ICS Video Podcast with Howard Goldman and Laurence Stewart

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This edition features Howard Goldman (ICS Annual Scientific Co-Chair) and Laurence Stewart (ICS Scientific Chair) talking about the ICS 2020 online Scientific Committee meeting and programme.

Both Chairs agree that it is still important to have a meeting, COVID shouldn't stop the scientific activity for medical professionals.

As in previous year's the programme offers something for everyone! Check out the sessions recommended by Laurence and Howard:

Neuromodulation:

• Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction in Neurogenic Patients
• Pivotal study of subcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation with coin-sized implantable tibial neurostimulator (eCoin device) for urgency urinary incontinence
• Neuromodulation in the Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction: Current Best Practice, Innovation and the Future PRIZE AWARD: Best in Category Prize - Overactive Bladder
• SOA 3, Bugs, Brain and the Gut – Towards a Better Understanding of Pathophysiology and Management of Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction
• Spotlight on 4, Spotlight On INUS: Bladder Management after SCI: Successes & Challenges
• Workshop, Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction in Neurogenic Patients

Botulinum Toxin:

• Which urodynamic parameters can predict the outcome of intravesical injections of Onabotulinum Toxin A for overactive bladder?
• The efficacy of onabotulinum toxin A in patients with previous failed augmentation cystoplasty
• Real World Outcomes of Intravesical Onabotulinum Toxin A in Patients with Symptomatic Overactive Bladder

Nerves:

• Workshop, ICS Institute of Modern Technology - Advances in Neurostimulation: Technology-Based Approach
• Comparing the Efficacy of OnabotulinumtoxinA, Sacral Neuromodulation, and Peripheral Tibial Nerve Stimulation as Third Line Treatment for the Management of Overactive Bladder Symptoms in Adults: Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis
• Nerve growth factor precursor (PRONGF) exerts different biological actions on urothelial and smooth muscle cells of rodents bladders.
• Pivotal study of subcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation with coin-sized implantable tibial neurostimulator (ecoin device) for urgency urinary incontinence PRIZE AWARD: Best in Category Prize - Overactive Bladder

Female Urethral Strictures:

• Treatment of Urethral Stricture Disease in Women: a Multi-Institutional Collaborative Project PRIZE AWARD: Best Clinical Abstract
• Safety and efficacy of Holmium laser versus cold knife direct vision internal urethrotomy in management of bulbar urethral stricture
• Low – Power Holmium: YAG Laser Visual Internal Urethrotomy For The Management of Urethral Stricture Disease In A Tertiary Government Hospital: A Descriptive Study

Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation:

• New technique of robot-assisted implantation of artificial urinary sphincter by posterior approach and intraoperative cystoscopic monitoring: early experience
• Long term results of artificial urinary sphincter implantation for stress urinary incontinence in children: a monocentric retrospective study
• Overactive Bladder Syndrome After Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation – Is It Harder to Treat?
• Post-Artificial Urinary Sphincter Prostate Radiation is a Predictor of Urethral Atrophy with Recurrent Incontinence PRIZE AWARD: Best in Category Prize - Male Stress Urinary Incontinence (Post Prostatectomy Incontinence)

Adjustable Male Slings:

• Adjustable TransObturator Male Sling (ATOMS®) for male neurogenic stress urinary incontinence: report on initial experience.
• ATOMS adjustable sling: Could it be considered as an effective option for complex male stress incontinence cases?

Basic Science:

• Nerve growth factor precursor (prongf) exerts different biological actions on urothelial and smooth muscle cells of rodents bladders.
• Fatty acid metabolite, Palmitoylethanolamide, increases nerve growth factor excretion and induces nocturia through G protein-coupled receptor 55 in the bladder urothelium.
• Behavioral, Histopathological and Molecular Evaluation of Using Low Energy Shock Wave Therapy in a Rat Model of Epirubicin-Induced Cystitis
• Neuromodulation in the Management of Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction: Current Best Practice, Innovation and the Future

Round tables:

• New UDS Technology
• If you can’t Stand the Heat…. Appraising the Evidence for Thermal therapy in Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction
• Robotic Functional Urology: Fact or Fiction?
• Your Stress Incontinence Surgery Failed - Now What?

State of the Art:

• Placebo Effect on LUTS
• Evidence Based Review of Transvaginal Hysteropexy for Uterovaginal Prolapse
• Bugs, Brain and the Gut – Towards a Better Understanding of Pathophysiology and Management of Neurogenic Bowel Dysfunction

Final words from Laurence "ICS is a family type meeting, it's like a family wedding. It is truly multi-disciplinary. Go and see some of the good science. The SOA's are the showcases of the meeting, I would make a point of attending these. Then dip into the sessions based on your interest. Finally, go and see something that's not in the realm of your interest. This gives a better breath of understanding to you."

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