Urology

Case report of a novel mutation of the gene in a patient with branchio-oto-renal syndrome.

Branchio-oto-renal (BOR) syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder characterized by the coexistence...

Polymorphism of angiotensin-converting enzyme (rs4340) and diabetic nephropathy in Caucasians with type 2 diabetes mellitus.

Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is the leading cause of endstage renal disease (ESRD) in developed countri...

Diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease Based on Support Vector Machine by Feature Selection Methods.

As Chronic Kidney Disease progresses slowly, early detection and effective treatment are the only cu...

Cardiac and renal complications of carfilzomib in patients with multiple myeloma.

Clinical trials with carfilzomib have indicated a low but reproducible incidence of cardiovascular a...

Computational methods using genome-wide association studies to predict radiotherapy complications and to identify correlative molecular processes.

The biological cause of clinically observed variability of normal tissue damage following radiothera...

Performance analysis of a machine learning flagging system used to identify a group of individuals at a high risk for colorectal cancer.

Individuals with colorectal cancer (CRC) have a tendency to intestinal bleeding which may result in ...

Application of Machine-Learning Models to Predict Tacrolimus Stable Dose in Renal Transplant Recipients.

Tacrolimus has a narrow therapeutic window and considerable variability in clinical use. Our goal wa...

Response to Editorial Comment from Dr Schwen and Dr Pierorazio to Robot-assisted partial nephrectomy confers excellent long-term outcomes for the treatment of complex cystic renal tumors: Median follow up of 58 months.

Predicting prostate tumour location from multiparametric MRI using Gaussian kernel support vector machines: a preliminary study.

The performance of a support vector machine (SVM) algorithm was investigated to predict prostate tum...

Effect of Positive End-Expiratory Pressure on the Sonographic Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter as a Surrogate for Intracranial Pressure during Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Prostatectomy: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

BACKGROUND: Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) can increase intracranial pressure. Pneumoperito...

Use of bladder volume measurement assessed with ultrasound to predict postoperative urinary retention.

OBJECTIVE: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a common complication after spinal anesthesia. ...

Robot-assisted laparoscopic pyeloplasty in infants using 5-mm instruments.

BACKGROUND: Utilization of the robotic approach to pyeloplasty continues to grow in the field of ped...

Artificial intelligence in medicine.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a general term that implies the use of a computer to model intellige...

A novel sandwich-type electrochemical immunosensor for PSA detection based on PtCu bimetallic hybrid (2D/2D) rGO/g-CN.

In this work, a sensitive sandwich-type electrochemical immunosensor was designed for the quantitati...

Asymptomatic Epstein-Barr Virus Shedding in the Urine of Kidney Transplant Recipients: Case Reports and Review of the Literature.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with a wide range of malignancies and complications like post...

Decreased Renal Function Is a Risk Factor for Subclinical Coronary Atherosclerosis in Korean Postmenopausal Women.

OBJECTIVES: Decreased renal function is associated with increased cardiovascular risk. Our study was...

Postoperative Acute Kidney Injury and Blood Product Transfusion After Synthetic Colloid Use During Cardiac Surgery.

OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the effect of 2 types of hydroxyethyl starches (HES) on renal integr...

F-Choline Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography and Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging for the Detection of Early Local Recurrence of Prostate Cancer Initially Treated by Radiation Therapy: Comparison With Systematic 3-Dimensional Transperineal Mapping Biopsy.

PURPOSE: To compare the diagnostic performance of F-fluorocholine positron emission tomography/compu...

Objective detection of apoptosis in rat renal tissue sections using light microscopy and free image analysis software with subsequent machine learning: Detection of apoptosis in renal tissue.

OBJECTIVE: The current study proposes an automated machine learning approach for the quantification ...

tESA: a distributional measure for calculating semantic relatedness.

BACKGROUND: Semantic relatedness is a measure that quantifies the strength of a semantic link betwee...

Maternal urinary paraben levels and offspring size at birth from a Chinese birth cohort.

BACKGROUND: Parabens are suspected to impair fetal growth because of their endocrine disrupting effe...