Urology
Conference Coverage
POISE-3 backs wider use of tranexamic acid in noncardiac surgery
The antifibrinolytic agent significantly reduced the risk for bleeding in a wide array of major noncardiac surgeries, suggesting an expanded role...
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Surgeons successfully reattach testis after wrong-site surgery
“The take-home message is that microsurgery can be used to reattach an organ, in the case of a wrong-site surgery.”
Opinion
Detransition, baby: Examining factors leading to ‘detransitioning’ and regret in the transgender community
Comments about the finality of gender-affirmative procedures by cisgender people reveal a more deep-seated issue – general distrust of individual...
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Mistake: Doc does vasectomy instead of circumcision; patient sues; more
No expert testimony is needed to establish medical malpractice if the lack of care is so obvious that it’s within the comprehension of a layperson...
Feature
MDs doing wrong-site surgery: Why is it still happening?
“When they make a wrong-site error, usually the first thing they say is, ‘I never thought this would happen to me.’ ”
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Pelvic floor dysfunction imaging: New guidelines provide recommendations
“These diseases do not choose an arbitrary side in the pelvis ... Instead, [they] affect the entire pelvis and require a multidisciplinary and...
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Pubovaginal sling during urethral diverticulectomy reduces stress incontinence
The reduction in stress urinary incontinence was significant, but it was associated with other adverse effects.
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Stress incontinence surgery found to improve sexual dysfunction
There were no significant differences between the four surgical treatments for stress urinary incontinence.
Commentary
Commentary: Should AVFs be ligated after kidney transplant?
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Clinical trial: Robotic or open radical cystectomy in treating patients with bladder cancer
Patients are eligible for the study if they are indicated for radical cystectomy, have Tis-T3 urothelial cancer, and meet surgical candidate...
Conference Coverage
Gap in care: Female patients with incontinence
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