Upper Urinary Tract Emergencies
Chapter 2 Upper Urinary Tract Emergencies Ragada El-Damanawi and Andrew Fry1 / Ben Pullar and Samih Al-Hayek2,3 ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY1 Definition and staging Acute kidney injury (AKI) is defined as…
Lower Urinary Tract Emergencies
Chapter 3 Lower Urinary Tract Emergencies David Thurtle and Suzanne Biers1, 3, 4, 5 / Alexandra Colquhoun2 URINARY RETENTION1 Acute urinary retention (AUR) is the painful inability to pass urine…
Trauma in Urology
Chapter 5 Trauma in Urology Tom Mitchell and James Armitage Urological trauma may be classified into that affecting the upper urinary tract; the lower urinary tract; and genitoscrotal trauma (Box…
Genitoscrotal Emergencies
Chapter 4 Genitoscrotal Emergencies Michal Sut and CJ Shukla ACUTE SCROTUM Acute scrotum is a general term referring to an emergency condition affecting the contents or the wall of the…
Assessing the Unwell Urological Patient
Chapter 1 Assessing the Unwell Urological Patient David Thurtle and Suzanne Biers The approach to a new urological patient should be structured and concise. This approach should include initial resuscitation…
Interventional Uroradiology Procedures
Chapter 8 Interventional Uroradiology Procedures Tariq Ali and Andrew Winterbottom Interventional radiology is a subspecialty of radiology that uses minimally invasive, image-guided techniques to both diagnose and treat conditions throughout…
Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Biomaterials Advantages Disadvantages Biodegradable synthetic polymers Easy to process Less biological properties than natural polymers Controlled biodegradation rate Degrade to form by-products Controlled surface characteristics Hydrophobic nature Tunable mechanical properties …
3D Bioprinting for Tissue Engineering
Fig. 5.1 The classical tissue engineering approach Recently, bioprinting has emerged as a technology within tissue engineering; it is a two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) fabrication method that uses living…
Bioreactors for Regenerative Medicine in Urology
Fig. 4.1 Spinner-flask bioreactor. (a) Schematic design [13]. (b) Human iPSC cultures in a spinner-flask bioreactor and the cultured iPSCs on the Matrigel-coated polystyrene beads and cell aggregations (c) and…
Cell Technologies
Fig. 3.1 Amniotic stem cells Fig. 3.2 Differentiation potency of amniotic fluid stem cells into muscle, neuron, endothelium, bone, fat, and chondrocyte The stem cells are usually extracted from the…
