This article was written by Prof. Hein Van Poppel (BE) and Mrs. Sarah Collen (BE) of the European Association of Urology and by Ms. Sarah Coghlan (GB) and Ms. Kellie Paich (US) of Movember. It was published as part of the Men’s Health Campaign 2021 of Mediaplanet online via www.healthawareness.co.uk/mens-health/why-early-detection-for-prostate-cancer-is-vital/ and in a supplement inside The […]
Chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS) is an intractable nonbacterial inflammatory disease. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs, iMSCs) have been well documented for the management of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders because of their powerful immunoregulatory and anti-inflammatory capacities.
Testicular volume (TV) is considered a good clinical marker of hormonal and spermatogenic function. Accurate reference values for TV measures in infertile and fertile men are lacking. We aimed to assess references values for TV in white-European infertile men and fertile controls.
Plaque incision and grafting represent the best surgical approach to the Peyronie’s Disease (PD). The grafting procedures must be restricted to patients with normal preoperative status, excessive curvature and/or deformities.
This study aims to investigate whether clinical and biological preoperative characteristics of patients who were to undergo radical prostatectomy were associated with impairment in patient-reported quality of life (QoL) and erectile dysfunction immediately before intervention.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a common condition in adult men. Especially in Europe, increasing attention has been focused on E. angustifolium extracts (EAEs), which are widely used for their positive effects on the symptoms of BPH, although human clinical trials are limited.
A 450-nm blue laser may be suitable to treat benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) due to its haemoglobin absorption characteristic. The present study compared a novel high-power 450-nm semiconductor blue laser with other lasers marketed for in vitro soft tissue ablation, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the 450-nm laser in BPH surgery.
Knockout of ERβ in the mouse leads to nuclear expression of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) in the prostate. To examine whether ERβ plays a similar role in the human prostate, we used four cohorts of men: 1) a Swedish cohort of normal prostates and PCa (prostate cancer) of different Gleason grades; 2) men with […]
Many specific 3D imaging technologies are currently available for the practising urologists. Aim of the study was to assess their perception about different 3D imaging tools in the field of prostate and kidney cancer surgery.
To compare the lymph node (LN) yield and adequacy of laparoscopic pelvic lymph node dissection (L-PLND) and robot-assisted PLND (R-PLND), as PLND is a fundamental component of radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer (BCa), where a positive status is the most powerful predictor of disease recurrence and survival.
