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Hospitals, clinics. Urology (from Greek οὖρον ouron "urine" and -λογία -logia "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary system and the reproductive organs. Organs under the domain of urology include the kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters ...
The International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) is an eight-question written screening tool used to screen for, rapidly diagnose, track the symptoms of, and suggest management of the lower urinary tract symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). It contains seven questions related to symptoms related to BPH and one question related to the ...
Urinary tract obstruction is a urologic disease consisting of a decrease in the free passage of urine through one or both ureters and/or the urethra. It is a cause of urinary retention. Complete obstruction of the urinary tract requires prompt treatment for renal preservation. [32]
Lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) refer to a group of clinical symptoms involving the bladder, urinary sphincter, urethra and, in men, the prostate.The term is more commonly applied to men – over 40% of older men are affected – but lower urinary tract symptoms also affect women.
Interstitial cystitis ( IC ), a type of bladder pain syndrome ( BPS ), is chronic pain in the bladder and pelvic floor of unknown cause. [1] It is the urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome of women. [2] Symptoms include feeling the need to urinate right away, needing to urinate often, and pain with sex. [1]
Vattikuti Urology Institute. The Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI) at the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, is a clinical and research center for urological care. [2] It is known for being the first institute to implement robotic surgery as a type of treatment for patients with prostate cancer. [2] [3] [4] To date, the institute has ...
Cleveland Clinic. / 41.502595; -81.621066. Cleveland Clinic is an American nonprofit academic medical center based in Cleveland, Ohio. [2] Owned and operated by the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, an Ohio nonprofit corporation, Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by a group of faculty and alumni from the Case Western Reserve University School of ...
The Urology Foundation ( TUF) is a charity that works across the UK and Ireland with the aim of improving the knowledge and skills of surgeons who operate on diseases of the male and female urinary-tract system and the male reproductive organs and funds research to improve outcomes of all urological conditions and urological cancers.