BACKGROUND: Kidney involvement frequently occurs in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), and its clinical manifestations are complicated. We profiled kidney involvement in SLE patients using deep learning based on data from the National Database of De...
This study aims to assess the efficacy and safety of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in the management of complex renal tumors (defined as RENAL score ≥ 7). We conducted a comprehensive literatur...
Cancer radiotherapie : journal de la Societe francaise de radiotherapie oncologique
Feb 2, 2023
PURPOSE: Accurate segmentation of target volumes and organs at risk from computed tomography (CT) images is essential for treatment planning in radiation therapy. The segmentation task is often done manually making it time-consuming. Besides, it is b...
Recommended practices that follow match-run sequences for hard-to-place kidneys succumb to many declines, accruing cold ischemic time and exacerbating kidney quality that may lead to unnecessary kidney discard. Hard-to-place deceased donor kidneys ac...
Renal cell carcinoma is among major causes of death in patients with Von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) syndrome, and it usually presents with multiple and bilateral lesions that may require multiple renal surgeries. This, in turn, may compromise renal function...
Due to the increasing prevalence of chronic kidney disease and its high mortality rate, study of risk factors affecting the progression of the disease is of great importance. Here in this work, we aim to develop a framework for using machine learning...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
Dec 8, 2022
Multi-phase computed tomography (CT) is widely adopted for the diagnosis of kidney cancer due to the complementary information among phases. However, the complete set of multi-phase CT is often not available in practical clinical applications. In rec...
To evaluate the differences in baseline chronic kidney disease (CKD) status in correlations between warm ischemic time (WIT) and acute kidney injury (AKI) or acute/chronic renal function change after robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN). This ...
International journal of urology : official journal of the Japanese Urological Association
Nov 30, 2022
OBJECTIVES: To compare the postoperative outcomes of robot-assisted partial nephrectomy when only the inner layer is sutured (single-layer technique with soft coagulation) with those when sutures are placed in the inner and outer layers (double-layer...
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