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San Francisco, California (UroToday.com) Blair Townsend, MD, MBA, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC, Levine Cancer Institute, Atrium Health, Charlotte, NC, presented a retrospective cohort study describing opioid use prior to and after radical cystectomy (RC). On October 26, 2017, the White House declared the opioid crisis a national “Public Health Emergency.” Recognizing the extensive societal […]

San Francisco, California (UroToday.com)  Charan S. Mohan, BS, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, wanted to understand the impact of the patient experience among oncologic patients. They used the SEER-CAHPS combined database to understand the relationship between the patient experience, as measured by patient-reported scores on the CAHPS survey, and […]

San Francisco, California (UroToday.com) John Barlog, BFA, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, assessed the concordance of intraoperative stone and preoperative urine cultures for patients undergoing endoscopic or percutaneous interventions for urolithiasis to identify predictors of positive stone cultures. A retrospective chart review was performed on patients undergoing […]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UroToday.com) Dr. Roshan M. Patel presented on his findings of intracalcyeal pressures and renal blood flow at the level of the urothelium, which has not been previously described. Dr. Patel and his colleagues at the University of California, Irvine have performed a number of studies to determine what the optimal […]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) (UroToday.com) Dr. Shaun Wason presented his team’s work on determining the value of using immersive virtual reality (iVR) simulation for learning percutaneous nephrostomy tract access this afternoon at the Education, Simulation, and Virtual Reality WCE Moderated Poster Session. Dr. Wason opened his presentation by stressing the importance of gaining […]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) (UroToday.com) This poster and podium presentation outlined a study that investigated whether early surgical intervention in patients with renal and ureteral stones results in less narcotics used for pain compared to a trial of passage with medical expulsive therapy. With the ongoing opioid epidemic, measures to reduce the need […]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) (UroToday.com) Uma Walters, a CT1 Doctor at Charing Cross Hospital – Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, presented their experience with a new “one-stop” lower urinary tract clinic to improve the efficiency of evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment. In their current model, patients wait an average of 20 weeks to be seen […]

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) (UroToday.com) In this session, Dr. Panagiotis Mourmouris and Dr. Evangelos Liatsikos debated the pros and cons of disposable single-use versus reusable multiuse ureteroscopes. Dr. Liatsikos, who was in favor of reusable scopes, began the debate by introducing the four categories every ureteroscope should satisfy: small caliber, good visualization, high deflection, […]