Emerging treatment options for the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
September 7th 2021“When a man initially presents with metastatic disease, or fails initial systemic therapy, our approach has to be different. We are more concerned that their disease is more aggressive,” says Leonard Gomella, MD.
Transperineal biopsy device PrecisionPoint shows promise
September 7th 2021“Through these 2 small punctures, we can manipulate the device with the methodology to sample the entire prostate, both anterior apical and the posterior regions, where we find the vast majority of our cancers,” says Matthew A. Allaway, MD.
Mental health care and gender dysphoria in transgender and gender-diverse youth
September 6th 2021“A lot of clinicians are seeing transgender and gender-diverse people in their practice, whether it’s urology, whether it’s primary care, whether it’s other subspecialties…[They should have an understanding] that transgender and gender-diverse people are at a higher risk of a multitude of mental health diagnoses,” says David A. Klein, MD, MPH.
Advantages of transperineal biopsies over transrectal biopsies
September 5th 2021“The transperineal [prostate biopsy] approach is safer because the needles are passed through the perineal skin…so, we can sterilize that skin and if we enter through that passageway, we mitigate, if not eliminate, the risk of infection and sepsis,” says Matthew J. Allaway, MD.
Assessing the disparities between mental health among transgender and cisgender youth
September 4th 2021“Transgender and gender-diverse people are at a higher risk of a multitude of mental health diagnoses, [which] really lends itself to a sensitive psycho-social history regardless of the specialty,” says David A. Klein, MD, MPH.
Investigators assess the satisfaction of telehealth visits in FPMRS patients
September 1st 2021“We found a majority of patients with televisits were satisfied, with many saying it was easy to schedule, easy to comfortably share sensitive information with their doctor, and with the most surprising [finding] being 80% saying they would choose it again over an in-person visit,” says Christina Shin, BA.
Dr. Seth advises individualized counseling for patients using Botox treatments and blood thinners
August 31st 2021“In terms of patients having Botox, we have to be individualized to some extent where if you feel someone's at very high risk of bleeding…then maybe you will stop the blood thinners,” says Jai Seth, MD.
Urology Malpractice: Kenton H. Steele, Esq, discusses expert witnesses from the attorney perspective
August 25th 2021“Their opinions do need to be credible and be honest, but there is some component of being able to walk a line between providing a candid, unbiased opinion, and knowing that you are retained to represent a specific side in that case,” says Kenton H. Steele, Esq.
Noticing the patterns of fear and frustration among patients regarding UTIs
August 24th 2021“[Patients] want to ensure that all of their episodes of UTIs are seen as a chronic condition that’s really debilitating in their life, and not just single episodes for which they need antibiotics,” says Victoria C. Scott, MD.
Dr. William C. Reha discusses scope of practice issues in urology
August 23rd 2021"A lot of ancillary providers want more privileges that the physician has, and we have to be the guardians and the reason we're doing this is to protect our patients so that they get the best care available to them," says William C. Reha, MD, MBA.
Dr. Victoria Scott discusses patient frustration with treatment courses for recurrent UTIs
August 23rd 2021“The frustration component that we found and heard amongst these women was with their providers really focusing their care around antibiotics…[and] not spending enough time on education with prevention strategies,” says Victoria C. Scott, MD.