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An intervention using an electronic mobile health (mHealth) tool is not only feasible and acceptable but also delivers useful educational content and symptom management to patients undergoing radical cystectomy, according to a study.

Adherence to thiazide diuretics among patients with urolithiasis and hypercalciuria leads to fewer symptomatic stone events, as does adherence to alkali therapy among those with low urine pH, according to a retrospective cohort study.

The combination therapy of nivolumab plus cabozantinib (NIVO + CABO) continues to show long-term survival benefits and response rates over sunitinib at 55 months in patients with previously untreated advanced renal cell carcinoma (aRCC), according to updated results of the CheckMate 9ER study presented at ASCO GU 2024.

In patients undergoing transurethral resection of prostate (TURP), treatment with low-dose epinephrine falls short of reducing blood loss during the operation but appears to minimize the incidence of hypotension, as reported in a study.

Contemporary urethroplasty delivers high long-term patency and satisfaction to patients undergoing such a procedure, a recent study confirms. Moreover, those with longer stricture, lichen sclerosus, radiation, and infectious aetiologies are at greater risk of stricture recurrence in the future.