Urology

Incidence and outcomes of neonatal acute kidney injury (AWAKEN): a multicentre, multinational, observational cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Single-center studies suggest that neonatal acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with poor outcomes. However, inferences regarding the association between AKI, mortality, and hospital length of stay are limited due to the small sample size of those studies. In order to determine whether neonatal AKI is independently associated with increased mortality and longer hospital stay, we an...

Editorial Comment to Overactive bladder is a negative predictor of achieving continence after robot-assisted radical prostatectomy.

[Laparoscopic adenomectomy: Evolution of the technique and results.].

OBJECTIVE: Laparoscopic adenomectomy (LA) is an effective procedure for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which reproduces the surg...

Arterial stiffness and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels in chronic kidney disease patients.

OBJECTIVE: Arterial stiffness refers to arterial wall rigidity, particularly developing in central vessels. Arterial stiffness increases in early stag...

Transrectal ultrasound-guided biopsy for prostate cancer detection: Systematic and/or magnetic-resonance imaging-targeted.

INTRODUCTION: Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is being more widely used in the detection of prostate cancer (PCa), particularly after an initial nega...

Can Hyperpolarized C-Urea be Used to Assess Glomerular Filtration Rate? A Retrospective Study.

This study investigated a simple method for calculating the single-kidney glomerular filtration rate (GFR) using dynamic hyperpolarized C-urea magneti...

Performance of an Artificial Multi-observer Deep Neural Network for Fully Automated Segmentation of Polycystic Kidneys.

Deep learning techniques are being rapidly applied to medical imaging tasks-from organ and lesion segmentation to tissue and tumor classification. The...

Editorial Comment to Predictors of operative time during radical retropubic prostatectomy and robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy.

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[The rational application of Da Vinci surgical system in thyroidectomy].

Da Vinci surgical system is the most advanced minimally invasive surgical platform in the world, and this system has been widely used in cardiac surge...

Robotic Renal Autotransplantation: First Case Outside of North America.

A 38-year-old woman with a 2.7-cm left ureteral stenosis requiring chronic ureteral stent exchange elected to undergo robotic renal autotransplantatio...

Getting ready for the first robotic prostatectomy, from basics to real practice.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) has been embraced by urologists and has become a treatment standard in many countries a...

Design and characterization of low-cost fabric-based flat pneumatic actuators for soft assistive glove application.

We present the design of low-cost fabric-based Hat pneumatic actuators for soft assistive glove application. The soft assistive glove is designed to a...

[Downregulation of PTTG1 expression inhibits the proliferation and invasiveness and promotes the apoptosis of human prostate cancer LNCaP-AI cells].

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effects of down-regulation of PTTG1 expression on the proliferation, invasiveness and apoptosis of androgen-independent ...

Determination of coumarin in seasonal bakery products using QuEChERS and GC-MS.

Cinnamon is a traditional herbal drug, but more importantly, it is used as a flavor compound in the production of foodstuff. Due to the content of sig...

MICROTOX TEST AS A TOOL TO ASSESS ANTIMICROBIAL PROPERTIES OF HERBAL INFUSIONS USED IN URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS.

Herbs can be used preventatively, to aid treatment and to ease the symptoms of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Traditional medicine uses herbal infus...

THE EFFECT OF TOTAL AND PARTIAL NEPHRECTOMY ON THE PHARMACOKINETICS OF INTRAVENOUS PARACETAMOL IN HUMANS.

Paracetamol is one of the most common analgesic and antipyretic drugs. Recently intravenous paracetamol has been widely used to treat moderate postope...

Salvage Robotic-assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy: Experience with 14 Cases.

AIM: To report the outcomes of salvage robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (S-RaRP).

MRI-based prostate cancer detection with high-level representation and hierarchical classification.

PURPOSE: Extracting the high-level feature representation by using deep neural networks for detection of prostate cancer, and then based on high-level...

Automatic Gleason grading of prostate cancer using quantitative phase imaging and machine learning.

We present an approach for automatic diagnosis of tissue biopsies. Our methodology consists of a quantitative phase imaging tissue scanner and machine...