We retrospectively reviewed the records of 150 patients who underwent HoLEP at three different institutions: A, B and C, one university hospital and two community hospitals. They each consisted of 50 ...

A meta-analysis of RCTs supports holmium laser as safer and more effective in a few key aspects compared with the plasma technique for initial management of NMIBC. Holmium laser resection of ...

The prostate is a gland located just beneath the bladder of every man. Urethra, the tube that carries urine from the bladder to exterior passes through the prostate. With age, there are various ...

A randomized trial found a similar stone-free rate after pulse-modulated Holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG) laser vs thulium fiber laser (TFL) treatment of kidney stones. An investigator reported trial data during ...

Further recommendations have been made as part of the clinical guideline on lower urinary tract symptoms published in May 2010, as follows: Clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence was reviewed in the ...

Over the years, TURP has been boosting the place for the last 80 years, and obviously, every procedure that is coming in new is compared to the standard, which is what is called the gold standard ...

Researchers at IBM claim to have developed a technique to store and retrieve data from a single atom. In comparison, current magnetic hard-disk drives require around 100,000 atoms to store a single ...

Physicists in Europe have resolved a long-standing puzzle regarding the energy released when an isotope of the rare-earth element holmium decays via electron capture. They say that their extremely ...