Urology

Effect of Long-Term Hormonal Therapy (vs Short-Term Hormonal Therapy): A Secondary Analysis of Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients Treated on NRG Oncology RTOG 9202.

PURPOSE: NRG Oncology RTOG 9202 was a randomized trial testing long-term adjuvant androgen deprivati...

An ultrasound image navigation robotic prostate brachytherapy system based on US to MRI deformable image registration method.

OBJECTIVE: This paper describes an ultrasound image navigation robotic prostate brachytherapy system...

Serum Testosterone Levels Are Negatively Correlated with International Prostate Symptom Score and Transitional Prostate Volume.

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the correlation of serum total testosterone levels with International Pro...

Tadalafil Improves Symptoms, Erectile Function and Quality of Life in Patients with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Suggestive of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (KYU-PRO Study).

OBJECTIVES: Effect of tadalafil on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), erectile function and qualit...

The Use of Stepper Motor-Controlled Proportional Valve for Fio Calculation in the Ventilator and its Control with Fuzzy Logic.

This article proposes the employment of a proportional valve that can calculate the amount of oxygen...

Incidence of severe renal dysfunction among individuals taking warfarin and implications for non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants.

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study is to assess incidence and risk factors for severe renal dysfu...

SGFSC: speeding the gene functional similarity calculation based on hash tables.

BACKGROUND: In recent years, many measures of gene functional similarity have been proposed and wide...

Serum calcitriol levels in a patient with X-linked hypophosphatemia complicated by autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.

Serum calcitriol [1,25(OH)D] levels are low normal in the presence of hypophosphatemia in X-linked d...

Urogenital function in robotic vs laparoscopic rectal cancer surgery: a comparative study.

PURPOSE: Urological and sexual dysfunction are recognised risks of rectal cancer surgery; however, t...

Feasibility of Antegrade Contrast-enhanced US Nephrostograms to Evaluate Ureteral Patency.

Purpose To demonstrate the feasibility of contrast material-enhanced ulrasonographic (US) nephrostog...

Sentinel Lymph Node Dissection to Select Clinically Node-negative Prostate Cancer Patients for Pelvic Radiation Therapy: Effect on Biochemical Recurrence and Systemic Progression.

PURPOSE: To assess the efficacy of robotic-assisted laparoscopic sentinel lymph node (SLN) dissectio...

Long-term results of adjuvant versus early salvage postprostatectomy radiation: A large single-institutional experience.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate freedom from biochemical failure (FFBF), freedom ...

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.

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

Technique and outcomes of bladder neck intussusception during robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy: A parallel comparative trial.

INTRODUCTION: Postprostatectomy incontinence significantly impairs quality of life. Although bladder...

Accurate classification of brain gliomas by discriminate dictionary learning based on projective dictionary pair learning of proton magnetic resonance spectra.

Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a powerful noninvasive technique that complements the stru...

A Concept-Wide Association Study of Clinical Notes to Discover New Predictors of Kidney Failure.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Identifying predictors of kidney disease progression is critical toward t...

Re: Aquablation-Image-Guided Robot-Assisted Waterjet Ablation of the Prostate: Initial Clinical Experience.

Does size matter? Kidney transplant donor size determines kidney function among living donors.

BACKGROUND: Kidney donor outcomes are gaining attention, particularly as donor eligibility criteria ...

A LASSO Method to Identify Protein Signature Predicting Post-transplant Renal Graft Survival.

Identifying novel biomarkers to predict renal graft survival is important in post-transplant clinica...

Antithyroid drug-associated MPO-ANCA-positive tubulointerstitial nephritis in a type 2 diabetes patient: a case report.

A 54-year-old man diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and hyperthyroidism was prescribed propylthiouracil...