Urology

Time-updated anion gap and cardiovascular events in advanced chronic kidney disease: a cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Studies examining associations between metabolic acidosis and cardiovascular events in c...

Investigating the global prevalence and consequences of undiagnosed stage 3 chronic kidney disease: methods and rationale for the REVEAL-CKD study.

BACKGROUND: Timely diagnosis and treatment of stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD) can prevent furth...

Associations between depressive symptoms and disease progression in older patients with chronic kidney disease: results of the EQUAL study.

BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with end-s...

Living Donor Robot-Assisted Kidney Transplantation: a New Standard of Care?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) has the potential to combine the adv...

Prostate Cancer: Early Detection and Assessing Clinical Risk Using Deep Machine Learning of High Dimensional Peripheral Blood Flow Cytometric Phenotyping Data.

Detecting the presence of prostate cancer (PCa) and distinguishing low- or intermediate-risk disease...

Application of the Deep Learning Algorithm and Similarity Calculation Model in Optimization of Personalized Online Teaching System of English Course.

This study provides an in-depth study and analysis of English course recommendation techniques throu...

Primal-dual for classification with rejection (PD-CR): a novel method for classification and feature selection-an application in metabolomics studies.

BACKGROUND: Supervised classification methods have been used for many years for feature selection in...

MBANet: Multi-branch aware network for kidney ultrasound images segmentation.

Due to the influence of kidney morphology, heterogeneous structure and image quality, segmenting kid...

Ureteral Reimplantation for Primary Obstructive Megaureter in Pediatric Patients: Is It Time for Robot-Assisted Approach?

To compare open and robotic approach for treatment of Primary Obstructive Megaureter (POM) in a ser...

A prehabilitation programme implemented before robot-assisted radical prostatectomy improves peri-operative outcomes and continence recovery.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of a routine, on-site, 1-day prehabilitation (PreHab) programme on ...

Elevated Levels of Urinary Biomarkers TIMP-2 and IGFBP-7 Predict Acute Kidney Injury in Neonates after Congenital Heart Surgery.

 This article investigated the utility of urine biomarkers tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-2 ...

Precision medicine for the treatment of glomerulonephritis: a bold goal but not yet a transformative achievement.

The revolution in our ability to recognize the alterations in fundamental biology brought about by d...

Potential Surrogate Outcomes for Kidney Failure in Advanced CKD: Evaluation of Power and Predictive Ability in CKDopps.

RATIONALE & OBJECTIVE: Potential surrogate end points for kidney failure have been proposed in chron...

Native BK virus nephropathy in lung transplant: a case report and literature review.

Classically described in renal allografts, BK virus nephropathy is increasingly recognized in native...

Artificial intelligence and prostate cancer: Advances and challenges.

DMFLDA: A Deep Learning Framework for Predicting lncRNA-Disease Associations.

A growing amount of evidence suggests that long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) play important roles in th...

Deep Learning Reconstruction Enables Highly Accelerated Biparametric MR Imaging of the Prostate.

BACKGROUND: Early diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) can be curative; however, prostat...

Comparison of a Kidney Replacement Therapy Risk Score Developed in Kaiser Permanente Northwest vs Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate in Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease Using Decision Curve Analysis.

INTRODUCTION: Use of kidney replacement therapy (KRT) prediction models for guiding arteriovenous fi...

Posterior musculofascial reconstruction in robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy for the treatment of clinically localised prostate cancer: a Cochrane Review.

OBJECTIVES: To assess the effects of posterior musculofascial reconstruction robot-assisted laparosc...

Validation of an MRI-based prostate cancer prebiopsy Gleason score predictive nomogram.

BACKGROUND: Gleason score grading is a cornerstone of risk stratification and management of patients...

Transvesical Approach in Robot-Assisted Bladder Diverticulectomy: Surgical Technique and Outcome.

Treatment for bladder diverticula may become necessary in case of incomplete bladder emptying or re...