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Practice complication rates following surgical treatment for BPH are higher than indicated by clinical trials, according to a recent study.

Phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors are safe and effective, alone or in combination with alpha-blockers, against lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to BPH, according to a recent systematic review and meta-analysis.

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Three fourths of patients with refractory urothelial cancer had stable disease or better response when treated with the angiogenesis inhibitor pazopanib (Votrient), Italian researchers recently reported.

Ureteroscopy has overtaken extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy as the treatment of choice for kidney stones, Canadian researchers recently reported.

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Physician opinion is divided almost evenly on the question of whether to prescribe phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitors to patients for non-medical indications, a survey of Israeli doctors showed.

For many urologists, practice finances were worse in 2011 than they were a year earlier, and few have seen improved revenues, results of an exclusive national survey indicate.

A recent study revealed that the use of laparoendoscopic single-site surgery to perform radical nephrectomy is just as effective as conventional laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, attaining excellent surgical and post-surgical outcomes.

Urology Times asked urologists if they would use botulinum toxin to treat urinary incontinence.

In men scheduled for transrectal prostate biopsy, 70% of the fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli isolated from fecal flora represented the epidemic, multidrug-resistant ST131 strain, a recent phylogenic and virulence factor analysis found.

Findings from a study of patients who underwent surgical mesh removal over a 6-year period will hopefully help surgeons with their management decisions and counseling efforts, UCLA researchers reported at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

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In treating nocturia related to urgency, flexible-dose fesoterodine (Toviaz) demonstrates statistical superiority to placebo in several areas, according to a study presented at the AUA annual meeting here.

Men who took high-dose vitamin D prior to radical prostatectomy had significant reductions in prostate levels of the proliferation marker Ki-67 and increased expression of microRNAs associated with tumor suppression, according to a recent study from Canadian and U.S. researchers.

Internet-marketed medication purporting to be a generic form of the phosphodiesterase type-5 inhibitor Viagra (sildenafil citrate) is likely to be neither generic nor Viagra but instead is an expertly packaged mix of materials such as paint, insecticides, rat poisons, boric acid, and gypsum, according to a study presented at the AUA annual meeting in Atlanta.

Antibiotic prophylaxis appears to be beneficial in patients undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy.

In patients with stone disease, lowering the tube voltage set in dual-energy computed tomography by as much as 38% allowed a dose reduction without impairing stone analysis, a recent investigation showed.

Findings from a recent study support the use of a deeper incision in microdissection testicular sperm extraction when no sperm-containing tubules are found on the initial wide incision.

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While many characteristics and conditions are associated with nocturia, patient age is the only factor that can significantly be linked with its development, Dutch researchers report.

Analyses of data collected in a large series of women who underwent concurrent anti-incontinence and prolapse surgery show the patients achieved a high rate of satisfaction overall.

In patients with symptoms suggestive of BPH, nocturia fluctuates but does not significantly progress over the course of 1-year follow-up, according to findings from a recent international study.

Urology Times asks five urologists about diagnostic tests and practicing 'defensive' medicine.

Patients with nonmuscle-invasive bladder cancer had significantly better recurrence-free survival when treated with the Connaught strain of bacillus Calmette-Gu?rin compared with the Tice strain, according to results of a randomized trial.

Excess body weight correlated with a significantly higher 5-year risk of biochemical recurrence after surgery for clinically localized prostate cancer, according to a study reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting in Chicago.

Noted Irish playwright Oscar Wilde once mused, "Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." Thanks to a foundation strengthened by direct and indirect participation in advocacy campaigns across the country, the urologic community secured positive policy outcomes in the first several months of 2012.