Urology

Global transitions of concomitant patterns and risk factors of cardio-renal-metabolic conditions among the elderly.

BACKGROUND: Cardio-renal-metabolic (CRM) diseases-including ischemic heart disease (IHD), stroke, ty...

Artificial Intelligence in equivocal prostatic needle biopsies: benign mimics and cancer detection.

BACKGROUND: Equivocal prostatic needle biopsies are diagnostically challenging because minute atypic...

Predicting left-ventricular recovery and characterizing Cardiorenal risk after Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: A routine-data phenotyping and prediction-model study.

BACKGROUND: Ejection fraction (LVEF) underpins risk stratification before transcatheter aortic valve...

Association of blood urea nitrogen to high-density lipoprotein ratio with all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in individuals with mildly reduced eGFR.

BACKGROUND: Patients with mild-to-moderate renal impairment face elevated cardiovascular risk, yet e...

A pilot study of a urinary IL-8 and IL-17-based formula for discriminating Hunner-type from non-Hunner-type interstitial cystitis.

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether urinary or plasma cytokines more effectively differentiate Hunner-ty...

Metabolic convergence of diabetes and prostate cancer: from dysglycemia to tumor microenvironment reprogramming.

The relationship between diabetes mellitus and prostate cancer (PC) represents one of the most intri...

Heterogeneous effects of preoperative beta blockers on 30-day mortality after coronary artery bypass surgery.

BACKGROUND: The role of preoperative β-blocker therapy in patients with ventricular dysfunction unde...

Smart medical technologies in peritoneal dialysis: current applications and future perspectives.

With the global rise in end-stage kidney disease cases, peritoneal dialysis (PD) has become a critic...

Governing artificial intelligence in cancer care: Perspectives and recommendations from patient organizations and the MULTIR consortium.

BACKGROUND: Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to improve cancer care. Its implementatio...

Interpretable machine learning for individualized survival prediction in node-positive, non-metastatic prostate cancer: a population-based study.

BACKGROUND: Prostate cancer with regional lymph node involvement but no distant metastasis (N1M0) ha...

Machine Learning-Based Subtype Classification of Sepsis-Associated Acute Kidney Injury and Differential Responses to Renal Replacement Therapy.

BackgroundSepsis-associated acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) is highly heterogeneous with controversial ...

Antimicrobial dosing in patients with renal dysfunction.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Many antimicrobials used in critically ill patients are predominantly eliminated ...

PCa Detection in PI-RADS 4 and 5 Lesions: Comparison of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT-Guided Robot-Assisted Biopsy Versus mpMRI Cognitive-Fusion TRUS-Guided Prostate Biopsy.

Lesions with a Prostate Imaging-Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) score of 4 or greater on multipa...

PI-QUAL in Clinical Practice: Rationale and a Step-by-Step Approach to Implementation.

Prostate MRI has become integral to prostate cancer diagnosis and management, extending beyond prebi...

Automatic Kidney Image Segmentation During Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy Using a Deep Learning Model Based on a Multiannotator Dataset: Model Development and Validation Study.

BACKGROUND: Augmented reality (AR) has emerged as a promising tool to enhance surgical precision dur...

The Ferroptosis-Immunity Axis in Diabetic Kidney Disease: Emerging Therapeutic Targets.

SIGNIFICANCE: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a leading cause of end-stage renal disease worldwide....

Editorial Comment on: "Artificial Intelligence-Powered Cystoscopy Diagnostic Support System: Clinical Application of Multiarchitecture Deep Learning Models" by Zhang et al.

Real-time MRI-ultrasound image translation under limited paired data using a physically motivated conditional GAN.

Objective. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound (US) provide complementary anatomical and...

From assistant to collaborator: A systematic review of the evolution of artificial intelligence in end-stage renal disease care and management.

We aimed to systematically analyze the historical evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) in end-s...

Multiscale Switch for Semi-Supervised and Contrastive Learning in Medical Ultrasound Image Segmentation.

Medical ultrasound (US) image segmentation faces significant challenges due to limited labeled data ...

New Evidence in Heart Failure: 2026 Update.

Heart failure (HF) remains a major cause of morbidity, mortality, impaired quality of life and healt...