Female Urology

“Sexual wellness is critical to overall health and happiness. That’s why you see more men and women turning to specialty health clinics for solutions to problems they consider more aesthetic versus medical,” said Mitchell Hollander, MD.

"The idea being that it's a very low targeted dose; it does not raise blood estrogen levels, but it can specifically treat a lot of genital and urinary symptoms that are associated with a low estrogen state," says Ashley G. Winter, MD.

"If you disrupt a good patient-physician relationship to the point where patients actually don't seek the care they need, that's obviously very problematic," says Raveen Syan, MD, FPMRS.

AUGS is currently seeking volunteers to serve on writing groups for several topics.

Using a case-based, interactive approach, this course is designed to offer practical clinical and surgical pearls for the management of women with complex pelvic floor disorders and complications.

“Concerningly, when we look at our community population, more than a third just didn't know where to go,” says Raveen Syan, MD, FPMRS.

Urogynecologists focus on female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery, handling issues related to the pelvic floor and bladder.

“These findings demonstrate that electrofulguration provides a durable clinical cure that enables many postmenopausal women to remain UTI-free with minimal to no continued need for antibiotic therapy," says Philippe E. Zimmern, MD.

"We really have to think beyond just the individual health impact to understand what's underlying these disparities," says Raveen Syan, MD, FPMRS.

Increased retrovesicourethral angle, decreased functional urethral length, and the presence of bladder funnel were pelvic floor parameters identified as potential predictors of stress urinary incontinence in the early postpartum period.

“Patients who are candidates for bariatric surgery should be advised that improvement in urinary incontinence may also be a significant benefit of their intervention,” the authors wrote.

"Although there may be some variety in prevalence and severity of disease, what's most striking is when we know a patient has that diagnosis, we have consistently found that minority women are less likely to receive treatments for overactive bladder," says Raveen Syan, MD, FPRMS.

To acknowledge the need for increased research funding directed towards women’s health, beyond maternity and reproductive care, AUGS has established the National Urogynecology Research Agenda.

Dr. Kate Meriwether, AUGS Publications Committee member, interviews Dr Colleen McDermott, the first author of the Clinical Consensus Statement “Postoperative Urinary Retention,” to provide an overview and highlight the findings of the document.

AUGS is seeking both interested mentors and mentees who are looking for a mutually rewarding mentorship experience.

“What we're thinking here is that surgeon sex is a surrogate for a whole series of behaviors driven by sociologic conditioning of how people interact with each other and how physicians practice medicine,” says Christopher J.D. Wallis, MD, PhD.

"As the number of women urologists continues to increase, the field of urology must pay attention to their needs and professional satisfaction as they will constitute an increasing proportion of the future urologic work force," writes Lourdes Guerrios Rivera, MD, MSc.

"Patients who have a female surgeon are about 25% less likely to die than if they had a male surgeon," says Christopher J.D. Wallis, MD, PhD.

"Just really try to have awareness; figure out, what do you really need right now? Once you realize what you need, have compassion, stop the judgment," says Diana Londoño, MD.

“Patients just need to be educated that you don't have to live this way,” says J. Welles Henderson, MD, FACOG.

The incidence of 12-month surgical repair failure was 19% among those who received vaginal estrogen, compared with 9% among those who received placebo.

The new drug application is supported by findings from the phase 3 CERTAIN-1 trial.

Anna L. Myers, APRN-CNP, WHNP-BC, FNP-BC, IF, and Jean Marino, ARPN-CNP, NCMP, IF, preview an upcoming University Hospitals-led symposium titled, “What’s your pelvic floor plan? 2nd Annual Female Sexual Health Symposium.”

Join Dr. Catherine Bradley, urogynecologist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, as she discusses common types of female urinary incontinence seen in practice.

"The fact that we are able to swab and look at these proteins means that we might be able to identify women at risk early on,” says Maria Florian-Rodriguez, MD.

A group of patients were shown to have an average of 6.3 cystitis episodes per year before administration of Lactobacillus, compared with 2.4 episodes after administration.

"41% of practicing urologists said that if Dobbs had happened when they were looking for their current position, they would have picked a different job," says Chloe E. Peters, MD.

PFD Week is an inclusive meeting that offers access to internationally recognized leaders in the field and the opportunity to network with the most respected professionals in Urogynecology.

"One of the notable things was the complications are frequent—which is something that was previously known about these surgeries—but they're minor," says Kayla Blickensderfer.

Projections were made under 3 different circumstances: the rate of women entering urology continues to follow logistic growth, there is no further growth of women into urology, and retirement rates among women mirror that of men in urology.