AUA Western Section 2008 - Clinical Efficacy of the InVance™ Male Sling and Patient Satisfaction in Men with Mild to Severe Stress Urinary Incontinence - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This was the first of two session-concluding papers presented on the topic of male continence.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Non-surgical Minimally Invasive Treatment for Stress Incontinence - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The Pelvic Floor Medicine session of the Western Section American Urological Association (WSAUA) opened with a State-of-the-Art lecture by Dr. Rodney Appell.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Pharmacokinetics of Oxybutynin Topical Gel: Effects of Showering, Sunscreen Application, and Person-to-Person Transference - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - An interesting study was presented by Kim Caramelli, evaluating the pharmacokinetics of topical oxybutynin gel as affected by showering, sunscreen application, and person-to-person transference.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - The Effect of Pudendal Nerve Stimulation on Cystometric Parameters in Patients with Refractory Urge Incontinence - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - The Stanford University group, headed by Dr. Craig Comiter, reported on their experience with effects of pudendal nerve stimulation on urodynamics parameters in patients with refractory urinary urgency and frequency.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Defining Success Following Sling Surgery: Association of Satisfaction with Patient Reported Outcomes - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - One increasingly common and somewhat controversial topic of discussion revolves around what outcomes measures should be assessed following anti-incontinence procedures.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Three Years Follow up of the ARIS™ Trans-Obturator Tape - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Saad Juma presented his experience in 234 patients who had completed a 12 to 26 month (mean 23.3) questionnaire follow up after placement of an Aris™ transobuturator sling.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Solifenacin Succinate Prevents Urodynamic and Detrusor Changes Associated with Bladder Outlet Obstruction in a Mouse Model - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - This interesting study, the second of two presented by the Stanford University group, suggested that solifenacin reverses urodynamic and histologic detrusor changes associated with bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in a mouse model.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Bladder Dysfunction After Artificial Urinary Sphincter Insertion - Highlight
Thursday, 06 November 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Ferreira-Mehdizadeh from the Tower Urology Institute for Continence presented her group’s retrospective examination of thirty-four patients who underwent artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) placement for treatment of post-prostatectomy incontinence - with specific attention to postoperative voiding dysfunction.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Urolithiasis: Metabolic Evaluation and Medical Treatment - Highlight
Friday, 31 October 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - Margaret Pearle presented a State-of-the-Art lecture on the metabolic aspects of urolithiasis at the 84th annual meeting of the Western section of the AUA.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Robot Assisted Radical Cystectomy: Is it Ready for Prime Time? - Highlight
Friday, 31 October 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - A State-of-the-Art lecture by Erik Castle addressed the question of whether robotic cystectomy was ready for “prime time.”
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Targeted Therapies in Prostate and Renal Cancers - Highlight
Friday, 31 October 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In this session, Christopher P. Evans presented a State-of-the-Art lecture on molecular targets in prostate and renal cancers.
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AUA Western Section 2008 - Genomic Biomarkers for Risk Stratification in Prostate Cancer - Highlight
Friday, 31 October 2008
MONTEREY, CA, USA (UroToday.com) - In his State-of-the-Art talk, Colin Collins discussed biomarkers for prostate cancer (CaP) risk stratification.
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