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Even if female urinary incontinence is becoming more and more frequent with years passing, does the arrival of menopause (positively or negatively) influence this disease?
MedNews (Urology) - Mon, 8 September 2008
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Which is the frequency of urinary tract infections (UTIs) in children presenting fever? In order to quantify it, a meta-analysis on 18 trials involving 22,919 children affected by symptomatic UTIs was performed.
MedNews (Urology) - Tue, 26 August 2008
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Exposure to persistent organic pollutants is linked to urologic conditions in boys.
Medscape (Urology) - Thu, 22 May 2008
http://www.medscape.com
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Some patients affected by benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) have nicturia as a major limitation for their quality of life.
MedNews (Urology) - Wed, 23 April 2008
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Can stress incontinence be caused by hysterectomy? Up to now the results of the trials have been not determining, so in Sweden a large database has been used to compare two cohorts: 165,200 women undergoing hysterectomy for benign indications from 1973 to 2003 and 479,500 women stratified by age, not undergoing surgery.
MedNews (Urology) - Thu, 10 April 2008
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Family physicians often encounter patients with urinary retention: the incidence dramatically increases with age so that a man in his 70s has a 10 percent chance and a man in his 80s has a more than 30 percent chance of having an episode of acute urinary retention.
Medscape (Urology) - Wed, 5 March 2008
http://www.medscape.com
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When we are in front of patients with “chronic” perineal pelvic pain, we often speak of chronic prostatitis, even if in these subjects generally there is no shown bacterial infection and the prostatic secretion and urine do not contain white blood cells. In these cases is it correct to speak of chronic inflammation?
MedNews (Urology) - Thu, 28 February 2008
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Researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have shown that hysterectomy - a common operation involving the removal of the uterus - greatly increases the risk of urinary incontinence.
Karolinska Institutet (Urology) - Tue, 13 November 2007
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Hysterectomy for benign indications more than doubles the risk of requiring subsequent stress-urinary-incontinence surgery.
The Lancet (Urology) - Tue, 30 October 2007
http://www.thelancet.com
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Objective of this study is to identify risk factors for recurrent UTI in a pediatric primary care cohort, to determine the association between antimicrobial prophylaxis and recurrent UTI, and to identify the risk factors for resistance among recurrent UTIs.
Journal of the American Medical Association (Urology) - Thu, 12 July 2007
http://jama.ama-assn.org/