TTMed Urology presents its full coverage of the European Association of Urology (EAU) Annual Congress 2012 and other relevant content to be published in TTMed Urology
2. soon to be available for viewing on www.ttmed.com/urology/eau2012
Tune in to listen to the original lectures with their synchronized slide presentations. The EAU 2012 webcasts will include all
Plenary Sessions, all Thematic Sessions (except for #6 and 8), all Video Sessions (except for #8) and all European
School of Urology (ESU) Courses (except for #20), allowing access to these key presentations all year long.
PLENARY SESSIONS ESU Course 7. Management of Small Renal Tumours
Plenary Session 1. Urothelial Cancer ESU Course 8. Laparoscopic and Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic
Plenary Session 2. Functional Urology Radical Cystectomy
Plenary Session 3. Technology and New Techniques in Urology: ESU Course 9. Advanced Course on Upper Tract Laparoscopy
An Update (UPJ, Adrenal and Stones)
Plenary Session 4. Personalised Treatment for Low and ESU Course 10. Advanced Course on Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
Intermediate Risk Prostate Cancer ESU Course 11. Painful Bladder/Chronic Pelvic Pain; in Men
and Women
THEMATIC SESSIONS ESU Course 12. Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction and Urodynamics
Thematic Session 1. Andrology ESU Course 13. Robot Surgery in Urology – How to Start
Thematic Session 2. Update in Paediatric Urology ESU Course 14. Surgical Management of Locally Advanced and
Thematic Session 3. Renal Cancer – Choice of Treatment Metastatic Renal Cancer
Thematic Session 4. Infection and Inflammation in Urology ESU Course 15. Laparoscopy for Beginners
Thematic Session 5. Transplant and Cancer: Controversies ESU Course 16. Testicular Cancer
and Challenges ESU Course 17. Minimal Invasive Prostate Cancer Therapy
Thematic Session 7. Urogenital Imaging: A Session by the ESU Course 18. Metastatic Prostate Cancer
European Society of Urogenital Radiology
ESU Course 19. Robot Renal Surgery
Thematic Session 9. Genital Cancer in the Male
ESU Course 21. Vaginal Surgery for Urologists
Thematic Session 10. BPH: Primum non Nocere
ESU Course 22. Radical Cystectomy and Orthotopic Bladder
Thematic Session 11. The Personalised Treatment of Urinary Substitution – Surgical Tricks and Management
Stone Disease of Complications
Thematic Session 12. Female Stress Incontinence
ESU Course 23. Surgery or Radiotherapy for Localised and Locally
Thematic Session 13. Joint EAU-European Society of Surgical Advanced Prostate Cancer
Oncology Session
ESU Course 24. Flexible Ureterorenoscopy and Retrograde
Thematic Session 14. Molecular Diagnostics in Bladder Cancer Intrarenal Surgery: Instrumentation, Technique,
Thematic Session 15. EAU Guidelines Office: An Update Tips and Tricks, Indications
ESU Course 25. The Infertile Couple – Urological Aspects
VIDEO SESSIONS
ESU Course 26. Single Port Surgery and Hybrid Procedures
Video Session 1. New Developments in Partial Nephrectomy
ESU Course 27. Diagnosis and Management of Non-Muscle
Video Session 2. Pelvic and Urethral Reconstruction Invasive Bladder Cancer (NMIBC)
Video Session 3. Tips and Tricks in Robotic Prostatic Surgery ESU Course 28. Advanced Management of Urethral Stricture
Video Session 4. Challenging Robotic Surgery Disease
Video Session 5. LESS ESU Course 29. Interventional Therapies for BPH
Video Session 6. Laparoscopic Renal Surgery ESU Course 30. Paediatric Urology for the Adult Urologist: A
Video Session 7. Miscellaneous Practical Update
ESU Course 31. Renal Transplantation: Technical Aspects,
EUROPEAN SCHOOL OF UROLOGY (ESU) COURSES Diagnosis and Management of Early and Late
ESU Course 1. Prostate Cancer – Screening, Diagnosis and Urological Complications
Staging ESU Course 32. Advanced Course on Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
ESU Course 2. Female Pelvic Floor Problems ESU Course 33. Management and Outcome in Invasive and Locally
ESU Course 3. Update on Stone Disease Advanced Bladder Cancer
ESU Course 4. Retropubic Radical Prostatectomy – Tips, Tricks ESU Course 34. Urinary Tract and Genital Trauma
and Pitfalls ESU Course 35. Ultrasound for the Urologist – TRUS and TRUS
ESU Course 5. Office Management of Male Sexual Dysfunction Guided Biopsies
ESU Course 6. Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy ESU Course 36. Medical Uro-Oncology
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3. Volume 12 – Number 1 - Winter 2012 International Edition
Articles
Interstitial Cystitis: One Hundred Years of Mysteries and Frustrations
R. Vela Navarrete and C. González Enguita
Urology Department, Fundación Jiménez Díaz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
INTRODUCTION
In recent years, there has been plenty of medical literature on inter- effort to nosologically identifying all types of cystitis by applying strict
stitial cystitis, and the reader may have the impression that there anatomoclinical and microbiological criteria. With this broad view of
have been great advances in nosological identification and treat- the problem, he was clearly able to identify interstitial cystitis and to
ment. Recently, the American Urological Association (AUA) pub- distinguish it from other numerous types of cystitis. His work was
lished the Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Interstitial compiled in a book published in 1945 entitled "Cistitis y Cistopatías"
Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome. This article aims to compare the (Cystitis and Cystopathies) (2) which, in our opinion, constitutes an
proposals included in these guidelines with the unique experience of unsurpassable historical milestone that more than 50 years later
our institution, which has been a reference center for this disease for remains a solid, lasting reference. In this article we compare some of
more than 50 years. The experience gained during these years is due his conclusions with the ones included in the AUA guidelines, which
to extraordinary work done by Luis Cifuentes during the second and summarize modern terminology and the diagnostic and therapeutic
third decades of the last century, when he devoted a great deal of advances achieved in recent years.
For the full article see www.ttmed.com/urology
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Reconstructive Urology in the Female: Selected Scenarios and Management
Christopher E. Wolter and Leah Y. Nakamura, Department of Urology, Mayo Clinic – Arizona, Phoenix,
Arizona, USA
Current Strategies For Superficial Bladder Cancer
Eduardo Solsona Narbón, Chief of Urology Service, Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia, Spain
Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer, Is It Safe?
Monique J. Roobol, Erasmus University Medical Center, Department of Urology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
New Teaching Slides
Overactive Bladder (OAB) Part I: A New Paradigm Transperitoneal Laparoscopic Adrenalectomy
Overactive Bladder (OAB) Part II: Initial Therapy Stephan Hruby, Lukas Lusuardi, Stephan Jeschke and
and Treatment of Refractory OAB Guenter Janetschek
Jerry G. Blaivas Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical College and
SUNY-Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA
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ROBOTIC SURGERY
Robotic Pyeloplasty: Cases of High Insertion and Aberrant Crossing Vessels
Michael Musch, Lukas Hohenhorst and Darko Kroepfl
Department of Urology, Pediatric Urology and Urological Oncology, Kliniken Essen-Mitte, Essen, Germany
ROBOTIC SURGERY
Technical Advances in Robotic Partial Nephrectomy
Craig G. Rogers
Vattikuti Urology Institute, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY AND ENDOUROLOGY
Genitourinary Fistulas: Minimally Invasive Laparoscopic Removal
Rene Sotelo and Rafael Clavijo
Center for Robotic Surgery and Minimally Invasive (CIMI), La Floresta Medical Institute, Caracas, Venezuela
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