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 chronic kidney disease (CKD) have shown conflicting results and have not differentiated between normal anion gap (hyperchloremic) acidosis and high anion gap acidosis. We aimed to examine the impact of normal and high anion gap acidosis, separately, on the risk of cardiovascular events among patients...

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-stage kidney disease; however, few small studies have examined this association in patients with earlier phases of chronic kidney disease (CKD). We studied associations between baseline depressive symptoms and clinical outcomes in older patients with advanced CKD and examined whether these associatio...

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 further loss of kidney function and progression to kidn...

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 advantages of minimally invasive surgery with the bes...

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 through a combination of bee colony algorithm and neura...

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 from high-risk disease early, and without the nee...

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 metabolomics and other omics studies. We develope...

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 series of pediatric patients. Medical records of all...

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

Due to the influence of kidney morphology, heterogeneous structure and image quality, segmenting kidney in ultrasound images is challenging. To allevi...

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 peri-operative and continence recovery after robot...

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 (TIMP-2) and insulin-like growth factor binding pr...

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 disease has fostered a renewed interest in precisio...

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 chronic kidney disease (CKD); however, they must be eva...

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 kidneys of other non-renal solid organ transplant...

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 the regulation of biological processes in many human...

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, prostate-specific antigen is a suboptimal screening test ...

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 fistula (AVF) referrals in advanced chronic kidney d...

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 laparoscopic prostatectomy (PR-RALP) compared to no PR dur...

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 recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs). When blad...