Urology

Pathophysiology of clinical benign prostatic hyperplasia.

A disease can be defined as an abnormal anatomy (pathology) and/or function (physiology) that may cause harm to the body. In clinical benign prostatic hyperplasis (BPH), the abnormal anatomy is prostate adenoma/adenomata, resulting in a varying degree of benign prostatic obstruction (BPO) that may cause harm to the bladder or kidneys. Thus clinical BPH can be defined as such and be differentiated ...

Patterns of Benign Prostate Hyperplasia Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging Are Correlated With Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms and Continence in Men Undergoing a Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) patterns, classified by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) or continence, preoperatively and after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RARP).

Background factors and short-term health-related quality of life in patients who initially underwent radical prostatectomy or androgen deprivation therapy for localized prostate cancer in a Japanese prospective observational study (J-CaP Innovative Study-1).

BACKGROUND: This prospective observational study elucidated the usefulness of hormonal therapy for localized prostate cancer. Background factors and t...

Complications of Endovascular Aneurysm Repair: Mortality, Myocardial Infarction and Acute Kidney Injury.

OBJECTIVE: Patients undergoing endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) have comorbidities that increase the risk of death, myocardial infarction (MI) and ...

Improving Teamwork: Evaluating Workload of Surgical Team During Robot-assisted Surgery.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the cognitive and physical workload experienced by each operating room team member for different types of urologic procedure...

A prospective randomized controlled trial for assessment of perineal hydrodissection technique for nervesparing robot assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: This study prospectively evaluated the safety and efficacy of perineal hydrodissection in robot assisted nervesparing prostatectomy.

Automatic Segmentation of Kidneys using Deep Learning for Total Kidney Volume Quantification in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease.

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is the most common inherited disorder of the kidneys. It is characterized by enlargement of the k...

Clinical implementation of a knowledge based planning tool for prostate VMAT.

BACKGROUND: A knowledge based planning tool has been developed and implemented for prostate VMAT radiotherapy plans providing a target average rectum ...

Label-free isolation of prostate circulating tumor cells using Vortex microfluidic technology.

There has been increased interest in utilizing non-invasive "liquid biopsies" to identify biomarkers for cancer prognosis and monitoring, and to isola...

Lipid associated antioxidants: arylesterase and paraoxonase-1 in benign prostatic hyperplasia treatment-naïve patients.

BACKGROUND: Oxidative stress and antioxidants have been implicated in many diseases including prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). ...

Sofosbuvir-based regimens for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C in severe renal dysfunction.

Sofosbuvir (SOF) is a nonstructural 5B polymerase inhibitor with activity in all hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotypes and is the backbone of many anti-HC...

Orthosiphon pallidus, a Potential Treatment for Patients with Breast Cancer.

OBJECTIVE: , which belongs to the family, is a popular garden plant that is widely used for the treatment of various diseases, such as urinary lithia...

Assigning clinical codes with data-driven concept representation on Dutch clinical free text.

Clinical codes are used for public reporting purposes, are fundamental to determining public financing for hospitals, and form the basis for reimburse...

Machine learning-based analysis of MR radiomics can help to improve the diagnostic performance of PI-RADS v2 in clinically relevant prostate cancer.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether machine learning-based analysis of MR radiomics can help improve the performance PI-RADS v2 in clinically relevant p...

Effect of Silibinin on Maspin and ERα Gene Expression in MCF-7 Human Breast Cancer Cell Line.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: According to reports, a serine protease inhibitor (Maspin) suppresses metastasis, invasion and angiogenesis in breast and pr...

Positive surgical margin in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: correlation with pathology findings and risk of biochemical recurrence.

BACKGROUND: To analyze the correlation of surgical margin status with other findings on final pathology and risk of biochemical recurrence (BCR) in pa...

Patients with small prostates and low-grade intravesical prostatic protrusion - A urodynamic evaluation.

OBJECTIVE: Despite high-grade intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) being closely related to bladder outlet obstruction (BOO), up to 21% of patients...

Bladder cancer cell viability inhibition and apoptosis induction by baicalein through targeting the expression of anti-apoptotic genes.

The study was aimed to investigate the effect of baicalein, a flavonoid molecule isolated from the plant on bladder cancer cell viability. The result...

Vector-model-supported approach in prostate plan optimization.

Lengthy time consumed in traditional manual plan optimization can limit the use of step-and-shoot intensity-modulated radiotherapy/volumetric-modulate...

Incidence and risk factors of inguinal hernia after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has now become a gold standard approach in radical prostatectomy. The aim of this study was to...