...Ozan Yurdakul; Christian Seitz; Altug Tuncel; Julian Veser; Melanie Hassler; Shahrokh Shariat; Mesut Remzi Introduction: This research investigates the influence of the medical personnel shortage on the treatment of urolithiasis by comparing the complication rates in patients with urinary stones...

... in group 1, group 2, group 3, and group 4 were 18–29 years old, 30–49 years old, 50–64 years old, and over 65 years old, respectively. Propensity score matching analysis was used to homogenize the groups in terms of demographic and clinical properties. Operative results, preoperative complications...

... was to compare the recurrence and complication rates for patients with secondary hydroceles undergoing either pure hydrocelectomy (puH) or hydrocelectomy with additional resection of the epididymis (HRE). Materials and Methods: We reviewed all male patients who underwent surgical therapy for secondary hydroceles...

... complications after kidney transplantation are frequent and may have a negative impact on morbidity and graft function. Treatment modalities include conservative, endourological, and surgical techniques, with variable outcomes. The purpose of this study was to report the incidence, characteristics, treatment...

... were ischemia time and mismatches at the HLA-DR loci. Conclusions: DGF is a common complication in renal transplantation which occurred in 33% of our cases. Important factors identified were donor and recipient age, ischemia time, HLA mismatching, and revision surgery. [email protected]...

...Alkan Çubuk; Ahmet Şahan; Orkunt Özkaptan; Erdinç Dinçer; Onur Karaaslan; Ömer Sarılar; Oktay Akça Introduction: To avoid mesh-related complications, autologous transobturator-tape (a-TOT) technique is a viable option in stress urinary incontinence (SUI) surgery. The method differs from TOT...

...Christopher Goßler; Matthias May; Johannes Breyer; Gjoko Stojanoski; Steffen Weikert; Sebastian Lenart; Anton Ponholzer; Christina Dreissig; Maximilian Burger; Christian Gilfrich; Johannes Bründl; Bernd Rosenhammer Introduction: Lymphocele (LC) formation is a common complication which may cause...

... of operation, stone-free rates, complication rates, and radiation exposure time were analyzed in detail. Results: The mean age of the patients was 45.67 ± 1.50 years and the mean stone size was 316.4 ± 17.95 mm 2 . There was no significant difference regarding the age, BMI, stone burden, and the grade...

..., operation time, complications, and follow-up results. T tests and Fisher’s exact tests were used to compare differences between groups. Results: The mean operation age of the patients was 5.23 years. Sixteen patients had a single, 21 had 2, and 2 patients had 3 previous repairs. The position of the urethral...

... and June 2018 at our department to identify factors predicting postoperative urosepsis. Demographic characteristics, clinical data, operative information, and complications were compared, and risk factors of postoperative urosepsis were identified and analyzed. Results: Of the 1,421 patients treated...

... identified thus far. Therefore, determining the nodal status at surgery may not provide therapeutic benefit. PLND requires additional surgical time and is associated with several complications. Therefore, the indication for PLND should be considered carefully until well-designed prospective randomized trials...

...Qiming Zhang; Runzhuo Ma; Zhuo Liu; Shudong Zhang; Lulin Ma Purpose: To define preoperative predictors and construct a preoperative multivariable model for prediction of postoperative complications in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) after nephrectomy with thrombectomy. Materials...

... (15.4%) had concomitant CIS (2 pTa, 7 pT1, 1 pT2). Twenty were LG (30.8%) and 45 HG (69.2%). Three patients (4.6%) had metastasis at the time of the diagnosis. One (1.5%) and 24 patients (36.9%) had intraoperative and postoperative complications of TURB respectively. The median length of hospital stay...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Hypospadias Stent-free Urethral stricture Complication Numerous tubularization methods had been used before Snodgrass [ 1 ] introduced tubularized incised plate urethroplasty (TIPU). TIPU has rapidly become popular among...

...: Iatrogenic ureter lesions are rare complications, but being able to deal with these frequently requires a urologist’s expertise. Whenever surgeons operate close to the ureters, there is always a risk of an iatrogenic ureter lesion, which in turn requires that all available reconstructive measures are used...

...Laura Mateu Arrom; Carlos Errando Smet; Cristina Gutierrez Ruiz; Pedro Araño; Joan Palou Redorta Introduction: Our aim was to assess the efficacy and complications of pelvic organ prolapse (POP) correction with transvaginal mesh (TVM). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively assessed patients who...

... with conventional adult MC (CC), SC has shorter operation time, less blood loss, less pain score, higher appearance satisfaction rate, and lower complication rate. SC was first developed in China. As recent studies have demonstrated that MC reduced the risk of acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection...

...Carlos Gustavo Trujillo; Mauricio Plata; Juan Ignacio Caicedo; Juan Guillermo Cataño Cataño; Angela Marcela Mariño Alvarez; Diana Castelblanco; Daniela Robledo Objectives: To determine the impact of rectal swabs (RSs) on infectious complications (IC) following prostate biopsy (PB). Methods...

... advertised or of their effectiveness, quality or safety. The publisher and the editor(s) disclaim responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Prostate cancer Complication Prostate biopsy...

... orchiectomy either with (38.6%) or without (61.4%) RI. In all, 89.1% of patients underwent an outpatient procedure. The median body mass index was 26.8 and baseline characteristics between the 2 groups were similar. Overall complications, re-intervention, and bleeding-related complication rates were 2.6, 0.7...