Urology

Quantified treatment effect at the individual level is more indicative for personalized radical prostatectomy recommendation: implications for prostate cancer treatment using deep learning.

BACKGROUND: There are potential uncertainties and overtreatment existing in radical prostatectomy (RP) for prostate cancer (PCa) patients, thus identifying optimal candidates is quite important.

First-trimester urinary extracellular vesicles as predictors of preterm birth: an insight into immune programming.

The programming of innate and adaptive immunity plays a pivotal role in determining the course of pregnancy, leading to either normal term birth (TB) or preterm birth (PB) through the modulation of macrophage (M1/M2) differentiation. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) in maternal blood, harboring a repertoire of physiological and pathological messengers, are integral players in pregnancy outcomes. It i...

Viral load kinetics and the clinical consequences of cytomegalovirus in kidney transplantation.

BACKGROUND: Despite advances in clinical management, cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection remains a serious complication and an important cause of morbidit...

Artificial intelligence assisted patient blood and urine droplet pattern analysis for non-invasive and accurate diagnosis of bladder cancer.

Bladder cancer is one of the most common cancer types in the urinary system. Yet, current bladder cancer diagnosis and follow-up techniques are time-c...

Application of STREAM-URO and APPRAISE-AI reporting standards for artificial intelligence studies in pediatric urology: A case example with pediatric hydronephrosis.

INTRODUCTION: Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in pediatric urology is gaining increased popularity and credibility. However, th...

Outcomes of robot-assisted laparoscopic extended pelvic lymph node dissection for prostate Cancer.

INTRODUCTION: Extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) in men undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a widely use...

Isolation and characterization of exosome-enriched urinary extracellular vesicles from Dent's disease type 1 Spanish patients.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Dent's disease type 1 (DD1) is a rare X-linked hereditary pathology caused by CLCN5 mutations that is characterized mainly ...

Current practice and unmet training needs in robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: investigation from the Junior ERUS/YAU working group.

PURPOSE: To access the current scenario of robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy training in multiple centers worldwide.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning trends in kidney care.

BACKGROUND: The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in kidney care has seen a significant rise in recent years. This...

Urinary Symptoms Change and Quality of Life After Robotic Radical Prostatectomy: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial.

OBJECTIVE: To present the patient-reported quality of life (QoL) outcomes from a prospective, randomized controlled trial comparing the use of pelvic ...

Validation of a Zero-shot Learning Natural Language Processing Tool to Facilitate Data Abstraction for Urologic Research.

BACKGROUND: Urologic research often requires data abstraction from unstructured text contained within the electronic health record. A number of natura...

Noninvasive Assessment of Kidney Injury by Combining Structure and Function Using Artificial Intelligence-Based Manganese-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is seriously limited in kidney injury detection due to the nephrotoxicity of clinically used gadoli...

Early port site and peritoneal metastasis following robot-assisted radical cystectomy: a rare case report.

Radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node dissection is the recommended treatment for managing muscle-invasive carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Early...

Improved prostate cancer diagnosis using a modified ResNet50-based deep learning architecture.

Prostate cancer, the most common cancer in men, is influenced by age, family history, genetics, and lifestyle factors. Early detection of prostate can...

Prescription trend and lactic acidosis in patients prescribed metformin before and after the revision of package insert for allowing metformin administration to patients with moderately decreased kidney function based on real-world data from MID-NET in Japan.

INTRODUCTION: This study was conducted to understand the impact of package insert (PI) revision in Japan on 18 June 2019 to allow metformin use for pa...

Reply to Carmen Gravina, Matteo Romagnoli, Antonio Nacchia, et al.'s Letter to the Editor re: Edward Lambert, Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, Christophe Vaessen, et al. Robot-assisted Periprostatic Artificial Urinary Sphincter Implantation in Men with Neurogenic Stress Urinary Incontinence: Description of the Surgical Technique and Comparison of Long-term Functional Outcomes with the Open Approach. Eur Urol. 2024;85:139-145.

Improving image quality of triple-low-protocol renal artery CT angiography with deep-learning image reconstruction: a comparative study with standard-dose single-energy and dual-energy CT with adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction.

AIM: To investigate the improvement in image quality of triple-low-protocol (low radiation, low contrast medium dose, low injection speed) renal arter...

DARDN: A Deep-Learning Approach for CTCF Binding Sequence Classification and Oncogenic Regulatory Feature Discovery.

Characterization of gene regulatory mechanisms in cancer is a key task in cancer genomics. CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF), a DNA binding protein, exhibit...

Deep Learning-Based Detection and Classification of Bone Lesions on Staging Computed Tomography in Prostate Cancer: A Development Study.

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES: Efficiently detecting and characterizing metastatic bone lesions on staging CT is crucial for prostate cancer (PCa) care. Ho...

IDEAL-D Phase 0 Evaluation of the Avatera System in Robot-Assisted Prostate, Bladder and Renal Surgery.

To evaluate the utilization of novel Avatera system in urological operations according to the IDEAL-D framework recommendations for high-risk invasiv...