Main description:

This unique book provides up-to-date information on the appropriateness of both medical and surgical treatment options for a broad spectrum of urological conditions based on the current best evidence. Written by an international team of authors that stand out through their specialty expertise and leadership in practicing evidence-based urology, this book provides practical recommendations for the care of individual patients. Each chapter addresses a series of focused clinical questions that are addressed in a systematic fashion, including a comprehensive literature search, a rating of the quality of evidence, and an assessment of ratio of benefit and harm of a given treatment option. Evidence-Based Urology is an invaluable source of evidence-based information distilled into guidance for clinical practice.

Contents:

List of contributors. Preface. Foreword. 1 Searching for evidence ( Jeanette Buckingham ). 2 Clinical trials in urology ( Charles D. Scales Jr and David F. Penson ). 3 Conduct and interpretation of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in urology ( Martha M. Faraday ). 4 Rating the quality of evidence and making recommendations ( Philipp Dahm and Holger J. Schunemann ). 5 Evidence-based guidelines in urology ( Susan L. Norris ). 6 Understanding concepts related to health economics in urology ( Yair Lotan ). 7 Antibiotic prophylaxis in urological surgery ( Philipp Dahm, Ngoc-Bich Le and Susan F. Fesperman ). 8 Venous thromboembolism: risks and prophylaxis in urological surgery ( Melissa R. Kaufman and Roger R. Dmochowski ). 9 Prophylaxis and treatment of urinary tract infections in adults ( S.L. Matheson, Philip Masson, Angela C. Webster and Jonathan C. Craig ). 10 Medical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia ( John M. Hollingsworth, Elizabeth Soll and John T. Wei ). 11 Surgical management of benign prostatic hyperplasia ( Rustom P. Manecksha and John M. Fitzpatrick ). 12 Treatment of chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome ( J. Curtis Nickel ). 13 Treatment of interstitial cystitis: does anything work? ( Ann Oldendorf and J. Quentin Clemens ). 14 Treatment of premature ejaculation ( Chris G. McMahon ). 15 Management of erectile dysfunction ( Mathew D. Sorensen and Hunter Wessells ). 16 Male infertility ( Ashok Agarwal, Fnu Deepinder and Edmund S. Sabanegh Jr ). 17 Genitourinary trauma ( Bryan B. Voelzke and Jack W. McAninch ). 18 Urethral stricture disease ( Bahaa S. Malaeb and Sean P. Elliott ). 19 Antimuscarinic treatments in overactive bladder ( Christopher R. Chapple, Dominic Muston and Zoe S. Kopp ). 20 Medical management of urinary incontinence in women ( Ryan Hutchinson, Roger R. Dmochowski and Harriette Scarpero ). 21 Surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence ( Alexander Gomelsky and Roger R. Dmochowski ). 22 Medical management of stone disease ( Timothy Y. Tseng and Glenn M. Preminger ). 23 Surgical management of renal stone disease ( Adam C. Mues, Bodo E. Knudsen and Benjamin K. Canales ). 24 Surgical management of ureteral stone disease ( Jay D. Raman and Margaret S. Pearle ). 25 Chemoprevention of prostate cancer ( Amanda Beth Reed, Kristin C. Reed and Dipen J. Parekh ). 26 Early detection and screening for prostate cancer ( Pim J. van Leeuwen, Monique J. Roobol and Fritz H. Schroder ). 27 Surgical management of clinically localized prostate cancer ( Daniel A. Barocas and Michael S. Cookson ). 28 Surgical treatment options for locally advanced prostate cancer ( Lawrence L. Yeung and Charles J. Rosser ). 29 Radiation therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer ( Michael Myers, Priya Mitra, Mitchell Anscher, Anthony Addesa and Michael Hagan ). 30 Metastatic prostate cancer ( Mike D. Shelley and Malcolm D. Mason ). 31 Treatment of superficial bladder cancer ( Alexander Karl and Badrinath R. Konety ). 32 Treatment of muscle-invasive bladder cancer ( James Thomasch and Sam S. Chang ). 33 Metastatic bladder cancer ( Mike D. Shelley and Malcolm D. Mason ). 34 Treatment of localized kidney cancer ( Frederic Pouliot, Jeffrey C. LaRochelle and Allan J. Pantuck ). 35 Treatment of metastatic kidney cancer ( Przemyslaw W. Twardowski and Robert A. Figlin ). 36 Seminoma ( Mark Shaw, Peter Chung and Padraig Warde ). 37 Nonseminomatous germ cell tumor ( Alana M. Murphy and James M. McKiernan ). 38 Pediatric urinary tract infections ( Regina D. Norris and John S. Wiener ). 39 Treatment of nocturnal enuresis ( Alexander Gomelsky ). 40 Treatment of Wilms' tumor ( Puneeta Ramachandra and Fernando Ferrer ). Index.