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Nocturia: Proposals for Future Investigation

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Nocturia is an entity whose clinical, pathological, and therapeutic features are ­currently being shaped. Further research is necessary to help separate nocturia from its historical “bundling” with other LUTS. For example, suggestions in popular media that overactive bladder and prostate therapies are capable of achieving clinically meaningful improvements in nocturia remain to be verified.

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  1. Department of Urology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Jeffrey P. Weiss MD, FACS

  2. VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, Brooklyn, NY, USA

    Jeffrey P. Weiss MD, FACS

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  1. SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, Clarkson Avenue 450, Brooklyn, 11203, New York, USA

    Jeffrey P. Weiss, MD, FACS

  2. , Department of Urology, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, E. 77th Street 445, New York, 10021, USA

    Jerry G. Blaivas, MD

  3. , Department of Urology, Maastricht University Medical Center, P. Debeylaan 25, Maastricht, 6229 HX, Netherlands

    Philip E. V. Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, MMSc

  4. Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Urology, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman West, 3400 Spruce Street 3, PHILADELPHIA, 19104, Pennsylvania, USA

    Alan J. Wein, MD, FACS, PhD(hon)

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Weiss, J.P. (2012). Nocturia: Proposals for Future Investigation. In: Weiss, MD, FACS, J., Blaivas, MD, J., Van Kerrebroeck, MD, PhD, MMSc, P., Wein, MD, FACS, PhD(hon), A. (eds) Nocturia. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1156-7_12

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