Urology

B.C. study finds only one-third of prescribing for female outpatients with uncomplicated cystitis was fully appropriate in terms of drug, dose and duration of therapy.

Up to 50% to 60% of women will have a urinary tract infection in their lifetime, and up to 25% to 30% of these women will have a recurrent UTI.

Provides guidance on evaluation, counselling, nonsurgical and surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence, as well as management of surgery complications.

Could this treatment really relegate chemo to the background?

Study explores the frequency of UTIs in relation to behavioural risk factors.

This lack of knowledge often results in the burden of male fertility falling on women, who are subject to invasive assisted reproduction procedures.

All the following statements about use of desmopressin for monosymptomatic enuresis (bedwetting without any daytime lower urinary tract symptoms) in children are true, EXCEPT for . . .

​​​​​​​Educate and reassure patients and families that no treatment is necessary for primary monosymptomatic enuresis: nearly all children will outgrow bedwetting with time.