Urology Times staff

Bruce R. Kava, MD, presents the take home messages on BPH/LUTS from the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Mantu Gupta, MD, presents the take home messages on stone disease/endourology from the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Priya Padmanabhan, MD, MPH, presents the take home messages on female urology/incontinence/urodynamics from the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Danil V. Makarov, MD, MHS, presents the take home messages on outcomes analysis.

Edmund Chiong, MD, presents the take home messages on bladder cancer from the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Andrew Wagner, MD, presents the take home messages on kidney cancer from the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Jeannette M. Potts, MD, presents the take home messages on infection and inflammation at the AUA annual meeting in San Diego.

Data from a recent multicenter study provide new evidence that the beta-3 adrenoceptor agonist mirabegron (Myrbetriq) appears to be a viable alternative in patients with overactive bladder (OAB) who are poor responders to antimuscarinic agents or intolerant of their adverse events.

Men with symptomatic BPH had statistically significant, durable improvement in lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) following an office-based, minimally invasive prostatic urethral lift procedure, results of a pivotal randomized trial showed.

Stress incontinent women whose urinary urgency incontinence worsens following a sling procedure are a heterogeneous group, researchers report.

Mesh removal after suburethral sling procedures led to additional incontinence surgery in more than half of patients, including many who were continent prior to sling removal, a study of almost 100 patients showed.

Postmenopausal women may reduce their risk of incident kidney stone disease by engaging in physical activity and avoiding excessive caloric intake, analyses of data collected in the Women’s Health Initiative Observational Study show.

With rates of stone disease on the rise in the U.S., researchers have turned their attention to possible causes. New research exploring the possible influence of diabetes, diet, and even being a surgeon will be presented at the upcoming AUA annual meeting.

In the area of female urology, look for key studies at the AUA annual meeting involving sling surgery, onabotulinumtoxinA (Botox) injections, and reoperation after pelvic organ prolapse surgery with mesh.

The algorithm for urologists’ approach to male voiding symptoms is evolving, according to Steven A. Kaplan, MD, of Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. This will be evident in presentations on BPH and lower urinary tract symptoms at the AUA annual meeting.

As in adult urology, minimally invasive approaches continue to grow in pediatric urology, which is reflected in the research being presented at this year’s AUA annual meeting.

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Uroplasty, Inc. has announced that EmblemHealth now covers percutaneous tibial nerve stimulation using the company's Urgent PC Neuromodulation System for the treatment of overactive bladder and associated symptoms.

A new national survey shows severe physician shortages among certain pediatric specialties, and pediatric urologists top the list of those registering long wait times for pediatric surgical care.

R.D. Levin, MD, has joined Chesapeake Urology Associates and will see patients in the practice's Pine Heights Medical Center and Maple Lawn/Columbia offices in Maryland.

A recently developed genetic test to predict a man's risk for prostate cancer could reduce the need for repeat biopsies in men who have had a negative biopsy, data from a new study indicate.

Many men with prostate cancer do not need immediate treatment, especially if they have low PSA scores or low-risk tumors that are unlikely to grow and spread, according to a multicenter study that suggests such men who undergo radical prostatectomy fare no better than those undergoing observation.

New pediatric urology chiefs have been named at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York and the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Hospitals have virtually given up the search for solo physicians, as a symbol of America's tradition of independent medical practice fades from the scene, a new survey indicates.

Urinary incontinence may be a common problem among young women who have never been pregnant, according to a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Extreme cuts to funding for medical imaging scans in the Medicare fee schedule proposed rule for 2013 are unnecessary, unfounded, and undermine care for the most sick or injure seniors, according to the American College of Radiology.

Physicians should discuss the benefits and risks of PSA testing with their asymptomatic male patients who have life expectancies of greater than 10 years, but the risks outweigh the benefits of men with shorter life expectancies, according to a new evidence-based provisional clinical opinion on prostate cancer screening issued by the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Here are the take-home messages from the 2012 AUA annual meeting-cutting-edge research findings in 15 areas of clinical urology.

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