SUFU 2009 - Outcomes and Complications of Sling and Other Anti-Incontinence Surgery in Elderly Women - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - The afternoon session continued with a State-of-the-Art Lecture presented by Jennifer Anger, MD of UCLA.
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SUFU 2009 - Baseline Sexual Function and Characteristics in a Population of Women Undergoing Sacral Neuromodulation for Refractory Overactive Bladder - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - It is well known that women with overactive bladder have lower sexual function scores and there is some evidence that sacral neuromodulation can positively influence sexual health.
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SUFU 2009 - MRI and Sacral Neuromodulation, Fact, Fiction, and Future - Fact: An Engineering Perspective - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Tom Bombeck from Medtronic gave a very technical presentation on some of the issues regarding different types of MRI scans and compatibility with InterStim®.
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SUFU 2009 - MRI and Sacral Neuromodulation, Fact, Fiction, and Future - Fiction: Implanter Survey - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Charles Beamon, MD presented data on an Internet-based survey of active InterStim® implanters and their experience with MRI scanning in their patients.
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SUFU 2009 - MRI and Sacral Neuromodulation, Fact, Fiction, and Future - Future: SUFU / ISPiN Position Statement, Question and Answer - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Steven Siegel, MD spoke next and reviewed some previous false assumptions regarding MRI and InterStim®.
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SUFU 2009 - Sacral Neuromodulation in the Elderly Population - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Joe Mobley presented his group’s experience with 26 women aged 70 and older undergoing InterStim®.
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SUFU 2009 - Sacral Neuromodulation for the Treatment of Simultaneous Urge Urinary and Urge Fecal Incontinence - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Dennis Kim began his presentation by noting that sacral neuromodulation is a frequently used treatment in Europe for fecal incontinence, and less so in the United States.
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SUFU 2009 - Use and Management of InterStim® Sacral Neuromodulation in Pregnant Patients: A Survey of Active Implanters - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - This is a subset of data that Dr. Steven Siegal presented earlier regarding the Internet-based survey of InterStim® implanters.
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SUFU 2009 - Pudendal Neuromodulation as a Viable Option for Symptom Refractory to Sacral Neuromodulation - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Kenneth Peters gave a lively presentation on his experience with pudendal neuromodulation.
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SUFU 2009 - Bowel and Pelvic Symptoms Improve After Sacral Neuromodulation for Overactive Bladder: The Preliminary Results - Session Highlights
Monday, 09 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - This group presented their findings regarding symptomatic improvement over a wide variety of domains in patients undergoing sacral neuromodulation for overactive bladder.
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SUFU 2009 - Collective Research Through SUFU - Session Highlights
Friday, 06 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - The Friday morning session included several presentations by SUFU officers on collective research sponsored or organized by SUFU.
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SUFU 2009 - The American Board of Urology Perspectives on Subspecialty Training in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery - Session Highlights
Friday, 06 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. William Steers discussed the American Board of Urology’s perspective on subspecialty training in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery.
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SUFU 2009 - OMIT (Outcomes Measures in Incontinence Treatment) Study - Session Highlights
Friday, 06 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Philippe Zimmern discussed the OMIT (Outcomes Measures in Incontinence Treatment) survey which was announced at the 2008 SUFU winter meeting.
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SUFU 2009 - SUFU Post Prostatectomy Incontinence Study - Session Highlights
Friday, 06 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Victor Nitti outlined the SUFU post-prostatectomy incontinence study which is the first multi-institution SUFU research foundation study.
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SUFU 2009 - Does the Degree of Bladder Neck Coaptation Matter? Cystoscopic Study in Females with Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) Secondary to Intrinsic Sphincteric Deficiency (ISD) - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - The authors looked at a small group of women undergoing urethral bulking procedures with either collagen or macroplastique.
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SUFU 2009 - Single Dose Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Vaginal Surgery: Is it Safe? - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - In this presentation, Dr. Saad Juma pointed out that much of our practice regarding antibiotic prophylaxis for operative procedures is based on data from other specialties, and may not be appropriate for urological or gynecological surgery.
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SUFU 2009 - Single Institution Experience of Peri-operative and Short-term Complications with the Prolift Repair System for Pelvic Organ Prolapse - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - This presentation outlined a 3 year study of 3 surgeons performing mesh kit prolapse repair with the Gynecare Prolift system.
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SUFU 2009 - Operative Characteristics and Early Outcomes of Laparoscopic Single-Port Abdominal Sacrocolpopexy - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Single-Port laparoscopy has been used for numerous surgical procedures including nephrectomy, cholecystectomy, colectomy and hysterectomy.
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SUFU 2009 - Safety of Autologous Muscle-Derived Cells (AMDCS) as Therapy for Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) in a Randomized, Blinded Trial - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - This was essentially a safety and dose-finding study using AMDCS as treatment for SUI in women.
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SUFU 2009 - Defining the Educational Gap in Urodynamics Training Between Residency and the First 18 Months in Practice - Session Highlights
Thursday, 05 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Elizabeth Mueller expanded on an earlier presentation by providing additional data from the American Board of Urology (ABU) practice logs.
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SUFU 2009 - Urodynamics: Utilization Patterns Amongst Practitioners - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) -
Elizabeth Mueller MD from Loyola University began by presenting her research on urodynamic utilization and practice patterns among urologists.
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SUFU 2009 - Urodynamics: Educating Residents, Fellows and Practicing Urologists - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Christian Winters, MD from LSU followed with a talk on urodynamic education.
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SUFU 2009 - Panel Discussion: Practical Use of Urodynamics in Specific Conditions - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - In this Q & A panel discussion, Dr. Roger Dmochowski began with a discussion regarding the future of urodynamics with respect to likely downward pressure on utilization and cost of testing in any future health care reform in the U.S.
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SUFU 2009 - Female LUTS - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - In this session, Nirit Rosenblum, MD reviewed the use of UDS in Female LUTS.
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SUFU 2009 - Neurogenic Voiding Dysfunction - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - Dr. Timothy Boone presented a talk on UDS in neurogenic voiding dysfunction.
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SUFU 2009 - Urodynamics: Best Practices - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - In this session, Harriet Scarpero, MD reviewed proposed urodynamic “best practice” guidelines which, in addition to reviewing the important points of the earlier talks, included recommendations on conducting studies.
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SUFU 2009 - The UITN SISTEr STUDY: What Did We Learn from All the Urodynamics Data? - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - The next three talks were focused around the Urinary Incontinence Treatment Network’s SISTeR study and this group of presentations was moderated by Kathleen Kobashi, MD.
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SUFU 2009 - Male LUTS - Session Highlights
Tuesday, 03 March 2009
LAS VEGAS, NV, USA (UroToday.com) - This was the first of several talks and a panel discussion on the practical use of urodynamic studies (UDS) in specific conditions.
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