Bogdan Geavlete Articles

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - As modern urology faces a tremendous competition between the various modalities of BPH endoscopic treatment, according to the EAU Guidelines, monopolar TURP still represents the “gold-standard” therapeutic approach in cases of average size prostates.^[1]

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The endoscopic treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) patients in general, and in cases of patients with large bladder tumors, in particular, is still marked by the potential hazards of bladder wall perforation, intra- and postoperative bleeding (eventually requiring blood transfusions or re-intervention), urinary retention by blood clots and obturator nerve stimulation, mostly specific to the lateral wall location.

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - As the endoscopic treatment of large bladder tumors (>3 cm) continues to raise significant problems in terms of perioperative complications and recurrence rates, bipolar plasma vaporization (BPV) was applied in our experience with good initial results during the past few years.

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Upper urinary tract transitional-cell carcinoma (UUT-TCC) diagnosis continues to represent a significant challenge in the urologic field.

BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Bladder cancer, the most common malignancy of the urinary tract, remains an important and difficult to treat pathology in modern urology, marked by the failure to detect non-visible lesions in white light as well as well as by the incomplete resection of the primary tumors.