[Experience with application of ALMGP-01 device for local transrectal microwave hyperthermia of the prostate in the treatment of chronic prostatitis].

The article presents the results of a clinical trial of efficacy of ALMGP-01 device in 34 patients with chronic prostatitis. The device provides local microwave hyperthermia of the prostate which appeared highly effective in combined treatment of chronic prostatitis.

[Long-term surgical treatment outcome in ureteral neuromuscular dysplasia in children].

178 patients with ureteral neuromuscular dysplasia (UND) treated surgically were followed up for maximum 8 years. The following operations were made: resection of the stenosed part with antireflux operation by Politano-Leatbetter, Hendren operation, Lopatkin-Kalichinsky operation. Functional results depended on the condition of leiomyocyte regenerative reserves, deficiency of secretory renal function and the surgical method.

[Neuromuscular dysplasia of the ureters in children].

The paper is concerned with disputable aspects of the policy in the diagnosis of neuromuscular ureteral dysplasia (NUD) in children, with indications to NUD conservative treatment and a choice of optimal surgical correction at primary or repeat operations basing on ureteral dilatation. The necessity of the NUD conservative treatment in children with nonaffected renal function has been confirmed by 52 cases of NUD children treated conservatively or surgically. The analysis of surgical outcomes in 34 NUD children and urodynamic pre- and postoperative examinations in 18 of them suggest the following conclusions: 1) the decision on "modelling" of the ureter is feasible only in the course of surgical intervention; 2) in ureteral dilatation less than 5-7 mm "modelling" is unnecessary.

[The role of electropyelo- and electroureterography in assessing operations on the upper urinary tract].

Biopotential recording is currently used in patients with urologic diseases to determine the status of the upper urinary tract, to assess the electric activity of detrusor urinae, as additional objective indications while choosing an organ-preserving or organ-removing surgery, to check the effects of direct electric stimulation, to elucidate the magnitude of lesion and its extension. Electropyelo- and electroureterographies were performed by the routine procedures by employing foreign and Soviet-made devices in 76 patients with various urologic diseases resulting in upper urinary contractility: hydronephrosis, neuromuscular dysplasia, vesicoureteral reflux, as well as with other diseases. Electroureterography of the ureteropelvic segment will help choose a correct tactics of surgical therapy for patients with hydronephrosis; in case of markedly lower electric activity, the terms of nephrostoma removal after ureteropelvic plastic operation may be increased up to 2 months, as evidenced both by electropyelographic and clinical findings.