Between March 2012 and September 2014, 125 patients with clinically localized prostate cancer underwent LRP performed by the same experienced surgeon (≥300 LRP cases at study initiation) at Keio ...

Today is the day the urinary catheter is removed. This is one of the goals of hospital life. It took a week to get here. I ...

Prostate cancer treatments are very effective. The five-year survival rate for an early-stage cancer is now over 99 percent. Yet these treatments leave behind side effects. Urinary incontinence, which ...

Continuous bladder irrigation (CBI) refers to a flushing of the bladder with sterile fluid. It can help prevent clots and blood retention after prostate or bladder surgery. It is not usually painful ...

"I have to have a urinary catheter inserted..."It is not something you experience very often, is it?When I was a resident, I often had to insert urinary catheters for patients brought to the emergency ...

A prostatectomy is surgery to partially or completely remove the prostate gland to treat conditions such as prostate cancer or benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A radical prostatectomy is the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a new catheter designed to treat urinary tract symptoms of an enlarged prostate, also known as benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH). Designed and marketed ...