For children with neurogenic bladder, augmentation cystoplasty (AC) is safe and effective, with low surgical and metabolic complication rates, according to a study published online Feb. 20 in ...

The 2026 ASCO annual meeting featured a bladder cancer session and a presentation by Dr. Dawood Hasan discussing rethinking ...

Women with bladder cancer face differences in diagnosis and treatment and have worse outcomes than men despite lower incidence. This disparity cannot be univocally ascribed to bias or biology but ...

Can growing blood vessels within a lab-engineered graft improve bladder reconstruction for children? For more than two ...

Urinary bladder dysfunction can be caused by environmental, genetic, and developmental insults. Depending upon insult severity, the bladder may lose its ability to maintain volumetric capacity and ...

For adults with neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD) or interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), robot-assisted laparoscopic supratrigonal cystectomy with augmentation ...

Graphical comparison of bladder augmentation surgery using either ileum (top) or a cell-seeded, biodegradable scaffold (bottom). MSCs and HSPCs represent different types of stem cells found in the ...

UGN-102 had similar disease-free survival outcomes in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer, regardless of whether the therapy was given with surgery. Groups of patients with newly diagnosed and ...

The cutaneous catheterizable ileocecocytoplasty is a surgery that we have found to be very successful here at University of Utah Health. In this surgery the bladder is expanded with large bowel from ...

TAR-200, a small drug-releasing implant, wiped out tumors in most patients with high-risk bladder cancer. Its slow, consistent release of chemotherapy proved far more effective than traditional ...

Adjuvant nivolumab significantly improves disease-free and overall survival in high-risk muscle-invasive urothelial cancer post-resection, especially in patients with PD-L1 expression ≥1%. Opdivo ...

One of the most helpful tests in the evaluation of neurogenic bladder is called a urodynamic test. Urodynamic testing is also called a cystometrogram (CMG). In this test a very small catheter is ...