OBJECTIVES A prospective study to assess safety, efficacy, and medium-term durability of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) combined with mechanical morcellation for the treatment of bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) due to benign prostate enlargement (BPE). METHODS Between January 2000 and July 2003, 330 consecutive patients underwent HoLEP at our institution. All patients were...

In a previous publication we reported on the binary system 12 Boötis and its evolutionary state. In particular the 12 Boo primary component is in a rapid phase of evolution, hence accurate measurement of its physical parameters makes it an interesting test case for stellar evolution models. Here we report on a significantly improved determination of the physical orbit of the double-lined spectr...

PURPOSE To investigate the diagnostic value of urodynamic bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) in the selection of patients for transurethral surgery of the prostate. MATERIALS AND METHODS We systematically searched online PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane Library databases from January 1989 to June 2014. RESULTS A total of 19 articles met the eligibility criteria for this systematic review. The eli...

PURPOSE We aimed to externally validate the prediction model we developed for having bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) and requiring prostatic surgery using 2 independent data sets from tertiary referral centers, and also aimed to validate a mobile app for using this model through usability testing. METHODS Formulas and nomograms predicting whether a subject has BOO and needs prostatic surgery...

AIM To explore the interaction between bladder compliance (BC) and bladder outflow obstruction (BOO) in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) using cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. METHODS A total of 181 men with BPH were recruited, and 100 of them were followed for one year. Cystometry was performed in a standing or a sitting position with 30 mL/min infusion. BC was manually c...

The release of the Hipparcos catalogue (Perryman et al. 1997) provides an opportunity to check results from asteroseismology. This has already been done for the double-mode δ Scuti star SX Phe: Høg & Petersen (1997) found excellent agreement with the parallax derived from model calculations by Petersen & Christensen-Dalsgaard (1996). Here we show that Hipparcos parallaxes for two other stars ar...

PURPOSE To investigate the role of urodynamic study (UDS) in female patients with overactive bladder (OAB) analyzing the relationship between OAB symptoms and female voiding dysfunction (FVD). MATERIALS AND METHODS We analyzed the clinical and urodynamic data of 163 women with OAB symptoms. OAB symptoms were categorized as dry and wet. FVD was described as detrusor underactivity (DUA), which ...

The beam orientation optimization (BOO) problem in intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) treatment planning is a nonlinear problem, and existing methods to obtain solutions to the BOO problem are time consuming due to the complex nature of the objective function and size of the solution space. These issues become even more difficult in total marrow irradiation (TMI), where many more beam...

All of the solar system gas giants produce electron cyclotron masers, driven by the solar wind impinging on their magnetospheres. Extrapolating to the planet orbiting τ Boo, various authors have predicted that it may be within the detection limits of the 4-meter wavelength (74 MHz) system on the Very Large Array. This paper reports three epochs of observations of τ Boo. In no epoch do we detect...