Urology

Pharmacokinetic Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Advagraf in More Than 500 Adult Renal Transplant Patients, Using an Expert System Online.

BACKGROUND: Immunosuppressant Bayesian dose adjustment (ISBA) is an online expert system, routinely used by approximately 140 transplantation centers in the world for the dose adjustment of immunosuppressive drugs in transplant patients. This system determines the area under the curve (AUC) of the drug by pharmacokinetic modeling and Bayesian estimation. The purpose of this study was to analyze ta...

Effect of intraoperative mannitol administration on acute kidney injury after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy: A propensity score matching analysis.

Mannitol, an osmotic diuretic, has been used to prevent acute kidney injury (AKI). However, studies have found divergent effects of intraoperative mannitol administration on postoperative AKI. We therefore evaluated the effects of intraoperative mannitol administration on AKI after robot-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (RALP) in prostate cancer patients.A total of 864 patients who unde...

Robotics in urology.

Twenty years after it was introduced, robotic surgery has become more commonplace in urology – we examine its current uses and controversies

Automated Detection of Clinically Significant Prostate Cancer in mp-MRI Images Based on an End-to-End Deep Neural Network.

Automated methods for detecting clinically significant (CS) prostate cancer (PCa) in multi-parameter magnetic resonance images (mp-MRI) are of high de...

[Application of support vector machine in predicting in-hospital mortality risk of patients with acute kidney injury in ICU].

OBJECTIVE: To construct an in-hospital mortality prediction model for patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) in intensive care unit (ICU) by using su...

Online Robust Projective Dictionary Learning: Shape Modeling for MR-TRUS Registration.

Robust and effective shape prior modeling from a set of training data remains a challenging task, since the shape variation is complicated, and shape ...

[Standard surgery for small renal masses (<4 cm)].

BACKGROUND: Several new treatment strategies have emerged in the treatment of small renal masses (<4 cm in diameter). Active surveillance and ablative...

A Neural-Network-Based Approach to Personalize Insulin Bolus Calculation Using Continuous Glucose Monitoring.

BACKGROUND: In type 1 diabetes (T1D) therapy, the calculation of the meal insulin bolus is performed according to a standard formula (SF) exploiting c...

Prostate cancer detection using machine learning techniques by employing combination of features extracting strategies.

Prostate is a second leading causes of cancer deaths among men. Early detection of cancer can effectively reduce the rate of mortality caused by Prost...

Robotics in MRI-Guided Interventions.

Robots have been found to be a useful tool in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided intervention. The utility of robots in MRI-guided therapy ranges...

AI Tackles Hospital Infections: Machine Learning Is Helping Clinicians.

For Ashley Zappia (Figure 1), getting her hands dirty was part of her job. Even though she always tried to remain as clean as possible, her work as a ...

How AI Is Optimizing the Detection and Management of Prostate Cancer.

Annually, approximately 20 million men are prostate-specific-antigen screened, and 1.3 million undergo an invasive biopsy to diagnose roughly 200,000 ...

Training in urological robotic surgery. Future perspectives.

As robotics are becoming more integrated into the medical field, robotic training is becoming more crucial in order to overcome the lack of experience...

Deep Learning Role in Early Diagnosis of Prostate Cancer.

The objective of this work is to develop a computer-aided diagnostic system for early diagnosis of prostate cancer. The presented system integrates bo...

Computing and Visualizing Gene Function Similarity and Coherence with NaviGO.

Gene ontology (GO) is a controlled vocabulary of gene functions across all species, which is widely used for functional analyses of individual genes a...

[The gender features of disorders of composition of lipids of blood serum in patients with chronic pathology of kidneys.].

The purpose of the study was to investigate gender features of abnormalities of blood serum lipid composition and their relationship with clinical and...

Prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in renal transplant recipients.

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the prevalence of latent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in renal transplant recipients and to assess sociodemograp...

Correlation of Parathyroid Hormone Levels with Mineral Status in End-stage Renal Disease Patients.

UNLABELLED: Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is the main regulator of calcium, phosphate, magnesium, sodium, and potassium homeostasis. Therefore, this study...

NUTRITIONAL OR ACTIVE VITAMIN D FOR THE CORRECTION OF MINERAL METABOLISM ABNORMALITIES IN NON-DIALYSIS CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE PATIENTS?

CONTEXT: Benefits of vitamin D therapies in chronic kidney disease (CKD) are debated.

[Changes of platelet rheological behavior and the interventional effects of ulinastatin in rats with high-voltage electrical burns].

To explore the influence of high-voltage electrical burns on the number of platelet aggregation, β-thromboglobulin (β-TG) and platelet factor 4 (PF-4...