Nephrology

Integration of multimodal RNA-seq data for prediction of kidney cancer survival.

Kidney cancer is of prominent concern in modern medicine. Predicting patient survival is critical to...

[Analysis of risk factors for prognosis of patients with acute paraquat intoxication].

OBJECTIVE: To explore the risk factors influencing the prognosis by analyzing clinical data of patie...

[Simultaneous determination of four drugs for kidney diseases in urine by high performance liquid chromatography].

A high performance liquid chromatographic (HPLC) method was proposed for the simultaneous determinat...

[A Case of Bladder Adenocarcinoma with Rectal Metastasis].

A 77 year-old man with asymptomatic microscopic hematuria underwent a cystoscopic examination, which...

[New FP Therapy Was Effective for a Case of Massive Hepatocellular Carcinoma].

A 62 year-old woman was hospitalized with the diagnosis of pneumonia, and a huge mass was recognized...

[R0 Resection by Distal Pancreatectomy with En Bloc Celiac Axis Resection after Down-Staging by FOLFIRINOX Therapy in a Case of Pancreas Cancer--Report of a Case].

The patient, a 55-year-old man, was diagnosed elsewhere as having cancer of the tail of the pancreas...

[A Case of Gastric Cancer with Multiple Liver Metastases Treated with XP Chemotherapy and RFA Resulting in a Complete Response for a Long Time].

A 60-year-old man underwent total gastrectomy with Japanese D2 lymph node dissection for advanced ga...

Comparison of non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants and warfarin on clinical outcomes in atrial fibrillation patients with renal dysfunction.

AIMS: We aimed to compare the efficacy and safety between non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulan...

Bubble-free electrokinetic flow with propylene carbonate.

For electroosmotic pumping, a large direct-current (DC) electric field (10+ V/cm) is applied across ...

Intraoperative Management of an Incidentally Identified Ectopic Ureter Inserting Into the Prostate of a Patient Undergoing Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer: A Case Report.

Congenital variations in urinary tract anatomy present unique surgical challenges when they present ...

SVM-Based CAC System for B-Mode Kidney Ultrasound Images.

The present study proposes a computer-aided classification (CAC) system for three kidney classes, vi...

Right Atrium Volume Index in Patients with Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.

BACKGROUND: Right atrium volume index has recently been described as a quantitative and highly repro...

Implementation of a User-Friendly, Flexible Expert System for Selecting Optimal Set of Kidney Exchange Combinations of Patients in a Transplantation Center.

INTRODUCTION: For end-stage renal disease patients, kidney transplantation is the only long-term sol...

Significant Correlation between Brachial Pulse Pressure Index and Renal Resistive Index.

BACKGROUND: The renal resistive index (RI) is calculated as (peak systolic velocity - minimum diasto...

[Application of support vector machine approach in studying nephron toxicity of Chinese medicinal materials].

On the basis of web databases, 111 compounds with nephrotoxicity and 90 compounds without nephrotoxi...

Words of wisdom. Re: Can selective arterial clamping with fluorescence imaging preserve kidney function during robotic partial nephrectomy?

Prechemotherapy robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical nephrectomy for an adolescent with Wilms tumor.

Although Wilms tumor (WT) is the most common pediatric renal tumor, adolescent and adult WT is rare....

[Robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy: functional and oncological outcomes].

BACKGROUND: In recent years, small renal masses (SRM) have been increasingly detected as an incident...

Minimally invasive kidney transplantation: perioperative considerations and key 6-month outcomes.

BACKGROUND: Minimally invasive approaches to kidney transplantation (KT) have been described recentl...

Robotically assisted amniotic membrane transplant surgery.

[Analysis of the Effectiveness of Renoprotection of Low-Protein Diet and Ketoanalogues of Amino Acids In Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease].

AIM: Analysis of the effectiveness of renoprotection in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD), ...