Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UroToday.com) This session overviewed new techniques in stone disease, including dusting, fragmenting, popcorning, and popdusting. Traditionally, a holmium laser is used for these procedures. The structure of the holmium laser used for urolithiasis is a laser cavity with two mirrors and one opening, a crystal with holmium ions, and a laser […]
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UroToday.com) The task of summarizing how Endourology has evolved over the years and projecting how the field may evolve in the future is no easy task. Fortunately, Dr. Glenn Preminger, a urologist at the Comprehensive Kidney Stone Center at Duke University Medical Center, stepped up to the task this morning […]
Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) is a rapidly growing treatment for small renal mass (SRM). In fact, RPN has shown good functional and oncologic outcome. In this manuscript, we are reporting on the incidence and pattern of recurrence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with RPN.
Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) is a rapidly growing treatment for small renal mass (SRM). In fact, RPN has shown good functional and oncologic outcome. In this manuscript, we are reporting on the incidence and pattern of recurrence of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) treated with RPN.
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE) (UroToday.com) It is widely known that bladder cancer is the second most common urological cancer in adults and the seventh most common diagnosis of cancer in males. One of the most conventional methods of treating bladder cancers is with Transurethral Resection of the Bladder Tumor (or TURBT), which aims […]
To examine long and short term outcomes using cell salvage with a commercially available leukocyte depletion filter following radical cystectomy in an oncologic population. 157 patients, 87 of whom received a cell salvage transfusion, were retrospectively identified from chart review. 90-day outcomes as well as long-term mortality and cancer recurrence data were collected. Chi-square, Student’s […]
Objective: This study aims to evaluate safety of radical cystectomy (RS)+pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND)+ileal conduit urinary diversion (ICUD) in male patients aged >65 years versus ≤65 years. Materials and Methods: Eighty-five male patients who underwent RS + PLND + ICUD for bladder cancer were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into two groups according to age: ≤65 years (Group 1, n = 40) […]
We investigated the association between the pretreatment quality of life (QOL) and overall survival (OS) in patients with urothelial carcinoma (UC), as the influence of pretreatment QOL on prognosis remains unclear in patients with localized and metastatic UC. Between June 2013 and May 2019, we retrospectively investigated 205 patients with UC who received radical cystectomy […]
To quantify the prognostic impact of age on relapse and mortality in patients with metastatic testicular germ cell tumors (TGCT). Electronical medical records of 1,225 TGCT patients who were treated at a single academic center between 1994 and 2015 were reviewed. Higher age did not predict for worse progression-free survival (PFS) or for higher progression […]
Many therapeutic options are now available for men with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), including next-generation androgen receptor axis-targeted therapies (AATTs), immunotherapy, chemotherapy, and radioisotope therapies. No clear consensus has been reached for the optimal sequencing of treatments for patients with mCRPC, and few well-validated molecular markers exist to guide the treatment decisions for individual […]
