Urology

Re: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Impact of the Retzius-Sparing Approach on Early Urinary Continence Recovery after Robot-Assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

A method of gene expression data transfer from cell lines to cancer patients for machine-learning prediction of drug efficiency.

Personalized medicine implies that distinct treatment methods are prescribed to individual patients according several features that may be obtained from, e.g., gene expression profile. The majority of machine learning methods suffer from the deficiency of preceding cases, i.e. the gene expression data on patients combined with the confirmed outcome of known treatment methods. At the same time, the...

Cockcroft-Gault, Modification of Diet in Renal Disease, and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equations for estimating glomerular filtration rates in cancer patients receiving cisplatin-based chemotherapy.

BACKGROUND: Although the Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (CKD-EPI) equation has been recommended for accurate estimates of glomerula...

Physician perceptions of blood pressure control in patients with chronic kidney disease and target blood pressure achievement rate.

BACKGROUND: Blood pressure (BP) control is the most-established method for the prevention of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression. However, the id...

Risk and Management of Postoperative Urinary Retention Following Spinal Surgery.

PURPOSE: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a common complication after spinal surgery. However, no clear definition of POUR currently exists, ...

25-hydroxyvitamin D Levels was not Associated with Blood Pressure and Arterial Stiffness in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

BACKGROUND: We investigated the effect of vitamin D deficiency on cardiovascular risk profiles in an Asian population with chronic kidney disease (CKD...

Changes in glomerular filtration rate and outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation.

BACKGROUND: Patients with kidney disease are more likely to develop atrial fibrillation (AF) than individuals with normal renal function, and more lik...

Clinical Significance of Urinary Biomarkers in Patients With Primary Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis.

BACKGROUND: Focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) is often accompanied with tubulointerstitial lesion. This study aimed to assess the role of urin...

Effect of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor/Calcium Antagonist Combination Therapy on Renal Function in Hypertensive Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: Chikushi Anti-Hypertension Trial - Benidipine and Perindopril.

BACKGROUND: Appropriate blood pressure control suppresses progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD). If an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhib...

A comparison of normal and high post-void residual urine and urodynamic parameters in women with overactive bladder.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate voiding functions and assess the relationships of voiding parameters to overactive bladder symptoms and postvoiding residue ...

Analogous detection of circulating tumor cells using the AccuCyte -CyteFinder system and ISET system in patients with locally advanced and metastatic prostate cancer.

INTRODUCTION: Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) can provide important information on patient's prognosis and treatment efficacy. Currently, a plethora of...

Characteristics and clinical outcomes of living renal donors in Hong Kong.

INTRODUCTION: In Asia, few reports are available on the outcomes for living renal donors. We report the short- and long-term clinical outcomes of indi...

Predictive factors of spontaneous CMV DNAemia clearance in kidney transplantation.

UNLABELLED: Cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection occurs frequently after solid organ transplantation. Therapeutic strategies, in particular when to start a...

Outcomes and toxicity from a prospective study of moderately hypofractionated radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to report the long-term outcomes and toxicity results of a prospective trial of moderately hypofractionated, ima...

2-methyl butyramide, a previously identified urine biomarker for Ascaris lumbricoides, is not present in infected Indonesian individuals.

UNLABELLED: ᅟ: Previous reports suggest that the 2-methyl butyramide and 2-methyl valeramide metabolites of Ascaris lumbricoides in urine of infected ...

Baseline total kidney volume and the rate of kidney growth are associated with chronic kidney disease progression in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by progressive enlargement of kidney cysts leading to chronic kidney disease (CK...

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks Enable Discrimination of Heterogeneous Digital Pathology Images.

Pathological evaluation of tumor tissue is pivotal for diagnosis in cancer patients and automated image analysis approaches have great potential to in...

Eculizumab for Thrombotic Microangiopathy Associated with Antibody-Mediated Rejection after ABO-Incompatible Kidney Transplantation.

Thrombotic microangiopathy is a form of antibody-mediated rejection (ABMR): it is the main complication of ABO-incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplantat...

Convective radiofrequency water vapor thermal therapy for benign prostatic hyperplasia: a single office experience.

BACKGROUND: Convective radiofrequency water vapor thermal therapy with the Rezūm system is a relatively new treatment for benign prostatic hyperplasia...

Rotational paper-based electrochemiluminescence immunodevices for sensitive and multiplexed detection of cancer biomarkers.

This paper describes a novel rotational paper-based analytical device (RPAD) to implement multi-step electrochemiluminescence (ECL) immunoassays. The ...