Urinary Diversion After Radical Cystectomy: Choosing the Right Reconstruction for Each Patient Introduction When a bladder must be removed — whether for aggressive cancer, intractable dysfunction, or ...
Laparoscopic Live Donor Nephrectomy: How Minimally Invasive Surgery Transformed Kidney Donation Introduction For someone willing to give a kidney to save a loved one’s life, the surgical experie...
Primary Nocturnal Enuresis in Children: Understanding Bedwetting and Solving It Introduction Every night, millions of children around the world go to bed dreading the same thing — waking up in wet she...
Urinary Tract Infections: What You Need to Know About One of Medicine’s Most Common Conditions Few medical conditions are as ubiquitous — or as frequently misunderstood — as urinary tract infect...
Posterior Urethral Valves: The Hidden Obstruction That Threatens Boys’ Kidneys for Life Introduction In the developing male fetus, a small fold of tissue in the posterior urethra — the tube that...
Renal Cell Carcinoma: Understanding Kidney Cancer and How It Is Treated Today Every year, more than 430,000 people worldwide receive a diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma — the most common form of kidne...
Urethral Stricture and Buccal Mucosal Graft Urethroplasty: A Modern Solution to an Ancient Problem There is an uncomfortable irony in the fact that one of the most effective surgical repairs in urolog...
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: What Every Man Should Know About the Enlarged Prostate If you are a man over 50, there is a reasonable chance your urologist has already mentioned it — or will soon. Beni...
Does How You’re Positioned During Kidney Stone Surgery Actually Matter? What the Research Says About PCNL and Arterial Blood Gases Kidney stones affect roughly one in ten people at some point in...
Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the clinical efficacy of bladder hydrodistention and intravesical sodium hyaluronate in the treatment of interstitial cystitis (IC). Materials and Methods: Twenty-one pat...