Urinary tract obstruction articles from across Nature Portfolio

COVID-19 has had a substantial effect on patients with kidney stones, such as delays in care and increased anxiety and use of opioids. Mitigating these effects in the future could involve an online physician-based discussion as a part of the overall treatment strategy to help patients with their queries, apprehensions and ultimately their decision-making.

Personalized decision-making is the ultimate goal of managing men with lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic obstruction. Urodynamics can provide valuable information in these patients and a recent multicentre randomized trial has highlighted important findings warranting consideration, as well as indicating that further insights are needed.