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Primary Bladder Neck Obstruction in Men and Women: an Update on Diagnosis and Management

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This detailed review focuses on history, presentation, diagnosis, and management of PBNO in both men and women.
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Primary bladder neck obstruction (PBNO) is a rare condition of the lower urinary tract seen in young and middle-aged patients. The true prevalence of this entity is unknown; however, it has been reported in 5–11 % of young women and 28–54 % of young men with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). The diagnosis of PBNO requires a high index of suspicion and an experienced clinician due to the variety of presenting urinary symptoms, and often a much delayed presentation, which frequently is not reported by patients, and often misdiagnosed by clinicians. Videourodynamics (VUDS) will greatly assist in making the diagnosis. Observation, medical therapy, and surgical therapy are the treatment options with variable success rates. This detailed review focuses on history, presentation, diagnosis, and management of PBNO in both men and women.

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Anatomy of the Infrarenal Aortic Plexus: Implications for Nerve-Sparing Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection

TL;DR: The goal of the present thesis is to provide the first comprehensive characterization of the aortic plexus as it pertains to nerve-sparing RPLND, by characterizing the anatomy of the constituent nerves and ganglia through dissection of human cadavers.
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Female primary bladder neck obstruction: role of videourodynamics and treatment options in a rare clinical entity.

TL;DR: In the experience, bladder neck obstruction is a rare condition in women and only a complete clinical evaluation associated with videourodynamic study can lead to an appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
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Diagnosis and Treatment of Primary Bladder Neck Obstruction in Men

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the typical presenting symptoms and signs that commonly may lead to a missed diagnosis for a number of years in many cases, and most treatments have not been studied in prospective, randomized trials to assess true efficacy.
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Primary bladder neck obstruction in men – what´s new in the pathophysiology of this underestimated problem?

TL;DR: The cause of primary bladder neck obstruction has not yet been clarified and has so far been a clinical differential diagnosis after the exclusion of the usual differential diagnoses of LUTS and bladder emptying disorders as discussed by the authors .
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Bladder outlet obstruction nomogram for women with lower urinary tract symptomatology.

TL;DR: The nomogram makes it possible to differentiate between obstructed and unobstructed women and between various degrees of obstruction, and may also serve as an instrument to assess treatment outcomes.
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Diagnosing bladder outlet obstruction in women.

TL;DR: Using the proposed video urodynamic criteria obstructed cases had significantly higher voiding pressures, lower flow rates and higher post-void residual than unobstructed cases, as expected, but absolute values are not as dramatic in women as in men.