Wednesday, May 8, 1996 Podium Session 39 11:30 am to 1:30 pm ]

EPIDEMIOLOGIC/OUTCOMES ANALYSIS Room 224 E-H, Orange County Convention Center

Moderators: Lawrence W. Jones, Pasadena, CA Claus G. Roehrborn, Dallas, TX

(Note: all presentations are 7 minutes in length.)

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The impact of obstructive vs. irrltafive urinary symptoms on the quality of life (QOL): extend- ing the clinical usefulness of the American Urological Association (AUA) symptom index.

Scott A. MacDirmiad and Talmage M. Holmes, Little Rock, AR (Presented by Dr. Holmes).

The diagnostic value of cytodiagnostic urin- alyses in asymptomatic microhematuria.

Joseph Motta and John A. Fracchia, New York, NY; G. Berry Schumann and Janet Schumann, Stratford, CT; Richard G. Greenberg, Philadelphia, PA (Presented by Dr. Motta).

Hypertension in men with symptoms of lower urinary tract dysfunction.

Fernando Calais de Silva, Lisbon, Portugal; Peter Boyle, Patrick Maisonneuve, Pavel Napalkov and Carlo Cipolla, Milan, Italy; James Pool, Houston, Texas (Presented by Dr. Boyle).

Men with greater abdominal adiposity are more likely to have larger prostates.

Thomas Rhodes, Cynthia J. Girman, Steven J. Jacobsen, Rosebud O. Roberts, Harry A. Guess and Michael M. Lieber, Rochester, MN (Presented by Dr. Lieber).

Prevalence and impact of incontinence follow- ing radical prostatectomy: a follow-up survey.

Patricia S. Goode, Kathryn L. Burgio, Julie L. Locher, Anna D'Amico, Mary G. Umlauf and Donald Urban, Birmingham, AL (Presented by Dr. Goode).

Urinary symptoms have impact on broad range of physical and mental health states.

Rosebud O. Roberts, Steven J. Jacobsen, Thomas Rhodes, Cynthia J. Girman, Harry A. Guess and Michael M. Lieber, Rochester, MN (Presented by Dr. Roberts).

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Blood conservation techniques in urologic sur- gery: preliminary experience.

Robert Helm, Robert G. Uzzo, L. Thomas O'Connor, Todd K. Rosengart, Karl H. Krieger and George Young, New York, NY (Presented by Dr. Uzzo).

High prevalence of prostatism and benign pros- tatic hyperplasia in Korean men.

Hyo-Joong Moon, Pusan, Korea; Woo-Chul Moon, Kyung-Keun Seo and Young Sun Kim, Seoul, Korea (Presented by Dr. Hyo-Joong Moon).

The prevalence of prostatism in Korea: factors affecting I-PSS.

Hak-Ryong Choi, Jae Mann Song, Sung Joon Hong, Woo Sik Chung, Do Whan Sung, Moo Sang Lee and Sung Won Kwon, Seoul, Korea (Presented by Dr. Song).

Is antibiotic prophylaxis needed in scrotal surgery?

Peter H. Bernhard, Mary M. Olson, James T. Lee, Joseph Thurn, Richard M. Evans and Pratap K. Reddy, Minneapolis, MN (Presented by Dr. Bernhard).

Cultural and linguistic validation of the interna- tional prostate symptom score in Russia.

Pavel Napalkov, Peter Boyle and Patrick Maisonneuve, Milan, Italy; Nikolay Vishnjakov, Salman AI-Shukri, Alexandr Ivin, Sergei Hodosevich, Larisa Kochorova and Andrei Lukianov, St. Petersburg, Russia (Presented by Dr. Napalkov).

Psychological aspects of male sub-fertility and its investigation.

Lesley GIover, Ken Gannon and Paul D. Abel, London, UK (Presented by Ms. Glover).

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