Urology

A Multi-institution Study on the Association of Virtual Reality Skills with Continence Recovery after Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Virtual reality (VR) simulators are increasingly being used for surgical skills training...

OSCA-finder: Redefining the assay of kidney disease diagnostic through metabolomics and deep learning.

Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a platform for urine and blood sample analysis. H...

Nerve-sparing robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with the HUGO™ robot-assisted surgery system using the 'Aalst technique'.

Clinical Outcomes of Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection Before Versus After Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Cystectomy.

The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical outcomes of bladder cancer patients treated w...

Technical Aspects and Clinical Outcomes of Robotic Ureteroscopy: Is It Ready for Primetime?

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Robotic surgery in urology has already been widely employed in robotic-assisted l...

Cost-Effectiveness of Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy vs Open Radical Cystectomy for Patients With Bladder Cancer.

IMPORTANCE: The value to payers of robot-assisted radical cystectomy with intracorporeal urinary div...

Cephalic inferior vena cava non-clamping technique versus standard procedure for robot-assisted laparoscopic level II-III thrombectomy: a prospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Renal tumour can invade the venous system and ~4-10% patients with renal tumour had veno...

Efficacy of Laparoscopic Iliopubic Tract Repair Plus Transabdominal Preperitoneal Hernioplasty for Treating Inguinal Hernia After Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy.

BACKGROUND: Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) is a risk factor for inguinal hernia (IH). F...

Single-port vs multi-port robot-assisted renal surgery: analysis of perioperative outcomes for excision of high and low complexity renal masses.

There is emerging but limited data assessing single-port (SP) robot-assisted surgery as an alternati...

Assessing the Trade-off Between the Safety and Effectiveness of Off-clamp Robotic Partial Nephrectomy for Renal Masses with a High RENAL Score: A Propensity Score-matched Comparison of Perioperative and Functional Outcomes in a Multicenter Analysis.

BACKGROUND: Tumors with a high nephrometry score represent a challenging surgical scenario for which...

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy following holmium laser enucleation of the prostate: perioperative, functional, and oncological outcomes.

Robot-assisted radical prostatectomy with previous holmium laser enucleation of the prostate is chal...

The application of artificial intelligence to accelerate G protein-coupled receptor drug discovery.

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to drug discovery for G protein-coupled r...

Trends and perspectives for improving quality of chronic kidney disease care: conclusions from a Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) Controversies Conference.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects over 850 million people globally, and the need to prevent its d...

Contour-guided deep learning based deformable image registration for dose monitoring during CBCT-guided radiotherapy of prostate cancer.

PURPOSE: To evaluate deep learning (DL)-based deformable image registration (DIR) for dose accumulat...

Robot-assisted adrenalectomy using a hinotori surgical robot system: Report of first series of six cases.

AIM: The hinotori surgical robot system, a newly launched platform, has already been utilized in sev...

Fastcalculation in LDR brachytherapy using deep learning methods.

The Monte Carlo (MC) method provides a complete solution to the tissue heterogeneity effects in low-...

Totally Intracorporeal Robot-assisted Unilateral or Bilateral Ileal Ureter Replacement for the Treatment of Ureteral Strictures: Technique and Outcomes from a Single Center.

BACKGROUND: Few studies on totally intracorporeal robot-assisted ileal ureter replacement (RA-IUR) h...

Effects of remote ischemic preconditioning on renal protection in patients undergoing robot-assisted laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

We aimed to evaluate the renoprotective effects of remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) in patient...

Development, multi-institutional external validation, and algorithmic audit of an artificial intelligence-based Side-specific Extra-Prostatic Extension Risk Assessment tool (SEPERA) for patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: a retrospective cohort study.

BACKGROUND: Accurate prediction of side-specific extraprostatic extension (ssEPE) is essential for p...

Identifying acute kidney injury subphenotypes using an outcome-driven deep-learning approach.

OBJECTIVE: Acute kidney injury (AKI), a common condition on the intensive-care unit (ICU), is charac...

Rapid and precise detection of cancers via label-free SERS and deep learning.

Early, express, and reliable detection of cancer can provide a favorable prognosis and decrease mort...