Study finds tramadol effects vary among patients
September 8th 2021“Tramadol is a mixed-class medication and it has weak opioid agonist activity. Normally, we consider that a safer option compared to other opioids, but it's actually a pro drug, so it has to be metabolized to have an effect,” says Sarah F. Faris, MD.
2021 AUA Annual Meeting Preview: Prostate, Bladder, and Kidney Cancer
September 8th 2021Michael S. Cookson, MD, previews the 2021 AUA Annual Meeting, with a focus on prostate, bladder, and kidney cancer. His in-depth analysis covers the plenary sessions, late-breaking abstracts, and other abstracts of interest.
Researchers use the military health care system to investigate mental health in transgender youth
September 8th 2021“It was nice to use the military health system to look at the population, which tends to be very diverse…[It allowed] us to get pretty large numbers to make some better conclusions about what’s already been established in this population,” says David A. Klein, MD, MPH.
Emerging treatment options for the management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer
September 7th 2021“When a man initially presents with metastatic disease, or fails initial systemic therapy, our approach has to be different. We are more concerned that their disease is more aggressive,” says Leonard Gomella, MD.
Transperineal biopsy device PrecisionPoint shows promise
September 7th 2021“Through these 2 small punctures, we can manipulate the device with the methodology to sample the entire prostate, both anterior apical and the posterior regions, where we find the vast majority of our cancers,” says Matthew A. Allaway, MD.
Mental health care and gender dysphoria in transgender and gender-diverse youth
September 6th 2021“A lot of clinicians are seeing transgender and gender-diverse people in their practice, whether it’s urology, whether it’s primary care, whether it’s other subspecialties…[They should have an understanding] that transgender and gender-diverse people are at a higher risk of a multitude of mental health diagnoses,” says David A. Klein, MD, MPH.
Advantages of transperineal biopsies over transrectal biopsies
September 5th 2021“The transperineal [prostate biopsy] approach is safer because the needles are passed through the perineal skin…so, we can sterilize that skin and if we enter through that passageway, we mitigate, if not eliminate, the risk of infection and sepsis,” says Matthew J. Allaway, MD.
Assessing the disparities between mental health among transgender and cisgender youth
September 4th 2021“Transgender and gender-diverse people are at a higher risk of a multitude of mental health diagnoses, [which] really lends itself to a sensitive psycho-social history regardless of the specialty,” says David A. Klein, MD, MPH.
Investigators assess the satisfaction of telehealth visits in FPMRS patients
September 1st 2021“We found a majority of patients with televisits were satisfied, with many saying it was easy to schedule, easy to comfortably share sensitive information with their doctor, and with the most surprising [finding] being 80% saying they would choose it again over an in-person visit,” says Christina Shin, BA.
Dr. Seth advises individualized counseling for patients using Botox treatments and blood thinners
August 31st 2021“In terms of patients having Botox, we have to be individualized to some extent where if you feel someone's at very high risk of bleeding…then maybe you will stop the blood thinners,” says Jai Seth, MD.