Urology Times staff

"Of the patients who underwent a prophylactic bladder neck incision... none of those patients developed a bladder neck contracture at 14 months of median follow-up," says Nicholas S. Dean, MD.

“The real immediate use case is that this biomarker can be an adjunct, or it can be something to assist in making the shared decision making with patients [with prostate cancer],” says Daniel E. Spratt, MD.

“Burnout is the end stage of unmanaged stress in the workplace,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

"We've been focused on improving the quality of care around ureteroscopy for kidney stones, especially around a post operative emergency department visits," says Khurshid R. Ghani, MD.

"It's been pretty consistent that our second-year urology residents are really suffering," says Amanda C. North, MD.

"It could identify about 2/3 of men that normally we'd be recommending hormone therapy would appear to have no benefit from hormone therapy," says Daniel E. Spratt, MD.

"As a result of this work, we came to the conclusion that maybe if you are going to stent someone, you should try and keep the stent time at a minimum of 4 or 5 days," says Khurshid R. Ghani, MD.

“I am lucky to work for a health care system that believes in serving the patients of the Bronx,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

"We're currently putting together... a toolkit that we can give to urologists and other providers in the community to help counsel their patients on some of the different avenues that they can go down to find more affordable medications," says Brian Cortese.

“Men with and without retention all do very well from the voiding standpoint with relatively low rates of complications,” says Claire S. Burton, MD.

“Learning how to disengage from stuff that can be pretty toxic and engaged in the stuff that's most meaningful, I think makes our lives better,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

"Right now, the longest-term studies are the WATER trials, which have published 5-year outcomes. But we know that a subset of men will require retreatment over time," says Claire S. Burton, MD.

“I couldn't change the fact that it was going to be a few months until I had help. But I could change my own response to the situation,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“One of the things we do is communicate with our teams and help them with some guidance about how to make decisions about which patients can potentially be treated with alternative approaches,” says Hamid Emamekhoo, MD.

"What we found is that those with acute urinary retention took longer to ultimately pass their trial without a catheter, meaning that they were voiding without the use of any catheterization," says Claire S. Burton, MD.

"Prescription alkali therapy is very costly; it has a lot of side effects, and the compliance is very low," says Brett Johnson, MD.

“Because this was the largest trial ever of testosterone replacement therapy, although the primary point of the trial was cardiovascular safety, we embedded within the trial several efficacy and other sub studies,” says A. Michael Lincoff, MD.

“There are real, tangible consequences when we prescribe medications to our patients, not just the [adverse] effects studied in clinical trials,” says Brian Cortese.

“I think one of the hottest topics for advocacy right now relates to reimbursement for telemedicine,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

“We are now doing more testing on the RNA side,” says Brittany M. Szymaniak, PhD, CGC.

“For this population of patients…testosterone replacement therapy does appear to be safe from a cardiovascular standpoint,” says A. Michael Lincoff, MD.

"The Inflation Reduction Act could impact the livelihoods of a lot of patients by reducing their annual out-of-pocket costs," says Brian Cortese.

"In 2021, we were finally able to demonstrate a statistically significant difference in burnout between men and women in urology with women having much higher burnout rates," says Amanda C. North, MD.

"My predominant role as a genetic counselor is really to serve our patient population and help support our providers," says Brittany M. Szymaniak, PhD, CGC.

"Within the Inflation Reduction Act, there is a provision that will cap the out-of-pocket contribution for Medicare beneficiaries, dropping to $3250 in 2024, as well as $2,000 in 2025," says Brian Cortese.

"I can't speak for the FDA, but I would hope and anticipate that the results of this trial may lead to a modification of the label and the warning," says A. Michael Lincoff, MD.

"If you were to look at this paper and others that are coming out like it, it appears that disposable cystoscopy is going to be the future for us," said David D. Thiel, MD.

“After I finished my fellowship, I came straight back to Montefiore. I was very drawn to taking care of the patients in the Bronx,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

Hamid Emamekhoo, MD, explains his approach to discussing the ongoing cancer drug shortage with his patients with genitourinary cancers.

"We make the argument in our discussion of this paper that any discussion further on cost needs to include encounters," says David D. Thiel, MD.