Reliability and validity of Turkish versions of the interstitial cystitis symptom index and interstitial cystitis problem index.

Aim: To validate the Turkish versions of the interstitial cystitis symptom index (ICSI) and interstitial cystitis problem index (ICPI) for use in Turkish speaking patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC).

Methods: After translation of the original ICSI and ICPI into the Turkish language, Turkish versions of ICSI and ICPI were self-administered to all participants. Test-retest reliability (intraclass correlation coefficient) was evaluated at 2 weeks intervals in the BPS/IC group.

Comparison of retrograde ureterorenoscopy (URS) and percutaneous anterograde ureteroscopy for removal of impacted upper ureteral stones >10mm in the elderly population.

Purpose: We aimed to compare the success and complication rates of the anterograde and retrograde Ureterorenoscopy (URS) for impacted upper ureteral stones in patients > 65 years of age.

Materials And Methods: Data of 146 patients >65 years of age and underwent anterograde URS (n=68) in supine position or retrograde URS (n=78) for upper ureteral impacted stones>10 mm between January 2014 and September 2018 were collected prospectively. The groups were compared for success and complication rates, duration of operation, hospital stay, and ancillary procedures.

Potassium sensitivity test predicts hydrodistention efficacy in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis.

Objective: To determine the possible role of potassium sensitivity test (PST) in predicting the success of hydrodistention (HD) in patients with bladder pain syndrome/interstitial cystitis (BPS/IC).

Material And Methods: Patients who underwent PST before diagnostic cystoscopy and HD were evaluated to collect data regarding the visual analog score (VAS) to assess pain, the voiding diary for frequency of urination/nocturia, mean urine volume per void, interstitial cystitis symptom index, and problem index before HD. Patients were requested to provide the VAS of pain at 1 month and 6 months post-HD.

The role of a novel decision aid to support informed decision making process in patients with a symptomatic non - lower pole renal stone < 20 mm in diameter: a prospective randomized study.

Objectives: To evaluate the efficacy of a novel decision aid (DA) in improving the patients' level of knowledge and decreasing decisional conflicts while deciding for SWL vs. RIRS in case of a symptomatic renal stone < 2 cm.

Materials And Methods: In this prospective randomized study patients were randomized to receive either standard informing process (group 1, n=57) or DA (group 2, n=58).

Combined Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy and Partial Nephrectomy, Rare Coincidence.

The incidence of second primary cancer detection in patients with prostate cancer undergoing cross-sectional imaging for staging workup is 1.5%. Concomitant prostate cancer and clear-cell renal cell carcinoma is a rare condition.