Nephrology

[A Case of Bladder Adenocarcinoma with Rectal Metastasis].

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

[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...

[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...

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...

Bubble-free electrokinetic flow with propylene carbonate.

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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....

[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...

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...

Robotically assisted amniotic membrane transplant surgery.

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

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

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

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

Exploiting expert systems in cardiology: a comparative study.

An improved Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) in the field of critical cardiovascular di...

[NEW METHOD OF PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY WITH SELECTIVE PARENCHYMA CLAMPING].

The authors suggested a new method of performance of open, laparoscopic and robot-assisted partial n...

Intrapartum fetal heart rate classification from trajectory in Sparse SVM feature space.

Intrapartum fetal heart rate (FHR) constitutes a prominent source of information for the assessment ...

Sodium thiosulfate for the treatment of warfarin-induced calciphylaxis in a nondialysis patient.

Calciphylaxis or uremic arteriolopathy is a complex process typically seen in patients with end-stag...

[A case report of hepatitis B virus reactivation in a hepatitis B core antibody-positive, hepatitis B surface antigen-negative hemodialysis patient].

Reactivation of the hepatitis B virus (HBV) has been reported in patients receiving immunosuppressiv...