[Urinary stress incontinence after radical prostatectomy in treatment reality : Results of a rehabilitation clinic-2009 compared to 2016].

Purpose: Based on the work of Lent et al., the aim of this study was to compare and to evaluate the 2009 outcomes of maintaining continence after radical prostatectomy (rp) with those of patients from 2016.

Patients And Methods: The data of all patients who underwent follow-up treatment 1 to 8 weeks after rp in 2016 (n = 1392) were evaluated by quantitative measuring all day incontinence under a defined graduation and compared to the results of 2009 (n = 1750).

[Types and harms of medical errors in urology: results of reviews from 1999-2019].

Background And Objective: Medical errors are comprised of various problems. Influencing factors include the diseases and procedures involved, the types of errors and the consequential harms of the respective treatment processes. Their contribution is determined for the first time in an extended systematic analysis of errors ascertained by a professional commission.

[Residents training in private practice : Conflicts between circumstances, willingness, and reality].

Background: The increasing average age of urologists in private practice and outpatient treatment needs means that there is an increased demand for young urologists to cover outpatient care. Due to the increasing range of treatments, residents lack the mediation of those treatment methods and medical conditions which are necessary to become competent in the complete field of urology.

Objectives: To assess the willingness, the requirements, and the current implementation of residents training in private practice.

[Economic importance of postoperative urinary incontinence].

In the 22,160 patients treated in Germany for prostate cancer by prostatectomy, the costs for direct and indirect sequelae as the result of postoperative urinary incontinence are estimated to be 71.8 million €. This greatly exceeds the costs of 69.

[Ureteroarterial fistula - pathogenesis, diagnostics, and therapeutic outcome].

Although ureteroarterial fistulas are rare, they result in a high mortality because of the massive urogenital haemorrhage. The diagnosis is often difficult even when invasive measures are applied. Including the ureteroarterial fistula in the diagnostic process in cases of macrohaematuria with a positive medical history can be helpful.