Effect of selective alpha-blocker tamsulosin on erectile function in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia.

Objective: To study the effect selective of α-blocker (tamsulosin HCl) on erectile function in married male patients who are suspected to have benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).

Materials And Methods: Our study was a prospective randomized single blinded study in one-to-one fashion conducted upon 60 patients, all of them married, between May 2010 and May 2011, the patients under the study were attending the outpatient clinic of the New Kasr Al-Aini Teaching Hospital and Students Hospital, Cairo University, complaining of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) either obstructive, irritative, or both and erectile dysfunction (ED). History was taken from all patients; all patients were examined by digital rectal examination and abdominal examination.

Laser and pneumatic lithotripsy in the endoscopic management of large ureteric stones: a comparative study.

Objective: We compared the results of holmium laser and pneumatic intracorporeal lithotripsy for large ureteric calculi in terms of efficacy, safety and complications.

Methods: The study was conducted between April 2009 and October 2010. 80 patients divided into two equally matched groups were included in a prospective randomized trial including patients with a ureteric stone size of 0.

Tubularized incised plate (TIP) in previously operated (redo) hypospadias.

Objective: We report our experience of using the tubularized incised plate (TIP) technique for repair of hypospadias in patients who had undergone one or more failed attempts at repair.

Methods: A total of 30 children (age range 2-10 years; mean 4.3 years) with hypospadias presented to our unit for redo hypospadias.