Category: Urology / Nephrology

UroToday.com- Abuse in all of its forms is extremely prevalent in the United States. In 16 cross-sectional community sample surveys of women a 16.8% prevalence of childhood sexual abuse was calculated. Women with a history of abuse often report more physical problems and chronic pain in adulthood than women without a history of abuse. Peters and colleagues from Royal Oak, Michigan surveyed the English literature and found no articles on the relationship of IC and a history of abuse.

Urologists at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital are studying whether a neo-bladder construct grown from a patient’s own cells can improve bladder function for adult spinal cord injury patients.Jefferson is only one of six sites in the U.S. enrolling participants in this clinical trial for the lab-grown neo-bladder construct that will involve a total of 10 patients.”It’s never been done in adults before,” said primary investigator Patrick Shenot, M.D.

Today the American Association of Kidney Patients (AAKP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new patient education program. The AAKP HealthLine is a FREE, one-hour conference call designed to educate kidney patients on a variety of topics affecting them and their families. Conference calls feature kidney healthcare experts from across the country and provide patients with the convenience of gaining knowledge from the comfort of their home or office.

The 1st European Multidisciplinary Meeting on Urological Cancers (EMUC) ‘Embracing Excellence in Prostate and Kidney Cancer’ is scheduled to take place in Barcelona, Spain, November 2 to 4.This is the first time that major European organisations involved in the management of urological malignant disorders have joined forces and set up a meeting to present and discuss the latest updates and innovations in this rapidly evolving field.

The National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP), an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), has created an educational brochure tailored specifically for African Americans at risk for kidney disease. The brochure - “Kidney Disease: What African Americans Need to Know: — explains the connection between diabetes, high blood pressure, and kidney disease, and encourages those at risk to talk to their health care providers about getting tested.

A painful and debilitating condition that affects patients with kidney failure may be more common than previously believed and appears to be strongly associated with prior exposure to certain contrast agents used in imaging studies. In addition, individuals with this syndrome — called nephrogenic systemic fibrosis (NSF) — appear to have a significantly increased risk of dying.

Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth (NYSE:WYE), announced that it has received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Evaluation Agency (EMEA) for the approval of TORISEL? (temsirolimus) as a first-line therapy for patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma (RCC) who have at least three of six prognostic risk factors.

UroToday.com- Antiproliferative factor (APF) is a sialoglycopeptide elevated in the urine of patients with interstitial cystitis. APF is detectable in the urine of 95% of IC patients as compared to approximately 9% of controls and is also a low molecular weight glycosylated peptide related to the membrane receptor frizzled 8.

UroToday.com- While laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) and laparoscopic radical nephrectomy (LRN) have been shown to be effective management in patients with localized renal tumor; there is limited data on the long term effect on postoperative renal function in these two patient groups.

UroToday.com- This article published in the British Journal of Urology International by Georges-Pascal and Gill detail the oncologic findings and short-term recovery from laparoscopic radical cystectomy for clinically organ confined bladder cancer. The authors evaluated 37 patients who underwent laparoscopic radical cystectomy from 1999 to 2005. There was equal distribution of patients receiving a neobladder and an ileal conduit.