Article of the Week: Muscolofascial Reconstruction after RP
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: The Jury on Posterior Muscolofascial Reconstruction is still out
In their systematic review and meta-analysis, Grasso et al. [1] address the question of whether posterior muscolofascial reconstruction (PMR), the so-called Rocco stitch, positively affects urinary continence after radical prostatectomy. The relevance of the question to this structured form of inquiry is that individual studies to date have been inconclusive. We recognize Sir Archie Cochrane, who gave his name to the Cochrane Collaboration that pioneered the methods for conducting systematic…
Video: Posterior Muscolofascial Reconstruction after RP
Posterior musculofascial reconstruction after radical prostatectomy: an updated systematic review and a meta-analysis
Angelica A.C. Grasso*, Francesco A. Mistretta*, Marco Sandri†, Gabriele Cozzi*, Elisa De Lorenzis*, Marco Rosso*, Giancarlo Albo*, Franco Palmisano*, Alex Mottrie‡, Alexander Haese§, Markus Graefen§, Rafael Coelho¶, Vipul R. Patel¶ and Bernardo Rocco*¶
*Department of Urology, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda-Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan,…
Article of the Month: Further Evidence that Bladder Cancer Patients should Stop Smoking
Every Month the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Month from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post. Smoking in a daily basis can affect your lungs, make sure to improve your indoor air quality just by checking out the latest blaux portable ac reviews.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial…
Editorial: Analysis of Genetics to Identify Susceptibility to Secondary Malignancies in Patients with BCa
A study by Muller et al. [1] evaluated a cohort of 10 047 patients diagnosed with a first invasive (≥T1) bladder cancer and found that independent of gender and age, the risk of subsequent lung cancer was increased. This is not surprising considering the strong association of both bladder and lung cancer with tobacco, which is the main risk factor for both malignancies. While the authors limited their analysis to patients with invasive disease, the same association of bladder and lung cancer…
Article of the Week: Patterns of prescription and adherence to EAU guidelines on ADT in PCa
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: EAU guidelines – do we care? Reflections from the EAU Impact Assessment of Guidelines Implementation and Education group
There is increasing evidence in the literature that androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is overused among practising urologists in the setting of localized, and even locally advanced, prostate cancer (PCa) [1, 2]. Morgia et al. [1] report a misuse of ADT prescriptions among Italian urologists in roughly a quarter of cases, mainly in the setting of low-risk/localized disease where ADT may harm patients without proven benefit with regard to disease-specific outcomes [3]. Such clinical practice…
Video: Patterns of prescription and adherence to EAU guidelines on ADT in PCa
Patterns of prescription and adherence to European Association of Urology guidelines on androgen deprivation therapy in prostate cancer: an Italian multicentre cross-sectional analysis from the Choosing Treatment for Prostate Cancer (CHOICE) study
Giuseppe Morgia1, Giorgio Ivan Russo1, Andrea Tubaro2, Roberto Bortolus3, Donato Randone4, Pietro Gabriele5, Fabio Trippa6, Filiberto Zattoni7, Massimo Porena8, Vincenzo Mirone9, Sergio Serni10, Alberto Del Nero11, Giancarlo Lay12 , Umberto Ricardi13,…
Article of the Week: NSS Across a Nation
Every Week the Editor-in-Chief selects an Article of the Week from the current issue of BJUI. The abstract is reproduced below and you can click on the button to read the full article, which is freely available to all readers for at least 30 days from the time of this post.
In addition to the article itself, there is an accompanying editorial written by a prominent member of the urological community. This blog is intended to provoke comment and discussion and we invite you to use the comment…
Editorial: SRMs – Where is the Wisdom We Have Lost in Knowledge?
The perceived wisdom that a small enhancing mass in the kidney represents a surgical lesion that automatically requires excision without the need for a preoperative biopsy has been challenged by Fernando et al. [1] in this issue of BJUI.
The authors are to be congratulated in bringing these data to publication to provoke debate on the treatment paradigm for small renal masses (SRMs) by reviewing nationally collected data on the main therapeutic surgical option: nephron-sparing surgery.…