Review Examines Urologic Complications of Sexual Trauma among Male Survivors of Torture
Tuesday, 15 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Thousands of asylum seekers and refugees enter Western countries every year. Between 1991 and 2000, about 1 million applied for asylum in the United States.
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Large Single Institution Experience With Botulinum Toxin A Injections For Voiding Dysfunction
Friday, 11 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Several different types of botulinum toxin are known, and botulinum toxin Type A (BTX-A) is used by urologists to treat patients with spinal cord injury and subsequent detrusor external sphincter dyssynergia (DESD).
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Urological Injuries During Hysterectomy: A 6-Year Retrospective Review
Thursday, 27 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Dr. Gowri Dorairajan and colleagues from the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research in Pondicherry, India reviewed their cases of urological injuries during hysterectomy to determine the incidence, risk factors, and management associated with these complications.
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Expert Discusses the Art of Anastomotic Posterior Urethroplasty Over a 27 ?Year Experience
Friday, 21 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Strictures of the posterior urethra continue to represent a real surgical challenge and pose one of the most difficult management problems encountered in urology.
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European Association of Urology Publishes Summary Guidelines on Urologic Trauma
Tuesday, 04 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Genitourinary injuries can lead to significant morbidity and mortality, but the incidence, severity and optimal treatment of these injuries has not been established in population-based cross sectional studies.
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Study Reinforces the Utility of Computed Tomography to Confirm Organ Injury in Blunt Abdominal Trauma Patients
Monday, 20 December 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - It is generally accepted that hemodynamically stable blunt abdominal trauma patients with an abnormal clinical examination require abdominal computed tomography (CT) for further evaluation.
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Revisiting the Role of Ultrasonography in the Evaluation of Solid-Organ Injury after Blunt Trauma
Monday, 20 December 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - A scanning method called focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) was devised with a primary objective of developing a procedure that could detect intraperitoneal fluid and could be used easily by surgeons and emergency medicine physicians with limited experience in ultrasonography.
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Review of Oral Complications After Buccal Mucosa Harvest Reveals That Procedure is Not Without Morbidity
Thursday, 04 November 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - The use of buccal mucosa in urethroplasty has steadily increased since the initial report in 1993 by El-Kasaby.
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Laparoscopic Cryoablation of Solid Renal Masses: Intermediate Term Follow-Up.
Wednesday, 03 November 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Needle ablative therapy for small renal cell carcinomas continues to be a hot
(or in this case "cold") topic in Urology.
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Intraoperative Local Anesthesia Decreases Postoperative Parenteral Opioid Requirements for Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Renal and Adrenal surgery: a randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo Controlled Investigation
Tuesday, 02 November 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - In this prospective study, 72 patients undergoing standard laparoscopy or hand-assisted laparoscopy were randomized to receive 30cc of 0.5% bupivacaine injected at the outset of the procedure (15 ml into the handport site and 15 ml equally divided up among the other ports or 30 ml divided among all the ports in the
standard laparoscopy group).
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Clinical Utility of Dual Active Deflection Flexible Ureteroscope During Upper Tract Ureteropyeloscopy
Friday, 29 October 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Access is king! The major problem with flexible ureteroscopy is often the
inability to either access the site of pathology or once accessed, to be able to successfully pass a biopsy
forceps, laser probe, or similar instrument to the area of interest.
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Selective Operative Management of Major Blunt Renal Trauma Reasonable in Hemodynamically Stable Patients
Friday, 01 October 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Blunt trauma is the mechanism of injury in 80-90% of traumatically injured kidneys. Minor renal injuries, comprised of grades 1-3, represent the majority of these injuries, and the consensus is that the vast majority can be managed non-operatively (conservatively).
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Surgery Generally Better than Conservative Management for Penile Fracture
Thursday, 23 September 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For patients with a ruptured tunica albuginea, conservative therapy is likely to lead to a good outcome if the injury is uncomplicated, physicians in Switzerland report.
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Holmium Laser Core-Through Urethrotomy for Traumatic Obliterative Strictures of the Urethra Proves to be Safe and Simple
Thursday, 16 September 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Urethral trauma that occurs after pelvic fractures often leads to obliterative strictures with extensive fibrosis.
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Repeat Urethrotomy and Dilation for Urethral Stricture Disease is neither Clinically Effective Nor Cost-Effective
Monday, 30 August 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Optical urethrotomy and urethral dilation are simple endoscopic procedures that are currently the most common procedures performed for the management of new and recurrent urethral strictures.
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Urologic Trauma and Reconstruction 
