Sentences with phrase «of urologist»

Key responsibilities of an Urologist are diagnosing urologic problems, creating treatment plans, performing surgery, assessing patient condition, and collaborating with other healthcare professionals.

And those verdicts were compelling: nearly $ 30 million in a birth injury lawsuit, another $ 13 million in a claim involving brain injuries in a newborn, and close to $ 3 million for the victim of a urologist's delay - of - diagnosis of prostate cancer.

They were the first to raise what Casey calls «the 2.8 - inch issue,» referring to the findings of a urologist DeGuerin called in as an expert witness.

This study provides the largest observational analysis of urologist adherence to AUA guidelines on the management of BPH / LUTS, which is not based entirely on administrative data.

Today, an increasing number of urologists are adopting this ancient modality.

Executive Sales Representative, Dianon • PA Championed the sales role and managed a $ 6.5 M territory, consisting of Urologists, Dermatologists, Gastroenterologists, OB / GYN's and Medical Oncologists.

Not exact matches

Dr. Fara Bellows, a urologist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, told SELF that kidney infections are «one of the most common urologic conditions that we see in a general urology practice.»

I encouraged one of our resident psychiatrists, William G. Reiner (already interested in the subject because prior to his psychiatric training he had been a pediatric urologist and had witnessed the problem from the other side), to set about doing a systematic follow - up of these children — particularly the males transformed into females in infancy — so as to determine just how sexually integrated they became as adults.

After taking him to a urologist, we realized he had a medical condition that affected his ability to potty - train,» says a mother of five from Tennessee.

Despite the fact that potty training your child seems like a parenting rite of passage, pediatric urologist Steve Hodges, M.D., says there's actually no specific value in things like training in a certain number of days, or to treating it like a task to be checked off your parenting to - do list.

In infants, swelling and redness of penis may be noticed especially if the opening of the foreskin of penis is narrow, try to retract it and see if it is difficult to see the glans this means it's very narrow and you should see a urologist who may do circumcision or widening of foreskin opening.

We wouldn't dream of having men see anyone but a fully trained urologist for their BPH, cancer screening and sexual health.

This is a guest post from Steve J. Hodges, M.D., pediatric urologist at Wake Forest University and co-author, with Suzanne Schlosberg, of It's No Accident and the kids» book Bedwetting and Accidents Aren't Your Fault.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, and also Consultant Urologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Urology at the Royal Free Hospital in North London.

Dr. Elliot Fagelman of Stony Point is the newest urologist to join Advanced Urology Centers of New York's (AUCNY) Rockland County office in West Nyack, NY.

Led by Stella K. Kang, a radiologist with the Department of Radiology at the New York School of Medicine, the study was designed to compare the effectiveness of a treatment algorithm for small renal tumors incorporating the nephrometry score, a renal tumor anatomy scoring system developed by urologists, with the current standard of uniformly recommended partial nephrectomy in patients with mild - to - moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD).

«Physicians should still screen for melanoma risk, but they do not need to add the use of Viagra and similar drugs to the list of screening criteria specifically,» says urologist Stacy Loeb, MD, MSc, an assistant professor at NYU Langone.

«Urologists tend to prefer to forgo adjuvant radiation therapy, because they fear the side effects, and radiation oncologists tend to prefer offering adjuvant radiation therapy because they fear the risk of metastasis [cancer spreading to other sites in the body],» Showalter said.

Daniel Lin, M.D., a urologist at the University of Washington and an associate member of the Fred Hutch Public Health Sciences Division, said the nomogram could be a valuable tool for clinicians and patients.

The researchers, who also included University of Washington urologist John Gore, M.D., and biostatistician Lurdes Inoue, Ph.D., then overlaid screening and biopsy patterns on the model to determine when the men would have been diagnosed with and without screening, and which would have died of other causes.

He's at higher - than - average risk of developing prostate cancer, so he should probably check with a urologist on a regular basis.

«The PSA test is based on the fact that men with higher levels of the PSA protein are more likely to have prostate cancer,» said William Catalona, MD, principal investigator on the Prostate Health Index clinical study and urologist at Northwestern Medicine and director of the Clinical Prostate Cancer Program at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, where they began using the phi test on patients in February.

So, on top of performing 250 surgeries a year, directing the work of five research teams, administering the institute and fund - raising for it, on top of a demanding speaking schedule and active service on many medical boards, on top of preserving Sundays as family days often spent sailing with his wife, Carol, a urologist at UCLA, their son, Keith Quinten, 13, and daughter, Teal, 16, Black has become a biotech entrepreneur.

Loyola's program will address these issues in six weekly visits led by a team of obstetricians and gynecologists, urologists, psychologists, nurses, social workers, dietitians and yoga instructors.

Searching for a way to help people regain control over their unreliable bladders, Anthony Atala, a urologist at Children's Hospital Boston, injected stem cells from the limb muscles of rats into their deliberately damaged urinary sphincters, which control flow.

«The current array of medicines we use to treat hemorrhagic cystitis all have shortcomings, so there is a definite need for novel therapeutic options,» says Dr. Hsieh, a Children's National Health System urologist.

I recommend for further reading an article by Columbia University urologist Harry Fisch, entitled «Older Men Are Having Children, but the Reality of a Male Biological Clock Makes This Trend Worrisome,» in the January issue of the journal Geriatrics.

In cases which are likely to result in surgery, it is important that urologists understand the natural history of renal tumors.

In October Stanford University urologist Thomas A. Stamey made headlines when he declared that the test is not a reliable predictor of cancer.

After a quick trial, a local court in Beijing convicted urologist Xiao Chuang - Guo on 10 October of assaulting two well - known advocates of academic integrity in China.

«The creation of bladder cancer organoids is an important advance in the field,» said study co-author James M. McKiernan, MD, the John K. Lattimer Professor of Urology and chair of urology at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and urologist - in - chief at NewYork - Presbyterian / Columbia.

Edward Kim, MD, urologist at the University of Tennessee Medical Center and Professor at the University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine in Knoxville, and his colleagues compared such a drug, called Enclomiphene citrate, with testosterone replacement therapy (Androgel) in overweight men with low testosterone, or hypogonadism.

«The reason the testes are not in the body is that heat is not good for testicular function,» says urologist Yefim Sheynkin, director of the Male Infertility and Microsurgery Center at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

According to their analyses of insurance claims databases, about 70 percent of men who have tried testosterone therapy did so after seeing a primary care physician, not a urologist or endocrinologist.

Co-author Dr. Joseph Renzulli, associate professor of surgery and a urologist at the Minimally Invasive Urology Institute at Miriam Hospital, added, «The concept of «shared decision making» for prostate cancer screening is not occurring in the community.»

«That only about a third of patients reported having a discussion of advantages and disadvantages is an alarming statistic,» said study lead author Dr. George Turini III, clinical instructor in medical science at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a urologist with the Southcoast Physician Group.

«We were really excited and surprised that stem cells can create this much improvement,» says Tulane urologist Asim Abdel - Mageed, a co-author of the study.

«This is an excellent study, with lots of clinical implications,» says Trinity Bivalacqua, a urologist at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in Baltimore, Maryland.

«Working with my patients with infertility, I have seen how devastating this diagnosis can be,» says co-author and reproductive urologist James Hotaling, MD, also an assistant professor of surgery at U of U Health.

As a pediatric urologist, Atala learned that the «state - of - the - art» operation available to kids like Luke involved fashioning a new bladder from a section of existing intestine.

Nix and Rais - Bahrami are two of a select few urologists in the United States trained to utilize this technology; together they have five years» experience using this approach.

After excluding men with a diagnosis of prostate cancer and other conditions of the prostate, the study sample included 1,164 visits (representing 27 million eligible visits) in 2010 and 2012, of which 64 visits (representing 800,000 visits) were provided by urologists and 1,100 visits (representing 26.2 million visits) were by primary care physicians.

In the past ten years, with the bladder extrophy / epispadias self - help group and leading pediatric urologists and pediatric surgeons in Germany - including from the Barmherzigen Brüder Pediatric Hospital in Regensburg as well as the universities of Mainz and Ulm - researchers at the University of Bonn hospital have been able to gather the largest group of patients in the world.

Dr. Robert J. Prentiss, a highly respected local urologist, is named the school's first associate clinical professor and serves as acting chief of the Department of Urology.

Because of their unique expertise in treating these types of tumors, our urologists can help identify and, when possible, avoid potential side effects — such as infertility, sexual dysfunction or incontinence — that may result from cancer treatment.

In addition, our pediatric urologists provide fetal diagnosis, consultation and management of prenatal care as part of U-M's comprehensive Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment Center.

From routine, simple procedures to rare and complex conditions, U-M pediatric urologists offer innovative, evidence - based treatment and a unique level of support and resources for children and families who travel from all over the U.S. for care at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital.

U-M pediatric urologists offer expertise in minimally invasive procedures for a range of urologic conditions.

As a result, European guidelines for the management of bladder cancer have recommended that urologists use it to ensure that their patients have optimal care.

Wake Forest Baptist Urologist Named a Physician of the Year WINSTON - SALEM, N.C. - Feb. 27, 2013 - Gopal Badlani, M.D., professor and vice chair for clinical affairs in the Department of Urology at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, is one of three physicians nationwide selected to re