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Open Journal of Urology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in urology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in urology related problems. All manuscripts must be…
Emma H. Ramahi, Katherine C. Ansley, Gregory P. Swanson, Fei Du, Joseph W. Basler
Aims: The relationships between obesity, diabetes and prostate cancer are unclear. A retrospective study was performed to determine the effects of body mass index (BMI) and diabetes on patients with intermediate to high grade prostate cancer treated with radi…
Guido Barbagli, Giorgio Guazzoni, Salvatore Sansalone, Giuseppe Romano, Massimo Lazzeri
Purpose: To test the hypothesis if dilation or direct visual internal urethrotomy (DVIU) are predictive of urethroplasty failure. Retrospective study, from 1999 to 2010, including184 patients (median age 37 years) who underwent ventral onlay oral graft urethr…
Hosein Karami, Alireza Bagher Tabrizi, Babak Javanmard, Hooman Mokhtarpour, Behzad Lotfi
Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine urodynamic findings in young women (<40 years old) with bothersome lower urinary tract symptoms. Materials and Methods: The records of 315 women were reviewed during 2002 to 2010. Those with neurological disease,…
Mohemid M. Al-Jebouri, Nadia Atalah
Objective: The main objective of the present study is to assess the interrelationship between renal calculi, selected ions, thyroid and parathyroid hormones and urinary tract infections. Methods: This study was carried out on 150 patients attended Tikrit Teac…
Amauri Braga Simonetti, Carlos Teodósio Da Ros, Cintia de David, Karen Campos, Paulo Renato Petersen Behar, Eduardo Ribeiro, Gelsa Edith Navarro Hidalgo
Purpose: Identifying the source of stone formation in recurrent stone formers has always been a big problem. Material and Methods: In this study kidney stones from 52 patients were submitted to direct examination by scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) after…
Michael S. Floyd Jr., Karen Chan, Andrew D. Baird
Artificial urinary sphincters are commonly used in males with intrinsic sphincter deficiency to improve continence and quality of life. Complications include erosion, mechanical failure and infection. Frequently, a staged approach involving removal of the dev…
Shivon N. Abdullah, Adamantios M. Mellis, Corinne L. Puzio, Daniel J. Culkin
Anthogranulomatous cystitis (XC) is an inflammatory condition of the urinary bladder that is benign and rarely seen. XC is a unique disease in which there have been only 26 cases described in the literature, including our case. Patients with XC often present…
Axel Hegele, Dirk Wappelhorst, Zoltan Varga, Fabian Brüning, Peter Olbert, Carsten Frohme, Rainer Hofmann
<i>Background</i>: To evaluate aetiology of acute scrotum after surgical exploration suspicious for spermatic cord torsion, to compare surgical with clinical findings and to support the clinician distinguishing spermatic cord torsion from other diseases mimic…
Gao-Yan Deng, Li-Yu Zhang, Zhong-Ming Li, Ying-Quan Wen
<b>Objective</b>: To detect bacteriuria or funguria by urine culture taken from the renal pelvis directly before Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty. <b>Methods</b>: 290 patients who underwent Anderson-Hynes pyeloplasty for ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJO) we…
Shahram Gooran, Sevil Nasirmohtaram, Mohammad Ghasem Mohseni, Behzad Narouie
We investigated the efficacy of oral desmopressin in the treatment of adult nocturia. In an analytical study between 2007-2009 in Zahedan-Iran, Thirty patients ≥55 years with verified nocturia (≥two voids/night) were enrolled. Patients with a history of an ob…
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