Connecting the Urological Community : The #UroSoMe Experience

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Kalyan Gudaru
Leonardo Tortolero Blanco
Daniele Castellani
Hegel Trujillo Santamaria
Marcela Pelayo-Nieto
Edgar Linden-Castro
Marcelo Langer Wroclawski
Mateus Consentino Bellote
Jon Mikel Inarritu
Rodrigo Donalisio Da Silva
Vineet Gauhar
Zainal Adwin
Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh

Abstract

Background and Objectives


There is an increasing use of social media amongst the urological community. However, it is difficult to identify urological data on various social media platforms in an efficient manner. We proposed a hashtag, #UroSoMe, to be used when posting urology-related content in the social media platforms. The objectives of this article are to describe how #UroSoMe was developed, and to report the data of the first month of #UroSoMe.


 


Material and Methods


The hashtag, #UroSoMe, was introduced to the urological community. The #UroSoMe working group was formed, and the members actively invited and encouraged people to use the hashtag #UroSoMe when posting urology-related contents. After the #UroSoMe (@so_uro) platform on twitter had grown to more than 300 users, the first live event of online case discussion, i.e. #LiveCaseDiscussions, was conducted. A prospective observational study of the hashtag #UroSoMe Twitter activity during the first month of its usage from 14 December 2018 to 13 January 2019 was evaluated. Outcome measures included number of users, number of tweets, user location, top tweeters, top hashtags used and interactions. Analysis was performed using NodeXL (Social Media Research Foundation; California, USA; https://www.smrfoundation.org/nodexl/), Symplur (https:// www.symplur.com) and Twitonomy (https://www.twitonomy.com).


 


Results


The first month of #UroSoMe activity documented 1373 tweets/retweets by 1008 tweeters with 17698 mentions and 1003 replies. The #LiveCaseDiscussions was able to achieve a potential reach of 2,033,352 Twitter users. The top tweets mainly included cases presented by #UroSoMe working group members during #LiveCaseDiscussions. The twitonomy map showed participation from 214 geographical locations. The major groups of participants using the hashtag #UroSoMe were ‘Researcher/Academic’ and ‘Doctor’. The twitter account of #UroSoMe (@so_uro) has now grown to more than 1000 followers.


 


Conclusions


Social media is an excellent platform for interaction amongst the urological community. The results demonstrated that #UroSoMe was able to achieve wide spread engagement from all over the world.

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Gudaru, K., Blanco, L. T., Castellani, D., Santamaria, H. T., Pelayo-Nieto, M., Linden-Castro, E., Wroclawski, M. L., Bellote, M. C., Inarritu, J. M., Da Silva, R. D., Gauhar, V., Adwin, Z., & Teoh, J. Y.-C. (2019). Connecting the Urological Community : The #UroSoMe Experience. Journal of Endoluminal Endourology, 2(2), e20-e29. https://doi.org/10.22374/jeleu.v2i2.44
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Author Biographies

Kalyan Gudaru, Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India and S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Leonardo Tortolero Blanco, Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Daniele Castellani, Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Hegel Trujillo Santamaria, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Marcela Pelayo-Nieto, Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Edgar Linden-Castro, Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Marcelo Langer Wroclawski, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil and BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Mateus Consentino Bellote, Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Jon Mikel Inarritu, Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Rodrigo Donalisio Da Silva, Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA and Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Vineet Gauhar, Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Zainal Adwin, Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

Jeremy Yuen-Chun Teoh, S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Authors:

Kalyan GUDARU 1,2, Leonardo Tortolero BLANCO 3, Daniele CASTELLANI 4, Hegel Trujillo SANTAMARIA 5, Marcela PELAYO-NIETO 6, Edgar LINDEN-CASTRO 6, Marcelo Langer WROCLAWSKI 7,8, Mateus Cosentino BELLOTE 9, Jon Mikel INARRITU 10, Rodrigo Donalisio DA SILVA 11,12, Vineet GAUHAR 13, Zainal ADWIN 14, Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH 2 on behalf of the #UroSoMe working group

 

Affiliations:

1 Department of Urology, Sri Venkateswara Institute Of Medical Sciences, Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, India

2 S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

3Hospital Imed Levante, Alicante, Spain

4Department of Urology, IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy

5Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social. Centro Medico Nacional, Unidad Medica De Alta especialidad No.14 “Lic. Adolfo Ruiz Cortines” Veracruz, México.

6Centro Médico Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico

7Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo – SP, Brazil 

8BP - A Beneficência Portuguesa de São Paulo, São Paulo – SP, Brazil

9Urology Department, Federal University Of Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, Paraná State, Brazil

10Department of urology. The American British Cowdray Medical Center, Mexico City, Mexico.

11Division of Urology, University of Colorado, Denver-CO, USA

12Denver Health Medical Center, Denver-CO, USA

13Department of Urology, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital, NUHS, Singapore

14Faculty of Medicine, University Teknologi Mara, Malaysia

 

Corresponding Author:

Jeremy Yuen-Chun TEOH

Assistant Professor

S.H. Ho Urology Centre, Department of Surgery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

Contact No.: 3505 2625

Fax No.: 2637 7479

Email: jeremyteoh@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk

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