A 85-year-old woman consulted our clinic due to asymptomatic macrohematuria on January 6, 1987. In the cystoscopic examination, solitary and pedunculated bladder tumor was revealed. This tumor was located on the retrotrigonal region near the right ureteral orifice. On January 20, transurethral resection of bladder tumor was planned but the base of the tumor was stony hard, so complete resection...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES to evaluate the frequency of reoperation caused by massive hematuria in the postoperation of open prostatectomy in benign prostatic hyperplasia (BHP) at our hospital. At the same time, we also want to evaluate the effectiveness and possible secondary effects of using transurethral approach to solve this surgical complications. MATERIAL AND METHODS we analyzed retro...

Our objective in this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of transurethral cord blood stem cell injection for treatment of stress urinary incontinence in women. Between July 2005 and July 2006, 39 women underwent transurethral umbilical cord blood stem cell injection performed by one operator at a single hospital. All patients had stress urinary incontinence. The patients were evaluat...

PURPOSE Our goal was to determine the appropriateness, safety and cost-effectiveness of catheter removal and hospital discharge 1 day after transurethral prostatectomy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study of 200 patients who underwent transurethral prostatectomy during a 23-month period was done. On the morning of postoperative day 1 catheters were removed from 156 patients (78%) who ha...

BACKGROUND Although bladder drainage is widely used for general surgical patients undergoing laparotomy, there is little consensus on whether suprapubic or transurethral catheterization is better. METHOD A systematic database search was undertaken to find all studies of suprapubic catheterization. Randomized controlled trials were identified for inclusion. Endpoints for analysis were bacteriu...

AIM To analyze long-term effects of short and shallow incision of the prostate, a new modification of transurethral incision of the prostate (TUIP), as a method of resolving bladder outlet obstruction and preserving anterograde ejaculation and potency. METHOD Fifty patients with symptoms of bladder outlet obstruction caused by a small benign prostate tumor of less than 30 g estimated weight w...

BACKGROUND Bladder neck transection is one of the most difficult procedures for robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP), particularly in patients who have undergone previous transurethral resection of the prostate (TUR-P), and in those with large median lobes or prostate cancer protruding into the bladder neck. To ensure negative surgical margins and safely preserve the uretera...

The aim of the study was to assess the incidence and etiology of repeated bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) after kidney transplantation and to analyze the results of transurethral incision of the prostate/transurethral resection of the prostate (TUIP/TURP) in the early period after kidney transplantation. The study included 24 male patients having undergone renal transplantation and early trans...

PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of the urologist's experience on the surgical results and complications of transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). PATIENTS AND METHODS Sixty-seven patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate without the use of a video camera were randomly allocated into three groups according to the urologist's experience: a urologist having done 25 t...

The use of antibiotic prophylaxis to prevent urinary tract infection and bacteremia (sepsis) following endoscopic urologic procedures is a controversial topic. Evidence in the literature revealed that urological instrumentation is associated with increased incidence of urinary tract infection and bacteremia. The aim of this review is to evaluate the effectiveness of antibiotic prophylaxis in re...