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Frank Van der Aa
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Publications - 143
Citations - 2574
Frank Van der Aa is an academic researcher from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The author has contributed to research in topics: Urinary incontinence & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 125 publications receiving 2085 citations. Previous affiliations of Frank Van der Aa include Université catholique de Louvain & Vita-Salute San Raffaele University.
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A Comprehensive Review of Overactive Bladder Pathophysiology: On the Way to Tailored Treatment.
Benoit Peyronnet,Emma Mironska,Christopher R. Chapple,Linda Cardozo,Matthias Oelke,Roger R. Dmochowski,Gérard Amarenco,Xavier Gamé,Roger Kirby,Frank Van der Aa,Jean-Nicolas Cornu +10 more
TL;DR: OAB is seen as a complex, multifactorial symptom syndrome, resulting from multiple potential pathophysiological mechanisms, and there is a temptation to label OAB as "idiopathic" without obvious causation.
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Consensus Statement of the European Urology Association and the European Urogynaecological Association on the Use of Implanted Materials for Treating Pelvic Organ Prolapse and Stress Urinary Incontinence
Christopher R. Chapple,Francisco Cruz,Xavier Deffieux,Alfredo L. Milani,Salvador Arlandis,Walter Artibani,Ricarda M. Bauer,Fiona C. Burkhard,Linda Cardozo,David Castro-Diaz,Jean Nicolas Cornu,Jan Deprest,Alfons Gunnemann,Maria Gyhagen,John Heesakkers,Heinz Koelbl,Sheila MacNeil,Gert Naumann,Jan-Paul W. R. Roovers,Stefano Salvatore,Karl-Dietrich Sievert,Tufan Tarcan,Frank Van der Aa,Francesco Montorsi,Manfred P. Wirth,Mohamed Abdel-Fattah +25 more
TL;DR: This document summarises the deliberations of a consensus group meeting convened by the European Association of Urology and the European Urogynecological Association to explore the current evidence relating to the use of polypropylene (PP) materials used for the treatment of SUI and POP.
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Intratunical Injection of Human Adipose Tissue–derived Stem Cells Prevents Fibrosis and Is Associated with Improved Erectile Function in a Rat Model of Peyronie's Disease
Fabio Castiglione,Petter Hedlund,Petter Hedlund,Frank Van der Aa,Trinity J. Bivalacqua,Patrizio Rigatti,Hendrik Van Poppel,Francesco Montorsi,Dirk De Ridder,Maarten Albersen,Maarten Albersen +10 more
TL;DR: Injection of ADSCs into the TA during the active phase of PD prevents the formation of fibrosis and elastosis in the TA and corpus cavernosum and is the first to test stem cell therapy in an animal model of PD.
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Identification of telocytes in the upper lamina propria of the human urinary tract.
Thomas Gevaert,Rita Vos,Frank Van der Aa,Steven Joniau,Joost van den Oord,Tania Roskams,Dirk De Ridder +6 more
TL;DR: The ULP IC in renal pelvis, ureter and urethra had a similar ultrastructural phenotype, which differed somehow from that of bladder IC, that is, thinner and longer cytoplasmic processes, no peripheral actin filaments and presence of dense core granules and microtubules.
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Topography of the vanilloid receptor in the human bladder: more than just the nerve fibers.
TL;DR: The presence and distribution of vanilloid receptor-1 in the human bladder is determined and confirmed or rejected previous findings of other groups that used indirect methods orVanilloid receptors made by immunizing experimental animals are confirmed.