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The studies explored the use of opioids following surgery as well as the risk of incisional hernia.

“The primary thing we found was that the average kidney–and we study the ipsilateral kidney, or the kidney that was operated on–fell at the natural aging process,” says Carlos Muñoz-Lopez.

In total, 77.8% of Black respondents, 72.7% of Asian respondents, 57.1% of Latino respondents, and 46.5% of White respondents indicated that the racial and ethnic diversity of residents at a program influenced their decision to preference signal or sub-internship with that program.

Smaller incision may lead to reduced postoperative pain for some patients.

“Our findings show that race-modified equations account for some but not all of the disparity in partial nephrectomy use. We need to keep searching for answers to ensure people of all races receive appropriate care," said Christopher Weight, MD.

“This study truly changes the paradigm of infections and suggests we need to work smarter, not harder, to prevent infections,” said urologist Scott Lundy, MD, PhD.

UroMonitor was developed in response to conventional urodynamics, which have several limitations.

Researchers still urge caution when considering testosterone therapy.

“It’s very important to really talk to the patients and understand any toxicities because the side effects are well managed if they’re caught early,” says Shilpa Gupta, MD.

Shilpa Gupta, MD, discusses long-term outcomes of the EV-103 trial, which explored the first-line combination of enfortumab vedotin and pembrolizumab in cisplatin-ineligible patients with locally advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma.

"I think there's a lot of interest now on intraoperative navigation," says Jihad Kaouk, MD.

Bradley Gill, MD, MS, recaps several presentations on benign prostatic hyperplasia from the 2023 American Urological Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois.

"What we found is that AI+ score using continuous variables had the highest predictive ability of all oncologic outcomes that were measured," says Nour Abdallah, MD.

"We found that on average, [a] patient went into surgery with a GFR of about 55, and came out with a GFR of about 44," says Steven Campbell, MD, PhD.

"This is something [that is] a lot easier for the patient, it's a lot less costly to the health care system to stay out of the operating room, and it's a lot quicker for me," says Howard B. Goldman, MD.

Study finds a 35% increase in vasectomy consultation requests.

The findings suggest creatinine-based eGFR equations alone may be inaccurate, and cystatin C or combined eGFR equations may be a more accurate assessment of kidney function in this population.

Cleveland Clinic surgeons describe a new technique for harvesting a rectal mucosa graft.

"These studies, taken together, offer important insight into the direction we should be heading in prostate cancer diagnosis: toward a targeted-only TP biopsy," write Tarik Benidir, MD, and Zeyad Schwen, MD.

"In the last couple of years, there have been at least 2 sets of great tissue simulators that have come out, and I think they're really providing an opportunity for learning HoLEP," says Smita De, MD, PhD.

“People and patients are so much more informed now, and they're so engaged in their health. It's fantastic,” says Raevti Bole, MD.

“That's not something we're going to know potentially for many years, but I do think all of us are wondering, are we going to see much more interest in vasectomy reversals down the line?” says Sarah Vij, MD.

“We found a significant increase in men under 30 getting vasectomies,” says Raevti Bole, MD.

“There's a lot of talk about Roe v. Wade affecting the reproductive health of women. This implies that it's also affecting reproductive health decisions for men,” says Sarah Vij, MD.

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common human infections. But the urine culture, the cornerstone for laboratory diagnosis of UTI, is imperfect.

In an episode of Cleveland Clinic’s Cancer Advances podcast, Christopher Weight, MD, center director of Urologic Oncology at Cleveland Clinic, discusses robot-assisted retroperitoneal lymph node dissection.

"The model that we developed was able to behave as accurately as clinical models that were previously validated," says Nour Abdallah, MD.

“The need for lifesaving organs continues to grow. We continue to increase patients’ options regarding the type of donors. We want them to get this life-changing procedure as soon as possible,” said Alvin Wee, MD.

Cleveland Clinic highlights its use of irreversible electroporation, also known as Nanoknife, in select patients with prostate cancer.