Drug Treatment in Urology

Great strides have been made in the understanding of the scientific basis of urological conditions and this has allowed the development of drugs for a wide variety of urological disorders.
This book provides urologists with a working guide to the rapidly growing armoury of drugs available to them.


List of contributors.
Preface.

Part 1 Functional Disorders.

1 Urinary Incontinence (Stephen J. Griffin & William H. Turner).

2 Medical Therapy for Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (Simon R. J. Bott, Charlotte L. Foley & Roger S. Kirby).

3 Drugs Used in the Treatment of Erectile Dysfunction (Ian Eardley).

4 Drugs Used in the Treatment of Interstitial Cystitis (Mary Garthwaite & Ian Eardley).

Part 2 Urinary Tract Infection.

5 Treatment of Simple Urinary Tract Infection (Dana Stieber & Kalpana Gupta).

6 New Concepts in Antimicrobial Treatment for Complicated Urinary Tract Infections: Single Daily Aminoglycoside Dosing and ‘Switch’ Therapy (Richard A. Santucci & John N. Krieger).

7 Prostatitis (Martin Ludwig & Wolfgang Weidner).

8 Perioperative Antimicrobial Prophylaxis in Urological Interventions of the Urinary and Male Genital Tract (Kurt G. Naber).

9 Candiduria (Jack D. Sobel).

Part 3 Urological Oncology.

10 Pharmacotherapy in the Management of Prostate Cancer (Jeetesh Bhardwa & Roger S. Kirby).

11 Drugs in Superficial Bladder Cancer (Peter Whelan).

12 Systemic Therapy for Bladder Cancer (J. D. Chester & M. G. Leahy).

13 Testicular Cancer (Jourik A. Gietema & Dirk Th. Sleijfer).

14 Renal Cancer (Naveen S. Vasudev & Poulam M. Patel).

Part 4 Analgesia.

15 Postoperative Analgesia (Patrick McHugh).

16 Treatment of Pain in Urology (Adrian D. Joyce & William R. Cross).

Index.


Ian Eardley, Consultant Urologist,St James's University, Leeds

Peter Whelan, Consultant Urologist,St James's University, Leeds


Roger Kirkby, London


Anthony Schaeffer, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, USA