Urology

Spectrum-based and color-selective electrochemiluminescence immunoassay for determining human prostate specific antigen in near-infrared region.

The conventional electrochemiluminescence (ECL) analyses were performed via detecting the time (or potential) dependent ECL intensity with the proceeding of ECL reaction. Herein, by spectrally recording all the photons generated in ECL process, a spectral ECL immunoassay was developed in near-infrared (NIR) region with human prostate specific antigen (PSA) as target and dual-stabilizers-capped CdT...

Risk Factors for Urinary Retention Following Surgical Repair of Hip Fracture in Female Patients.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Postoperative urinary retention (POUR) is a common event following surgical procedures. An increase in the number of elderly individuals who undergo hip fracture repair procedures is inevitable due to the aging of population. Postoperative urinary retention is associated with both early (infections, delirium) and late complications (urinary incontinence) of surgery. The obje...

Carotid Intima-Media Thickness and Visit-to-Visit HbA1c Variability Predict Progression of Chronic Kidney Disease in Type 2 Diabetic Patients with Preserved Kidney Function.

. Subclinical atherosclerosis and long-term glycemic variability have been reported to predict incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) in the general po...

The Variability of Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Decline in Alport Syndrome.

BACKGROUND: A progressive trajectory toward renal failure is common in patients with Alport syndrome. Genotype-phenotype correlations have been well d...

Radiomic features for prostate cancer detection on MRI differ between the transition and peripheral zones: Preliminary findings from a multi-institutional study.

PURPOSE: To evaluate in a multi-institutional study whether radiomic features useful for prostate cancer (PCa) detection from 3 Tesla (T) multi-parame...

Serum Endocan Levels Associated with Hypertension and Loss of Renal Function in Pediatric Patients after Two Years from Renal Transplant.

Endocan is an important biomarker of inflammation and endothelial dysfunction that increases in association with several chronic diseases. Few publish...

Prescription of Guideline-Recommended Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Among Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure and Varying Degrees of Renal Function.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICD) and cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) reduce mortality in many patients with heart failure (HF), b...

Correlation of Serum Cystatin C with Glomerular Filtration Rate in Patients Receiving Platinum-Based Chemotherapy.

. Serum cystatin C seems to be an accurate marker of glomerular filtration rate (GFR) compared to serum creatinine. The aim of this work was to explor...

Prospective Study to Assess Progression of Renal Markers after Interruption of Tenofovir due to Nephrotoxicity.

. Prospective studies about the reversibility of tenofovir disoproxil fumarate- (TDF-) related renal impairment remain scarce. . This is an observatio...

Long non-coding RNA LOC283070 mediates the transition of LNCaP cells into androgen-independent cells possibly via CAMK1D.

AIMS: The present study is to investigate the role of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in the development of androgen independence in prostate cancer an...

Chronic Kidney Disease Is an Independent Risk Factor for Transfusion, Cardiovascular Complication, and Thirty-Day Readmission in Minimally Invasive Total Knee Arthroplasty.

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the relationship between chronic kidney disease (CKD) and minimally invasive total knee arthroplasty (MIS-TKA). We h...

Re: Hussein et al.: Development and Validation of a Quality Assurance Score for Robot-assisted Radical Cystectomy: A 10-Year Analysis (Urology 2016;97:124-129).

Quantitative analysis of menthol in human urine using solid phase microextraction and stable isotope dilution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry.

To accurately measure menthol levels in human urine, we developed a method using gas chromatography/electron ionization mass spectrometry with menthol...

Long-Term Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Outcomes of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in the Era of Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents.

BACKGROUND: The following registry (Katowice-Zabrze retrospective registry) aimed to assess the influence of a chronic kidney disease (CKD) on long-te...

Semiautomated Support Photoelectrochemical Immunosensing Platform for Portable and High-Throughput Immunoassay Based on Au Nanocrystal Decorated Specific Crystal Facets BiVO Photoanode.

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) measurement has been developed rapidly for bioanalysis in recent years. However, the actual application for most existed PE...

Automatic prediction of tumour malignancy in breast cancer with fractal dimension.

Breast cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer today in women. The main avenue of diagnosis is through manual examination of histopatholog...

A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effects of Febuxostat Therapy on Adipokines and Markers of Kidney Fibrosis in Asymptomatic Hyperuricemic Patients With Diabetic Nephropathy.

BACKGROUND: In observational studies, higher uric acid levels are associated with metabolic syndrome, diabetes, and kidney disease.

Ileostomy creation in colorectal cancer surgery: risk of acute kidney injury and chronic kidney disease.

BACKGROUND: Ileostomy creation is associated with postoperative dehydration and readmission; however, the effect on renal function is unknown. Our goa...

Comparison of Data from a Single-Analyte and a Multianalyte Method for Determination of Urinary Total Deoxynivalenol in Human Samples.

Deoxynivalenol (DON) exposure is estimated by the combined measures of urinary DON and DON-glucuronides. In this study, data from single-mycotoxin (SM...

Evaluation of a Machine-Learning Algorithm for Treatment Planning in Prostate Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy.

PURPOSE: This work presents the application of a machine learning (ML) algorithm to automatically generate high-quality, prostate low-dose-rate (LDR) ...