Emergencies in Urology

The scientific and clinical focus of Markus Hohenfellner is urologic oncology and tumor surgery, minimally invasive urology including robotics and continent reconstruction of the lower urinary tract. The Department of Urology Heidelberg covers the entire spectrum of modern urology including prevention, early detection, ultraradical tumor surgery, minimally invasive and robotic-assisted surgery (Da Vinci) lower urinary tract dysfunction, pediatric urology, stone therapy and andrology. In the translational perspective, the Department of Urology Heidelberg has implemented a section of Molecular Urooncology, directed by Prof. Stefan Duensing. It is a renowned research institution on its own as well as a critical gateway to relevant basic science institutions and working groups. Markus Hohenfellner is a member of several national and international urological societies. He is chairman of the EAU Working Group on Urologic Trauma and the responsible representative of the German Urological Association to establish guidelines on Urologic Trauma. He is author/co-author of numerous scientific publications and book chapters, as well as co-editor of the texts "Emergencies in Urology", "Aktuelles aus Klinik und Praxis der Urologie", "Reconstructive Surgery of the Lower Urinary Tract in Children". In 2015 he introduced "Semi-Live" as a new format to communicate surgical science. The aim is to promote international, scientific exchange and the transfer of urological-surgical knowledge.

Dr. Richard Santucci is an expert in Reconstructive Urology. He obtained his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA and completed his residency at University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA.  He's one of the few fellowship-trained Reconstructive Urologists in the USA. Richard Santucci spent 18 years as one of the nation's premier academic reconstructive urologist in the Detroit Medical Center and Clinical Professor in Michigan State College of Medicine Harper, USA. In 2018 he joined the practice of Dr. Curtis Crane, working out of the Austin location of the Crane Center for Transgender Surgery. Dr. Santucci's deep experience with complex genitourinary surgery uniquely positions him to excel at the most technically challenging gender affirming procedures, such as Phalloplasty and Vaginoplasty.

Dr. Santucci is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, abstracts and book chapters, and has served on the editorial boards of more than twelve journals. He is the co-editor of the texts Emergencies in Urology, The Atlas of Urethroplasty, and Penile Reconstructive Surgery. He is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the online Open-Access Urology journal, Advances in Urology. Dr. Santucci regularly presents at national and international conferences, and has trained other urologists in complex urethral reconstruction procedures. In fact, he trained both Dr. Curtis Crane and Dr. Mang Chen in the art of Reconstructive Urology. 

Urologic Emergencies: Overview.- The Clinical Approach to the Acutely Ill Patient.- New Developments in Anesthesia.- Anaphylaxis.- Urosepsis.- Fournier's Gangrene.- Urologic Emergencies in Pregnant Women: Special Considerations.- Urologic Emergencies in Children: Special Considerations.- Autonomic Dysreflexia and Emergencies in Neurogenic Bladder.- Failure of Urinary Drainage: Upper Urinary.- Failure of Urinary Drainage: Lower Tract.- Scrotal Emergencies.- Oncologic Emergencies.- Urologic Paraneoplastic Syndromes.- Trauma.w- Urologic Trauma: General Considerations.- Modern Trauma: New Mechanisms of Injury Due to Terrorist Attacks.- Mass Casualties: Urologic Aspects of Triage and Definitive Management.- Renal Trauma.- Trauma of the Ureter.- Bladder Trauma.- Genital Trauma.- Management of Penile Amputation.- Urethral Trauma.- Priapism.- Intraoperative Complications.- Management of Intraoperative Complications in Open Procedures.- Complications in Endoscopic Procedures.- TUR-Related Complications.- Complications in Laparoscopic Surgery.- Postoperative Complications.- Acute Postoperative Complication.- Preventing and Managing Infectious Emergencies of Urologic Surgery.- Emergencies in Continent Bladder Replacement.- Emergencies Following Renal Transplantation.- Open Salvage Surgery.- Surgical Techniques: Endoscopic and Percutaneous Procedures.- Interventional Radiology in Emergencies in Urology.- Selected Case Reports and Personal Experience.- Percutaneous Approach for Difficult Stones.- The Relaxing Incision for Priapism.- Priapism Redux.- Iatrogenic Pathology, Undiversion, Contralateral Renal Autotransplantation.- Deferred Emergency Surgery of Total Rupture of the Posterior Urethra.- Surgery of Complicated Horseshoe Kidney.- Cold Fire.- Lost in the Kidney.- A Rare Accident.- Appendectomy.- Posterior Sagittal Approach in Pediatric Urology.- Postoperative Urinary Retention After Hypospadias Repair.- Hairs in the Urethra of a Hypospadias Patient.- A Tale of Two Brothers.- Unfortunate Honeymoon Under the Palm Trees.- Intravenous Uroperitoneogram.- Coitus Interruptus.- Exploding Bladder.- Education by Humiliation.- Vena Caval Injury.- False Sepsis and Advanced TCC.- Laparoscopic Vascular Emergency.- Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy.- Bladder Tumor.- Frenulum.- Penile Fracture Associated with Urethral Rupture and Its Complex Repair.- Low-Flow Priapism in Children.- Tragic Complications of Missed Urethral Injury.- Keep Looking.- What Goes in Must Come Out.- Metabolic Dangers of the Neobladder.- Torsion After Minor Insult.- Fleas and Lice at the Same Time.- Continent Urinary Diversion for the Treatment of Urinary Fistulae Through a Sacral Scar in a Paraplegic Patient.- Entrapped Foley Catheter After Radical Prostatectomy.- Unexpected Inferior Vena Caval Thrombus.- The Lord of the Rings - Fournier's Gangrene as a Consequence of Strangulating Testicular Rings.