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HSC Medicine, Dentistry and Healthcare Sciences Current Awareness Bulletins: Urology and Nephrology

Urology and Nephrology current awareness bulletin

Frequency: Bi-monthly

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January 2025

Advanced optical imaging techniques for bladder cancer detection and diagnosis: a systematic review

Artificial intelligence for detection of prostate cancer in biopsies during active surveillance

Bridging the knowledge gap: past, present and future of antibiotic use for ureteral stents

British Association of Urological Surgeons (BAUS) consensus document for the management of benign female urethral lesions

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing prior to radical cystectomy: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Classification systems for chronic pelvic pain in males: a systematic review

A collaborative review of the microsatellite instability/deficient mismatch repair phenotype in patients with upper tract urothelial carcinoma

Complications of vasectomy: results from a prospective audit of 105 393 procedures

Conservative interventions for female exercise-induced urinary incontinence: a systematic review

Dialysis for chronic kidney failure: a review

European Association of Urology/European Society for Paediatric Urology guidelines on paediatric urology: summary of the 2024 updates

Fenoldopam for preventing and treating acute kidney injury (new Cochrane intervention review)

Haematuria in children (BMJ practice pointer)

Haemodiafiltration versus haemodialysis for kidney failure: an individual patient data meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

Improving patient information and enhanced consent in urology: the impact of simulation and multimedia tools

Infectious diseases of the male and female urogenital tract: a review of the histology of selected entities

The microbiota in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome: a systematic review

Mitochondrial dysfunction and NLRP3 inflammasome: key players in kidney stone formation

Serum and urine nucleic acid screening tests for BK polyomavirus‐associated nephropathy in kidney and kidney‐pancreas transplant recipients (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

A systematic review on artificial intelligence evaluating PSMA PET scan for intraprostatic cancer

Systematic review on the cost effectiveness of prostate cancer screening in Europe

Trimodal therapy vs radical cystectomy in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Variant genital gender-affirming surgery: a systematic review

Whole-body MRI for staging prostate cancer: a narrative review

Sources

BJU International (Nov-Jan); BMJ, The (Nov); Cochrane Library (Nov-Dec); Diagnostic Histopathology (Oct); European Urology (Nov); JAMA (Nov); Lancet, The (Nov)

November 2024

Automated peritoneal dialysis versus continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis for people with kidney failure (updated Cochrane review)

Bladder outlet obstruction relief and symptom improvement following medical and surgical therapies for lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia: a systematic review

Conservative management in high-grade renal trauma: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Erythropoiesis‐stimulating agents for preventing acute kidney injury (new Cochrane review)

First-line immunotherapy of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: an updated network meta-analysis including triplet therapy

Genetics of chronic kidney disease

Hemodialysis vascular access: a historical perspective on access promotion, barriers, and lessons for the future

Immunotherapy for advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma: an abridged Cochrane review

Interventions for preventing the progression of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (updated Cochrane review)

Litigation claims in urology in the UK National Health Service

Metabolic evaluation and recurrence prevention for urinary stone patients: an EAU guidelines update

Nephrologists' perspectives and experiences with hospice among older adults with end-stage kidney disease

Palliative care acceptability for older adults with advanced CKD: a qualitative study of patients and nephrologists

Precision dialysis: leveraging big data and artificial intelligence

Prevalence of non-neurogenic male lower urinary tract symptoms after kidney transplantation

Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) interobserver variability

Risk stratification of patients with recurrence after primary treatment for prostate cancer: a systematic review

Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors for adults with chronic kidney disease: a clinical practice guideline

Summary paper on underactive bladder from the European Association of Urology guidelines on non-neurogenic male lower urinary tract symptoms

Surveillance of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer with blue-light cystoscopy: a meta-analysis

Urethral slings in a post-mesh world

The utility of Martius fat pad in the repair of urogenital fistulae: review of current evidence

Vibegron for treating symptoms of overactive bladder syndrome (new NICE technology appraisal guidance TA999)

Sources

BJU International (Sep-Oct); BMJ, The (Oct); Cochrane Library (Sep-Oct); European Urology (Sep-Oct); Journal of the American Geriatrics Society (Jul); Kidney Medicine (Sep-Oct); NEJM (Aug); NICE website (Sep-Oct)

September 2024

Antihypertensive treatment for kidney transplant recipients (updated Cochrane review)

British Association of Urological Surgeons Consensus statements on the management of ketamine uropathy

Current standards for training in robot-assisted surgery and endourology: a systematic review

Does pre-stenting influence outcomes of shockwave lithotripsy? A systematic review and meta-analysis

EAU-EANM-ESTRO-ESUR-ISUP-SIOG guidelines on prostate cancer—2024 update

European Association of Urology guidelines on urological infections: summary of the 2024 guidelines

Evolution of European prostate cancer screening protocols and summary of ongoing trials

Household water lead and hematologic toxic effects in chronic kidney disease

Hypertension and kidney function after living kidney donation

‘Igloo’ technique for robot-assisted radical prostatectomy – maximum nerve sparing for early recovery of continence and sexual function

Kidney transplant outcomes from deceased donors who received dialysis

Non-infectious adverse events of transperineal prostate biopsies performed under local anaesthesia

Perspectives on technology – prostate cancer: is local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy really better than transrectal biopsy?

Prostate radiotherapy in low-volume metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer: a network meta-analysis

Renal cell carcinoma (Lancet seminar review)

SGLT2 inhibitor use in chronic kidney disease: supporting cardiovascular, kidney, and metabolic health

Short-term and long-term survival in patients with prevalent haemodialysis—an integrated prognostic model: external validation

Systematic review and network meta-analysis of re-intervention rates of new surgical interventions for benign prostatic hyperplasia

Telemedicine in advanced kidney disease and kidney transplant: a qualitative meta-analysis of studies of patient perspectives

Urethral cancer: a comprehensive review endorsed by the Global Society of Rare Genitourinary Tumours

Sources

BJU International (Jul-Aug); BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care (Jun); Cochrane Library (Jul); European Urology (Jul-Aug); JAMA (Jul); JAMA Internal Medicine (Jul); Kidney Medicine (Jul-Aug); Lancet, The (Aug)

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