月: 2020年5月

性感染症の特殊尿検査（性感染症マルチプレックスPCR検査）

It’s been 4 years in Cambodia that I was exploring  my specialty, Noticeably, there’re so many patients who came to see me but deep down inside, they really want  to get counselling  over the Sexually transmitted disease (STD) issues.  Especially, people who got a very risky sexuality intercourse with a stranger partners which is new to them. And most of people who came to me come up with a 100% male. Why male? As you already know that the male who got infected or carried this bacteria, subjectively symptoms will show at any time. However, female will show no symptoms if they got infected or carried the bacteria.  A few […]

PSA（前立腺がん）スクリーニングテストを行うべきでしょうか？

I have been practiced in Urology office so far. A simply consulting from the other departments is about-the references of total PSA value from the screening test which is considered 4.0 ng/mL as normal reference. This kind of problem made the patients suffered a lot, especially psychological harm and I spent a bunch times to explain them for what is the big deal? Let me update you guys on PSA screening program. If we questioned that “what kind of cancer screening test is the most concern in the world?” The answer is “Cervical cancer screening program” but what about prostate cancer? The answer is “not necessarily” I will tell you […]

牡蠣は、性欲を高めますか？

Have you guys ever experienced when someone orders oysters, and friends joke saying, “Do you have plans with your wife or your girlfriend tonight?” I have heard that sentence so many times. So I wonder, do oysters have scientifically proven effects on improve libido? So I searched through literature. I could not find any scientific evidence about oysters improve libido. But, if we talked about animal products that might increase libido, there are mentions in Eastern medicine wisdom. From the belief of “We consume the power from what we eat.” So if we want to improve our penis, we eat a mammal’s penis. Unfortunately, there is still no scientific evidence to support these […]

泌尿器科の側面からCOVID-19について　:　 Q&A

During this period of time, I think ain’t body don’t know the COVID-19 or SARS-COV-2. The novel pandemic of the respiratory infection which is originated contagious virus from Wuhan, Mainland China. There have been many patients asked me that; does this virus impact urinary tract system? Well, let’s take a look together COVID-19 in Urology aspects (Updated April 29, 2020) Can the virus attack our urinary tract system? Answer Yes, it can! Due to SARS-COV-2 attack the human receptor named Angiotensin-converting enzyme type 2 (ACE2) which located at lung, heart, esophagus, ileum, urinary bladder and kidney. What symptoms after urinary tract system have been infected? Answer It’s been caused probably […]

非侵襲的な第4世代ESWLによる腎臓結石の治療。

Now days, every modern surgeon aims to do every operation as non-invasively as possible. In the past, kidney stones had be done by open surgery, Luckily right now we have several methods to get rid of the stone without any wound or minimizing the wound. ESWL is one option for stone management we are going to talk about. The first machine was invented in Germany after World War 2. With the benefits of shockwave sound that can infiltrate into skin without any wound, it has been developed into the 4th generation machine which does not need to be done under anaesthesia so the patient can save on unnecessary expenses in […]