Residents’ Podcast: Pelvic Drain Placement After Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy
Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann, Jeff Himmelman and Scott Bagnell
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objective
To determine if eliminating the prophylactic placement of a pelvic drain (PD) after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) affects the incidence of early (90-day) postoperative adverse events.
Patients and Methods
In this parallel-group, blinded, non-inferiority trial, we randomised patients planning…
Residents’ Podcast: When to Perform Preoperative Chest CT for RCC Staging
Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann and Jeff Himmelman
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objectives
To provide objective criteria for preoperative staging chest computed tomography (CT) in patients diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) because, in the absence of established indications, the decision for preoperative chest CT remains subjective.
Patients and Methods
A total of 1 946 patients undergoing surgical…
Residents’ Podcast: sRPLND+PLND for ‘node-only’ recurrent PCa
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Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann and Jeff Himmelman
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objectives
To describe the technique of robot-assisted high-extended salvage retroperitoneal and pelvic lymphadenectomy (sRPLND+PLND) for ‘node-only’ recurrent prostate cancer.
Patients and Methods
In all, 10 patients underwent robot-assisted sRPLND+PLND (09/2015–03/2016) for ‘node-only’ recurrent prostate cancer, as identified by 11C-acetate…
Residents’ Podcast: Ureteric stent dwelling time – a risk factor for post-ureteroscopy sepsis
Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann and Jeff Himmelman
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objectives
To evaluate the association between stent dwelling time and sepsis after ureteroscopy, and identify risk factors for sepsis in this setting.
Patients and Methods
The prospectively collected database of a single institution was queried for all patients who underwent ureteroscopy for stone extraction between 2010 and 2016. Demographic,…
Residents’ Podcast: Long term follow up of erectile dysfunction after RP using nerve grafts
Jesse Ory, Kyle Lehmann and Jeff Himmelman
Department of Urology, Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS, Canada
Abstract
Objective
To study a novel penile reinnervation technique using four sural nerve grafts and end-to-side neurorraphies connecting bilaterally the femoral nerve and the cavernous corpus and the femoral nerve and the dorsal penile nerves.
Patients and Methods
Ten patients (mean [± sd; range] age 60.3 [± 4.8; 54–68] years), who had undergone…
Residents’ Podcast: NICE Guidance – GreenLight XPS for treating benign prostatic hyperplasia
Veeru Kasivisvanathan
SpR in Urology & NIHR Doctoral Fellow, University College London & University College Hospital London.
This National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance is the current, unaltered NICE guidance at time of publication. BJUI publishes selected NICE guidance relevant to urologists to extend their distribution and promote best practice.
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The case for adopting GreenLight XPS for treating benign prostatic…
Beyond our wildest dreams: BJUI 2013
Editor-in-Chief Prokar Dasgupta summarises the success of the BJUI over 2013. Read the December 2013 editorial for more.
For more on podcasts, including how to record your own, go to Podcasts Made Simple.
Beyond our wildest dreams
In this podcast Prokar Dasgupta summarises the success of the BJUI over 2013. For more on podcasts, including how to record your own, go to Podcasts Made Simple.
If anyone had suggested to me in January 2013 that our full article downloads would increase by 15% and the Melbourne Consensus Statement on PSA testing would be viewed over 5000 times @ BJUI.org, I would have stared at them in disbelief. The launch of our web portal in addition to an innovative paper journal, has achieved…
How to record a Podcast for the BJUI
Listen to find out how to record your own Podcast for BJUI.
Face-to-Face with John Fitzpatrick
An interview with John M. Fitzpatrick
BJUI December 2012, Volume 110, Issue 11
'Face to Face' is an interview with personalities in the urology field. As a successor to BJUI's 'Conversations' feature, 'Face to Face' is fashioned after the highly acclaimed BBC television series of the same name where former British politician John Freeman interviewed famous men and women with an insightful and probing style.
In this edition of 'Face to Face', BJUI Associate Editor Roger Kirby (and a former…