Management of Patients Who Seek Urologic Care in Covid-19 Pandemic Era

Human beings are being exposed to extreme events such as natural disasters, pandemic, war etc. time to time. Novel coronavirus Disease (Covid-19) has emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019 (1) and became a pandemic in a few weeks. This pandemic brings along with a significant workload to healthcare givers and economic burden to governments. To overcome this pandemic, every government took their own precautions such quarantine and limited daily life. By being in the core of the pandemic, health care systems took strict measures including postponement of all elective surgeries and outpatient clinic visits. In this review, we aimed to summarize the current urologic practice trends worldwide to help urologist in decision making in Covid-19 pandemic. There have been numerous studies and reviews in this topic however most of them focusing on a unique section of urology such as urooncology or urolithiasis. this review is a more compact article contains different areas of urology that many urologists might be utilized. We have performed a PubMed and Internet search by using the keywords: ‘Covid’, ‘new coronavirus’, ‘coronavirus urology, ‘covid urology’ without a date restriction. Studies consisting of valid findings and recommendations on review topics were included the review. Main review topics were urooncology, urinary stone disease, urological emergencies and renal transplantation.