To evaluate the impact of chronic stone recurrence on an individual’s quality of life using the validated Wisconsin Stone Quality of Life (WISQOL) questionnaire. We collected cross-sectional data on patients with kidney stones from 14 institutions in North America.
Parathyroidectomy (PTX) is routinely performed in hypercalciuric renal stone patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). However, some data indicate a persistent stone activity following PTX, raising the issue of the link between PHPT and stone disease.
To describe and critically discuss the most recent evidence regarding the stone management during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and post-COVID-19 era. There is a need to plan for resuming the normal elective stone surgery in the post-COVID era, keeping a clear record of all surgeries that is being deferred and identifying subgroups of surgical […]
To gain insight from the experience of learning HoLEP, teaching HoLEP, and the current HoLEP practice patterns of fellowship-trained endourologists. Surveys were electronically distributed to U.
There is an ongoing explosion in the amount and quality, of research in the field of Endourology. From a solid basis of systematic reviews and small, single centre trials it has been possible to design large randomised controlled trials in the UK and in the USA.
Chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS) is one of the most common outpatient urological diagnoses, and its incidence is increasing. Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) has been suggested for relieving local perineal symptoms associated with chronic prostatitis/CPPS.
To analyze the literature on current conservative treatment options for Peyronie’s disease (PD). Conservative therapy with intralesional collagenase clostridium histolyticum (CCH) is safe and efficacious in either the acute or chronic phases of PD.
Accumulating evidence has highlighted the contribution of oxidative stress and sperm DNA fragmentation (SDF) in the pathophysiology of male infertility. SDF has emerged as a novel biomarker of risk stratification for patients undergoing assisted reproductive technologies.
When should cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation analysis be recommended in infertile men based on andrological findings? CFTR mutation analysis is recommended in all men with unexplained azoospermia in the presence of normal gonadotropin levels.
Patients with premature ejaculation (PE) are often diagnosed as having a comorbid erectile dysfunction (ED). When evaluating erectile function in PE patients with the popular International Index of Erectile Function-5 (IIEF-5, or Sexual Health Inventory for Men [SHIM]), question #5 (Q5) about sexual satisfaction in the intercourse often lowers the total score of the questionnaire, […]
