Evidence-based Urology

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.


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. Schünemann).

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. Schröder).

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 (Frédéric 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.