Nephrology

Analysis of Clinical Parameters, Drug Consumption and Use of Health Resources in a Southern European Population with Alcohol Abuse Disorder during COVID-19 Pandemic.

The disruption in healthcare attention to people with alcohol dependence, along with psychological d...

Robotic Transplant Surgery Broadening the Playing Field.

Malignancy risk stratification of cystic renal lesions based on a contrast-enhanced CT-based machine learning model and a clinical decision algorithm.

OBJECTIVE: To distinguish benign from malignant cystic renal lesions (CRL) using a contrast-enhanced...

Efficacy and feasibility of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for octogenarians: comparison with younger counterparts.

To compare short-term functional and surgical outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) ...

Indocyanine Green Drives Computer Vision Based 3D Augmented Reality Robot Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: The Beginning of "Automatic" Overlapping Era.

Augmented reality robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (AR-RAPN) is limited by the need of a constant ...

Identification of glomerulosclerosis using IBM Watson and shallow neural networks.

BACKGROUND: Advanced stages of different renal diseases feature glomerular sclerosis at a histologic...

Prediction model of acute kidney injury induced by cisplatin in older adults using a machine learning algorithm.

BACKGROUND: Early detection and prediction of cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (Cis-AKI) are es...

Editorial Comment to Expanding the limits of nephron-sparing surgery: Surgical technique and mid-term outcomes of purely off-clamp robotic partial nephrectomy for totally endophytic renal tumors.

First completely robot-assisted retroperitoneal nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff: a step-by-step technique.

INTRODUCTION: While various surgical techniques have been reported for open and minimally invasive t...

Ranking patients on the kidney transplant waiting list based on fuzzy inference system.

BACKGROUND: Kidney transplantation is the best treatment for people with End-Stage Renal Disease (ES...

Machine learning prediction model of acute kidney injury after percutaneous coronary intervention.

Acute kidney injury (AKI) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is associated with a signif...

Connection between the Plasma Level of Apelin and Diabetic Nephropathy in Type 2 Diabetic Patients. A Case Control Study.

BACKGROUND: Apelin is an adipokine that may have an advantageous role in the prediction of early dia...

Using Machine Learning to Identify Metabolomic Signatures of Pediatric Chronic Kidney Disease Etiology.

BACKGROUND: Untargeted plasma metabolomic profiling combined with machine learning (ML) may lead to ...

A Novel Diabetes Healthcare Disease Prediction Framework Using Machine Learning Techniques.

Diabetes is a chronic disease that continues to be a significant and global concern since it affects...

Using Machine Learning to Evaluate the Role of Microinflammation in Cardiovascular Events in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease.

BACKGROUND: Lipid metabolism disorder, as one major complication in patients with chronic kidney dis...

Simultaneous robotic partial nephrectomy for bilateral renal masses.

PURPOSE: There is currently no consensus regarding the optimal treatment strategy for patients prese...

Artificial intelligence approaches to the determinants of women's vaginal dryness using general hospital data.

The aim of this study is to analyse the determinants of women's vaginal dryness using machine learni...

Machine Learning Assisted Simultaneous Structural Profiling of Differently Charged Proteins in a Porin A (MspA) Electroosmotic Trap.

The nanopore is emerging as a means of single-molecule protein sensing. However, proteins demonstrat...

Long-Term Oncological and Functional Outcomes After Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy for Clinically Localized Renal Cell Carcinoma.

BACKGROUND: To evaluate long-term oncological and renal function outcomes in patients treated with r...

Gibberellic acid-induced hepatorenal dysfunction and oxidative stress: Mitigation by quercetin through modulation of antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antiapoptotic activities.

The plant growth regulator gibberellic acid (GA3) is widely used in agriculture in many countries. H...

Assessment of the effect of sub-lethal acute toxicity of Emamectin benzoate in using multiple biomarker approach.

Emamectin benzoate (EMB) is a potent neurotoxin agent, widely used for ectoparasites control in aqua...