Background: Social media (So-Me) platforms are valuable resources for health care professionals and academics to discover, discuss, and distribute current advances in research and clinical practices, including technology trends.
Objective: This study aims to assess the role of So-Me in urological practice in Saudi Arabia. It explores the influence of digital platforms on patient interaction, professional communication, decision-making, and education.
Both in vivo and in vitro studies have shown that functional plant-based food such as fruits, vegetables, and berries can enhance health, have preventive effects, and reduce the risk of several chronic diseases. This review discusses blackcurrant fruit usage in humans and experimental animals and its effect on the genitourinary system (GUS). This comprehensive review demonstrates that blackcurrants and their bioactive compounds possess medicinal and therapeutic properties related to the GUS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Varicocele is a common condition affecting males of reproductive age and accounting for the most frequent cause of secondary infertility in males.
Presentation: A young male presented with second infertility and bilateral varicoceles and underwent antegrade angioembolization. He developed testicular ischemia and testicular failure with new onset hypogonadism and cryptozoospermia.
Introduction: Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined as the involuntary loss of urine. The condition can happen in both genders, but more frequently in women. There are multiple known risk factors for UI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFForeign body (FB) in the urinary bladder (UB) is uncommon and rarely reported in pediatric patients FB migration into the UB is an extremely rare and unpredictable condition that needs a high index of suspicion with meticulous history taking and clinical reasoning, so diagnosis may be challenging. In this study, we report two cases of male pediatric patients from Sudan with FB in the UB, with a history of penetrating perineal trauma, both were presented with irritative lower urinary tract symptoms, history of penetrating perineal trauma, and unremarkable clinical examination. Both were diagnosed by abdominal Ultrasound study (USS) and confirmed by cystoscopy.
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