Review

. 2020 Jun;125(6):E7-E14.

doi: 10.1111/bju.15071. Epub 2020 May 12.

COVID-19 and urology: a comprehensive review of the literature

Stefano Puliatti^{1

2

3}, Ahmed Eissa^{1

4}, Radwa Eissa⁵, Marco Amato^{1

2}, Elio Mazzone⁶, Paolo Dell'Oglio⁶, Maria Chiara Sighinolfi¹, Ahmed Zoeir^{1

4}, Salvatore Micali¹, Giampaolo Bianchi¹, Vipul Patel⁷, Peter Wiklund⁸, Rafael F Coelho⁹, Jean-Christophe Bernhard¹⁰, Prokar Dasgupta^{11

12}, Alexandre Mottrie^{2

3}, Bernardo Rocco¹

Affiliations

¹ Urology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
² ORSI Academy, Melle, Belgium.
³ Department of Urology, Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium.
⁴ Urology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
⁵ Microbiology and Virology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
⁶ Department of Urology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Global Robotics Institute, Florida Hospital-Celebration Health Celebration, University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁸ Department of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ Department of urology, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
¹⁰ Chirurgie Urologique, CHU de Bordeaux, France.
¹¹ Department of Urology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, UK.
¹² MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, King's Health Partners, London, UK.

PMID: 32249538
DOI: 10.1111/bju.15071

Review

COVID-19 and urology: a comprehensive review of the literature

Stefano Puliatti et al. BJU Int. 2020 Jun.

. 2020 Jun;125(6):E7-E14.

doi: 10.1111/bju.15071. Epub 2020 May 12.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Urology Department, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.
² ORSI Academy, Melle, Belgium.
³ Department of Urology, Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, Aalst, Belgium.
⁴ Urology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
⁵ Microbiology and Virology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
⁶ Department of Urology, ASST Grande Ospedale Metropolitano Niguarda, Milan, Italy.
⁷ Global Robotics Institute, Florida Hospital-Celebration Health Celebration, University of Central Florida School of Medicine, Orlando, FL, USA.
⁸ Department of Urology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁹ Department of urology, Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
¹⁰ Chirurgie Urologique, CHU de Bordeaux, France.
¹¹ Department of Urology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's Health Partners, London, UK.
¹² MRC Centre for Transplantation, King's College London, King's Health Partners, London, UK.

PMID: 32249538
DOI: 10.1111/bju.15071

Abstract

Objective: To discuss the impact of COVID-19 on global health, particularly on urological practice and to review some of the available recommendations reported in the literature.

Material and methods: In the current narrative review the PubMed database was searched to identify all the related reports discussing the impact of COVID-19 on the urological field.

Results: The COVID-19 pandemic is the latest and biggest global health threat. Medical and surgical priorities have changed dramatically to cope with the current challenge. These changes include postponements of all elective outpatient visits and surgical procedures to save facilities and resources for urgent cases and patients with COVID-19 patients. This review discuss some of the related changes in urology.

Conclusions: Over the coming weeks, healthcare workers including urologists will be facing increasingly difficult challenges, and consequently, they should adopt triage strategy to avoid wasting of medical resources and they should endorse sufficient protection policies to guard against infection when dealing with COVID-19 patients.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; pandemic; urology.

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