Urology

How can the presence of a surgical care practitioner improve training for staff who are learning how to scrub for robotics cases in a urology theatre?

AIM: This study examines how a surgical care practitioner can contribute to the learning needs of ju...

Assessing urinary levels of IL-18, NGAL and albumin creatinine ratio in patients with diabetic nephropathy.

AIMS: Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a serious microvascular complication of a longstanding hyperglyce...

Prophylactic Intravenous Hydration to Protect Renal Function From Intravascular Iodinated Contrast Material (AMACING): Long-term Results of a Prospective, Randomised, Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: The aim of A MAastricht Contrast-Induced Nephropathy Guideline (AMACING) trial was to ev...

Combined Low Dose Rate Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiation Therapy for Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer.

INTRODUCTION: This is a retrospective study conducted to report the tumor control and late toxicity ...

Multiregion segmentation of bladder cancer structures in MRI with progressive dilated convolutional networks.

PURPOSE: Precise segmentation of bladder walls and tumor regions is an essential step toward noninva...

Response to Barry re: Learning Curves and Timing of Surgical Trials: Robotic Kidney Transplantation with Regional Hypothermia by Ahlawat et al. (From: Barry JM. J Endourolo 2018;32:1166; DOI: 1089/end.2018.0419).

Development of an Artificial Intelligence Model to Guide the Management of Blood Pressure, Fluid Volume, and Dialysis Dose in End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients: Proof of Concept and First Clinical Assessment.

BACKGROUND: Fluid volume and blood pressure (BP) management are crucial endpoints for end-stage kidn...

A Randomized Control Trial Of Anti-Inflammatory Regional Hypothermia On Urinary Continence During Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

The present study seeks to present a single-blind, randomized control trial of a hypothermic anti-in...

The association between serum uric acid to creatinine ratio and renal disease progression in type 2 diabetic patients in Chinese communities.

AIMS: Serum uric acid (UA) increases in patients with kidney disease due to the impaired UA clearanc...

LogLoss-BERAF: An ensemble-based machine learning model for constructing highly accurate diagnostic sets of methylation sites accounting for heterogeneity in prostate cancer.

Although modern methods of whole genome DNA methylation analysis have a wide range of applications, ...

Re: Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Versus Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: 24-month Outcomes from a Randomised Controlled Study.

Radiofrequency endometrial ablation for treating heavy menstrual bleeding in women with chronic renal failure.

OBJECTIVE: The study objective was to retrospectively evaluate the efficacy and safety of radiofrequ...

Learning deep similarity metric for 3D MR-TRUS image registration.

PURPOSE: The fusion of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance (MR) images for guiding ...

Computer-aided diagnosis of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract in children based on ultrasound imaging data by integrating texture image features and deep transfer learning image features.

INTRODUCTION: Anatomic characteristics of kidneys derived from ultrasound images are potential bioma...

Risky Business: Judging the Use of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for Non-Valvular Atrial Fibrillation in Patients with Renal Dysfunction.

Warfarin, for many years, was the only oral anticoagulant availablt on the market for the prevention...

Deep Confidence: A Computationally Efficient Framework for Calculating Reliable Prediction Errors for Deep Neural Networks.

Deep learning architectures have proved versatile in a number of drug discovery applications, includ...

Usefulness of Delayed Introduction of Tacrolimus in Kidney Transplants Using Type-III Donors After Circulatory Death.

INTRODUCTION: Our study compares 2 immunosuppressive strategies to reduce tacrolimus nephrotoxicity ...

A collaborative computer aided diagnosis (C-CAD) system with eye-tracking, sparse attentional model, and deep learning.

Computer aided diagnosis (CAD) tools help radiologists to reduce diagnostic errors such as missing t...

Vapoenucleation of the Prostate Using 180 W GreenLight Laser.

INTRODUCTION: The vapoenucleation of the prostate using green laser is an alternative hybrid techniq...

Urinary concentrations and profiles of organophosphate and pyrethroid pesticide metabolites and phenoxyacid herbicides in populations in eight countries.

Concentrations of nine metabolites of organophosphate and pyrethroid insecticides, as well as two ph...

Results of Phase 1 study on cytoreductive radical prostatectomy in men with newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer.

BACKGROUND: Preclinical and retrospective data suggest that cytoreductive radical prostatectomy may ...