Treatments After Prostate Surgery
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- Treatments After Prostate Surgery
- Vasectomy Reversal
- Former doctor had love for art
- Cancer expert to head HSU urology division
- Robot Helps Fix Vesicovaginal Fistulas
Treatments After Prostate Surgery
Science Daily (press release)
Men who show increasing Prostate-Specific-Antigen (PSA) after surgery but without signs of metastases are offered a variety of options for treatment including radiation prostatectomy observation or androgen deprivation therapy (ADT). Unfortunately virtually all patients treated with ADT progress to metastatic disease. Researchers investigated the addition of thalidomide to intermittent ADT in a double-blind placebo-controlled multicenter study. Intermittent ADT is increasingly being used in patients with biochemical recurrence since it has some advantages over continuous ADT.
Vasectomy Reversal
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Nagler MD Chairman of the Sol and Margaret Berger Department of Urology at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City and Professor of Urology Albert Einstein College of Medicine will be performing the vasectomy reversal procedure. Nagler is a nationally renowned expert in vasectomy reversal and male infertility with vast experience performing vasectomy reversal and also in the surgical correction of.
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Former doctor had love for art
SunHerald.com (subscription) USA
“It was a coincidental thing” he said. “She was the head of the Red Cross in Richmond and he just happened to be stationed there. ”Wessler practiced urology in Gulfport for 35 years and was retired as emeritus professor of clinical urology at Tulane University Medical School. He joined the staff of Memorial Hospital at Gulfport in August 1955 and retired in December 1985. n his application to Memorial still in the hospital’s records the telephone numbers are all four digits. When the Wesslers moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the late 1940s Thatcher was among the first people they met. A close friend Thatcher is godfather to the three Wessler children.
Cancer expert to head HSU urology division
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The gift to HSU from Knight and his wife Penny was used tocreate the HSU Knight Cancer Institute and help recruit andretain outstanding cancer health care professionals. © 2009 Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Robot Helps Fix Vesicovaginal Fistulas
Renal and Urology News NY
These patients would normally undergo abdominal surgery requiring a large incision. Instead centimeter-sized instruments and a small camera were inserted through five small incisions in the abdomen. The mean hospital stay for the seven patients was three days the researchers reported in the Journal of Urology (2008;180:981-985). Catheters were removed from all patients 14 days postoperatively. All had a successful outcome and were continent after catheter removal. The patients were prescribed antibiotics for five days and anticholinergic medications for six to eight weeks along with bladder training. The average size of the fistulas was 3 cm.
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