Changes in body composition, muscle function and energy expenditure after radical cystectomy.

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the association between renal tumour complexity and outcomes in a large cohort of patients undergoing percutaneous cryoablation (PCA). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients with renal tumours treated with PCA were identified using our prospectively maintained ablation registry (2003-2015). Salvage proced...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Bhindi B,Thompson RH,Mason RJ,Haddad MM,Geske JR,Kurup AN,Hannon JD,Boorjian SA,Leibovich BC,Atwell TD,Schmit GD

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the long-term outcome of forearm free-flap phalloplasty in transsexuals, as obtaining a satisfying neophallus in female-to-male transsexuals is a surgical challenge. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We analysed retrospectively 56 transsexuals who had a phalloplasty using a radial forearm free-flap in our depar...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Leriche A,Timsit MO,Morel-Journel N,Bouillot A,Dembele D,Ruffion A

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? The suppressor effect of probiotics on superficial bladder cancer is an observed phenomenon but the specific mechanism is poorly understood. The evidence strongly suggests natural killer (NK) cells are the anti-tumour effector cells involved and NK cell activit...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Feyisetan O,Tracey C,Hellawell GO

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the spontaneous regeneration, over a long period, of the seriously injured sympathetic pathway controlling the prostate. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The hypogastric nerve (HGN), which is part of the sympathetic pathway from the spinal cord to the prostate, was partly removed over half of its length on ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kobayashi T,Kihara K,Hyochi N,Masuda H,Sato K

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the urinary cytological changes caused by flexible cystoscopy and provide clinical guidelines for a reliable time interval for urinary cytological examination after flexible cystoscopy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Forty-eight patients attending for flexible cystoscopy were recruited into the study. Each ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： McVey RJ,Persad RV,Brown SC,Robinson E,Payne SR

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of vardenafil in patients previously unresponsive to sildenafil. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A multicentre, double-blind, 12-week, flexible-dose, placebo-controlled trial was conducted, involving 463 men aged > or = 18 years with moderate-to-severe erectile dysfunction (ED) and who were unr...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Carson CC,Hatzichristou DG,Carrier S,Lording D,Lyngdorf P,Aliotta P,Auerbach S,Murdock M,Wilkins HJ,McBride TA,Colopy MW,Patient Response with Vardenafil in Slidenafil Non-Responders (PROVEN) Study Group.

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To report the use of a novel donor source as a further option to increase the number of patients who might be able to receive a renal transplant. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Between May 1996 and July 2007, 43 kidneys were transplanted using kidneys obtained from patients with small (<3 cm diameter) incidentally det...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Nicol DL,Preston JM,Wall DR,Griffin AD,Campbell SB,Isbel NM,Hawley CM,Johnson DW

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the accuracy of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based Likert scoring system in the detection of clinically significant prostate cancer (CSPC), using MRI/ultrasonography (US) image-fusion targeted biopsy (FTB) as a reference standard. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed 1218 MRI-de...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Shin T,Smyth TB,Ukimura O,Ahmadi N,de Castro Abreu AL,Ohe C,Oishi M,Mimata H,Gill IS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the impact of histotripsy treatment parameters (pulse number and pulse-repetition frequency [PRF]) on the efficiency of histotripsy induced homogenisation of the prostatic urethra. MATERIALS AND METHODS:In all, 34 transabdominal prostate histotripsy treatments were applied along a perpendicular pla...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Schade GR,Styn NR,Ives KA,Hall TL,Roberts WW

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the neurophysiological and vascular factors in diabetic impotence, particularly the role of autonomic neuropathy on venous leakage and erectile impotence. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Thirty-four diabetic men with impotence were investigated using various neurophysiological and radiological methods. The...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Colakoglu Z,Kutluay E,Ertekin C,Altay B,Killi R,Alkis A

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To interrogate enriched prostate cancer cells and autologous non-malignant prostate epithelial cells from men with localized prostate cancer, in order to identify early oncogenic pathways. PATIENTS AND METHODS:We collected malignant and matched non-malignant prostatectomy samples from men with adenocarcinoma...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Sluka P,Pezaro C,Wardan H,Sengupta S,Davis ID

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the pharmacological effects of ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde on isolated rat bladder muscle, and thus assess the potential influence of ethanol ingestion on the risk of urinary retention in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Isometric tension changes of...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Kim HJ,Moon H,Sohng I,Lee HW,Lee G,Lee JG

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the optimal contractile response of isolated ureters to inflammatory mediators and neurotransmitters by evaluating four common methods of ureteric suspension. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ureters from adult domestic swine were placed immediately in Krebs buffer and cut into 4-5 mm segments. Four method...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Jerde TJ,Saban R,Nakada SY

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:What's known on the subject? and What does the study add? In the 1980s and 1990s, a method for direct measurement of pressure and cross-sectional area in women and men was developed. It was successful in terms of obtaining meaningful results in several studies. But the technique, which was based on the field...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Aagaard M,Klarskov N,Sønksen J,Bagi P,Colstrup H,Lose G

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the potential of p21 as a gene therapy treatment for prostate cancer, by introducing p21 into both androgen-dependent (AD) and -independent (AI) human prostate cancer cell lines via a recombinant adenoviral vector, Ad5CMV-p21, carrying human p21 cDNA. MATERIALS AND METHODS:The LNCaP, DU145 and PC-3...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Gotoh A,Shirakawa T,Wada Y,Fujisawa M,Okada H,Kamidono S,Hamada K

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the natural history of a group of patients who underwent contact laser prostatectomy or transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP). PATIENTS AND METHODS:Patients were followed up at 5 years after enrolling in a prospective double-blind randomized controlled trial of TURP vs contact laser pros...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Keoghane SR,Sullivan ME,Doll HA,Kourambas J,Cranston DW

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To identify the rate of postoperative complications in patients who require surgical reconstruction for ketamine-induced urinary tract dysfunction and to identify any predictors for poor postoperative outcome with subsequent management strategies. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A retrospective review of data collecte...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Sihra N,Ockrim J,Wood D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the outcomes of complete surgical resection of T4 prostate cancer after inductive androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT), as inductive ADT and subsequent radical prostatectomy (RP) is not recommended by any guideline yet. PATIENTS AND METHODS:A monocentric RP database was queried for patients initi...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Hajili T,Ohlmann CH,Linxweiler J,Niklas C,Janssen M,Siemer S,Stoeckle M,Saar M

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erectile dysfunction is common in the ageing man and reliable therapies are needed. The pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction in this group mainly includes chronic ischaemia, which triggers the deterioration of cavernosal smooth muscle and the development of corporeal fibrosis. Assessing the ageing man with erectile...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Montorsi F,Briganti A,Salonia A,Deho' F,Zanni G,Cestari A,Guazzoni G,Rigatti P,Stief C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the changing distribution of stage in seminoma and nonseminomatous germ cell tumours (NSGCTs), as recent reports contained no detailed information on pT stage and vascular invasion, important factors in the decision for further treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Histopathological reports from 1976 to ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Lackner JE,Koller A,Mazal PR,Waldert M,Waldhoer T,Marberger M,Kratzik C

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To investigate the effects of castration on the expression of endothelins (ETs), ET receptors and ET converting enzyme-1 (ECE-1) in the rat seminal vesicle (RSV). MATERIALS AND METHODS:Sprague-Dawley rats (3 months old) were surgically castrated or sham-operated, and then killed 7 days after surgery. Biochem...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Takahashi W,Yono M,Wada Y,Ikeda K,Weiss RM,Latifpour J

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:• To examine how the introduction of medical therapy for symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) might have changed the indications, patient characteristics and outcomes in men undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) over two decades (1988-2008). PATIENTS AND METHODS:• All patients w...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Izard J,Nickel JC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To compare in vivo the potency and bladder-vascular selectivity of ATP-sensitive potassium channel openers (KCOs) (-)-cromakalim, WAY-133537 and ZD6169 and a muscarinic antagonist, tolterodine in rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Bladder and arterial pressures were monitored simultaneously, before and after increa...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Fabiyi AC,Gopalakrishnan M,Lynch JJ 3rd,Brioni JD,Coghlan MJ,Brune ME

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To characterize serial long-term histological changes in mesenchymal cells infiltrating a collagen-based matrix, as in a hollow organ with differentiated urothelial lining created intraperitoneally by grafting cultured urothelial cells, mesenchymal cells with smooth-muscle immunohistochemical characteristics ...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Moriya K,Kakizaki H,Watanabe S,Sano H,Nonomura K

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To analyse tumour extent as a predictor of cancer progression after radical prostatectomy (RP), using a multivariate Cox regression model, as several variables (e.g. Gleason grade and tumour stage) are well-established prognostic factors in prostate cancer but it is uncertain if the visual estimation of tumou...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Jones TD,Koch MO,Lin H,Cheng L

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine whether gene profiles can provide a molecular evaluation of the quality and therapeutic potential in patients with myelomeningocele (MM), by comparing genetic profiles of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) from healthy bladders and bladders from patients, to identify genes that are over- and under-expresse...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Hipp JA,Hipp JD,Yoo JJ,Atala A,Andersson KE

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To study the patterns of care of penile cancer diagnosed in the state of New South Wales (NSW) over a 10 year period and determine factors that are associated with differences in survival. PATIENTS AND METHODS:All invasive penile cancer diagnosed between 2001 and 2009 in NSW, Australia, were identified from...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Patel MI,Yuminaga Y,Bang A,Lawrentschuk N,Skyring T,Smith DP

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess in detail and evaluate the effect on survival of delays in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer (which might lead to a worse prognosis), dividing the delay from onset of symptoms to first treatment into several components, comprising patient delay, general practitioner (GP) delay, and two or more p...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Wallace DM,Bryan RT,Dunn JA,Begum G,Bathers S,West Midlands Urological Research Group.

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with metastatic bone disease often have severe bone pain and debilitating skeletal complications. Zoledronic acid is the only bisphosphonate shown to be safe and effective in reducing skeletal-related events (SREs), including pathological fractures, spinal cord compression, and radiation or surgery to bone in...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Saad F,Lipton A

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To use the Fragility Index to evaluate the robustness of statistically significant findings from urological randomised controlled trials (RCTs). MATERIALS AND METHODS:The 'Fragility Index' is defined as the minimum number of patients in one arm of a trial whose status would have to change from 'event' to 'n...

journal_title：BJU international

authors： Narayan VM,Gandhi S,Chrouser K,Evaniew N,Dahm P

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00