2026 update on EAU Guidelines for neuro-urology

What are you excited about? What are the main changes that have happened in the guidelines this year?

It means there's no real exciting update on that part.

It is not a single one.

It is all.

This is the great way because when you're thinking about the EAU guidelines, they are updated regularly.

When we compare AUA guidelines on neuro-urology, they were released 2021 and haven't been updated yet.

They're completely outdated.

And this is the exciting thing, what we really have at the EAU.

But one point I really like to highlight is that we have included a section on patient's perspective.

We have two representatives first.

from the patient perspective, actually, as patient representative in our guideline panel.

And this is a big step forward.

Absolutely.

So important, isn't it? We always sort of talk about the importance of shared decision-making and that's exactly where the patient's perspective comes into it.

We may often overlook what patient's values and preferences are when we're sort of formulating management plans.

So it's really, really important to have them involved.

I mean, one of the sort of key areas that they could potentially help influence is the whole sort of focus on intermittent catheterization and the potential changes associated that we might be seeing in the next couple of years.

So one example being sort of the type of catheter, single use or reusable.

So again, getting the patient's perspective on that would be really, really important.

And what are your thoughts on that? Is that something that's been mentioned in the guidelines update this year, or is it too premature?

Yeah, at the moment, we haven't included that.

We had this game-changer session, actually, where we really entered Bertil Block's trial compare, where it came out that single-use versus reusable catheter is almost the same.

And having this perspective included in the future, this is just a very, very big step forward.

Yeah.

Absolutely.