Urology

[Evaluation of equations using cystatin C for estimation of the glomerular filtration rate in healthy adult population of canidates for kidney donors.].

The determination of the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) is critical for the selection of potential...

Natural History and Predictors of Parastomal Hernia after Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy and Ileal Conduit Urinary Diversion.

PURPOSE: We investigated the prevalence of and variables associated with parastomal hernia and its o...

Urinary bladder cancer staging in CT urography using machine learning.

PURPOSE: To evaluate the feasibility of using an objective computer-aided system to assess bladder c...

Influence of Referral to a Combined Diabetology and Nephrology Clinic on Renal Functional Trends and Metabolic Parameters in Adults With Diabetic Kidney Disease.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of a diabetes renal clinic (DRC) on renal functional and metabolic ...

Interstitial inflammation and interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy predict renal survival in lupus nephritis.

BACKGROUND: This study examines the effect of interstitial inflammation and interstitial fibrosis an...

DRMDA: deep representations-based miRNA-disease association prediction.

Recently, microRNAs (miRNAs) are confirmed to be important molecules within many crucial biological ...

Re: Robot-assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy Versus Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: Early Outcomes from a Randomised Controlled Phase 3 Study.

A Machine Learning Approach Using Survival Statistics to Predict Graft Survival in Kidney Transplant Recipients: A Multicenter Cohort Study.

Accurate prediction of graft survival after kidney transplant is limited by the complexity and heter...

Bladder Cancer Treatment Response Assessment in CT using Radiomics with Deep-Learning.

Cross-sectional X-ray imaging has become the standard for staging most solid organ malignancies. How...

An efficient method for kidney allocation problem: a credibility-based fuzzy common weights data envelopment analysis approach.

Given the perennial imbalance and chronic scarcity between the demand for and supply of available or...

Re: Selective Arterial Clamping Does Not Improve Outcomes in Robot-Assisted Partial Nephrectomy: A Propensity-Score Analysis of Patients without Impaired Renal Function.

The relationship between kidney function and quality of life among community-dwelling adults varies by age and filtration marker.

BACKGROUND: The impact of a diminished level of kidney function on the well-being of an older indivi...

Pressure-related flow rates for continuous renal replacement therapy in very small children: an in vitro study.

OBJECTIVE: Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) is extremely challenging in very small childr...

A scheme based on ICD-10 diagnoses and drug prescriptions to stage chronic kidney disease severity in healthcare administrative records.

BACKGROUND: Information about renal function is important for drug safety studies using administrati...

Patterns of progression of chronic kidney disease at later stages.

BACKGROUND: At later stages of chronic kidney disease (CKD), a pattern of linear and irreversible re...

Changes in cardiac function and hemodynamics during robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy with steep head-down tilt: a prospective observational study.

OBJECTIVE: Robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy requires the patient to be placed in a steep he...

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees using Bayesian Model Averaging.

Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) is a statistical sum of trees model. It can be considered ...

The Impact of Adding Sentinel Node Biopsy to Extended Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection on Biochemical Recurrence in Prostate Cancer Patients Treated with Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

The benefit of adding sentinel node biopsy (SNB) to extended pelvic lymph node dissection (ePLND) re...

Intra-Abdominal Cooling System Limits Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury During Robot-Assisted Renal Transplantation.

Robot-assisted kidney transplantation is feasible; however, concerns have been raised about possible...

Automated diagnosis of prostate cancer in multi-parametric MRI based on multimodal convolutional neural networks.

Automated methods for prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis in multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging...

Robot-assisted surgery in a broader healthcare perspective: a difference-in-difference-based cost analysis of a national prostatectomy cohort.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate costs attributable to robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) as com...