a 5-year retrospective study.

Background: Up to now, numerous similar products concerning the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) have been developed.

Objective: To assess the long-term efficacy and safety of the suprapubic arch (SPARC) sling system in women with SUI.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This was a long-term retrospective study.

Premature preoperative discontinuation of antiplatelet drug therapy in cardiovascular risk patients: a preliminary study on the role of P2Y12 receptor monitoring.

Background And Objective: In high-bleeding risk procedures, discontinuation of antiplatelet drug therapy with clopidogrel may be requested by surgeons, usually 7-10 days before the surgical procedure. New platelet function tests, such as the vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein phosphorylation assay, may help to assess the perioperative status of the clopidogrel-specific P2Y12 receptor.

Methods: Using vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein phosphorylation assay, the platelet reactivity index (PRI) was measured in 80 individuals, including 20 healthy volunteers, 20 cardiologic patients under full antiplatelet drug therapy with clopidogrel and aspirin, 20 surgical patients without any antiplatelet drugs and 20 patients under clopidogrel, discontinued 7 days before the surgical procedure.

Nocturia: an Austrian study on the multifactorial etiology of this symptom.

Aims: To identify the different factors contributing to nocturia in a clinical setting.

Patients And Methods: Three hundred twenty-four patients (133 women, 191 men; mean age 63 years) were entered into this multi-institutional study. When presenting with nocturia we obtained detailed medical history and performed urine analysis, post-void residual volume and renal ultrasonography.

One year follow-up on the SPARC sling system for the treatment of female urodynamic stress incontinence.

Aim: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of the SPARC sling in women with urinary incontinence.

Methods: Women who presented with urinary incontinence symptoms were included in this prospective study. In total, 103 women underwent evaluation of subjective and objective cure rates, quality of life and urodynamic parameters following the SPARC procedure.

SPARC sling system for treatment of female stress urinary incontinence in the elderly.

Objective: To investigate the safety and efficacy of the suprapubic arch (SPARC) sling procedure for the management of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in elderly women.

Method: Forty-three women, aged 65-91 yr, underwent the SPARC procedure for urodynamic SUI. Before surgery, a complete medical history was obtained and a urogynecology examination and urodynamic test were performed.

Oncologic outcomes of primary lymphoma of bone in adults.

A retrospective analysis of adult patients who had lymphomatous involvement of bone was done to evaluate the prognostic factors and the oncologic outcome. Between 1984 and 1994, 28 patients (nine women and 19 men) were diagnosed with lymphoma of bone. The median age was 45 years (range, 23-76 years).

Controlled, double-blind, multicentre clinical trial to investigate long-term tolerability and efficacy of trospium chloride in patients with detrusor instability.

Our objectives were to ascertain the tolerability and efficacy of trospium chloride in doses of 20 mg twice daily for long-term therapy (52 weeks) in patients with urge syndrome. The trial comprised a total of 358 patients with urge syndrome or urge incontinence. After randomisation in the ratio of 3:1, participants were treated continuously for 52 weeks with either trospium chloride (20 mg twice daily) or oxybutynin (5 mg twice daily).

Patient self-reporting questionnaire on urological morbidity and bother after radical retropubic prostatectomy.

Objectives: We assessed the incidence of morbidity and bother on quality-of-life (QL) after radical retropubic prostatectomy for prostate cancer.

Methods: At least 12 months after surgery, self-reporting questionnaires were completed and returned by 368 (77.8%) of 473 eligible patients.

[Native spiral computerized tomography in patients with acute flank pain--sense or nonsense?].

Purpose: To compare the diagnostic efficacy and costs of native spiral-CT and intravenous urography (IVU) in the management of patients with acute flank pain.

Method: Native spiral-CT and IVU (following about 30 minutes after CT) were compared in 66 patients with acute flank pain followed by an IVU. The spiral-CT protocol was: 5-mm section thickness, 7.

The monoclonal antibody GZS-1 detects a maturation-associated antigen of human spermatozoa that is also present on the surface of human mononuclear blood cells.

A monoclonal antibody (GZS-1) has been generated by fusion of mouse myeloma cells with spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunised with human sperm cells. The antibody was determined to be an IgG1. The corresponding antigen is present on the whole surface of ejaculated human spermatozoa.

Restoration of micturition in patients with acontractile and hypocontractile detrusor by transurethral electrical bladder stimulation.

The aim of transurethral electrical bladder stimulation (TEBS) treatment in patients with diminished detrusor contractility is to attain complete voiding, i.e., micturition without residual urine, which is under volitional control.

Maximal external electrical stimulation for treatment of neurogenic or non-neurogenic urgency and/or urge incontinence.

Maximal electrical stimulation by intravaginal or intra-anal electrodes was used for treatment of 75 patients with complaints of urgency and/or urge incontinence. The patient group consisted of 51 women and 24 men. A neurogenic background was present in 30 of the women who had a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, in the other 45 patients the pathology was idiopathic in nature.

[Nephrogenic adenoma after kidney transplantation].

We report five cases of nephrogenic adenoma that arose several years after cadaver kidney transplantation. Cystoscopy was performed in all patients because of gross haematuria and revealed multifocal tumorous lesions in all parts of the bladder. On admission to of hospital graft function was satisfactory in all patients.