The role of mycophenolate mofetil in clinical renal transplantation.

abstract：PURPOSE:We aimed to investigate the association between nocturia and serum metabolites identified using metabolomics analysis. METHODS:This study enrolled 66 men aged 65-80 years, recruited from the outpatient department of a university hospital. The participants were stratified as follows: Nocturia group [45 men with...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Kira S,Mitsui T,Miyamoto T,Ihara T,Nakagomi H,Hashimoto Y,Takamatsu H,Tanahashi M,Takeda M,Sawada N,Andersson KE,Takeda M

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) remains the treatment of choice for staghorn renal calculi. Many reports suggest that laparoscopy can be an alternative treatment for large renal stones. We wished to evaluate the role and feasibility of laparoscopic extended pyelolithotomy (REP) for treatment of staghorn calculi. T...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Badani KK,Hemal AK,Fumo M,Kaul S,Shrivastava A,Rajendram AK,Yusoff NA,Sundram M,Woo S,Peabody JO,Mohamed SR,Menon M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate the impact of lower-energy transurethral microwave thermotherapy (TUMT) on quality of life (QoL) and quality of sexual function (QSF) in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). A total of 216 patients with BPH received lower-energy TUMT treatment (Prostasoft 2.0) and were ...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Francisca E,Blute M,de la Rosette J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxybutynin is a tertiary amine, which undergoes an extensive first-pass metabolism. It has an active metabolite, N-desethyl oxybutynin, and the effect of oral oxybutynin is to a large extent exerted by this metabolite. Oxybutynin has both an antimuscarinic and a direct muscle relaxant effect, and, in addition, local a...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Andersson KE,Chapple CR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play an important role as regulators of gene expression in tumourigenesis by controlling many biological processes in growth, development, differentiation and apoptosis. Previous studies have shown an altered expression of specific miRNAs in clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). But the fu...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Heinzelmann J,Henning B,Sanjmyatav J,Posorski N,Steiner T,Wunderlich H,Gajda MR,Junker K

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To investigate whether differences in the anatomy and dynamics of the pelvic floor (PF) in patients after radical prostatectomy (RP) depicted on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are associated with continence status. METHODS:In the prospective designed study, 24 patients with post-prostatectomy stress urinary ...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Soljanik I,Bauer RM,Becker AJ,Stief CG,Gozzi C,Solyanik O,Brocker KA,Kirchhoff SM

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nephrolithiasis is a highly prevalent disease worldwide with rates ranging from 7 to 13% in North America, 5-9% in Europe, and 1-5% in Asia. Due to high rates of new and recurrent stones, management of stones is expensive and the disease has a high level of acute and chronic morbidity. The goal of this study is to rev...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Sorokin I,Mamoulakis C,Miyazawa K,Rodgers A,Talati J,Lotan Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The purpose of the study is to introduce our experience of a modified single-port minilaparoscopic technique for the treatment of pediatric hydrocele. METHODS:Between June 2008 and May 2012, 279 boys (115 communicating hydrocele and 164 "non-communicating" hydrocele, diagnosis based on preoperative physical ex...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Wang Z,Xu L,Chen Z,Yao C,Su Z

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate whether elderly patients aged ≥ 75 years with locally advanced prostate cancer (LAPC) may benefit from local treatment (LT). METHODS:Elderly patients aged ≥ 75 years with non-metastatic cT3-4 LAPC who were treated with LT [radical prostatectomy (RP), radiation therapy (RT)] or non-LT (NLT) were i...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Sheng W,Kirschner-Hermanns R,Zhang H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The mechanisms responsible for the pathogenesis of long-term renal damage induced by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) are not clear. The present study was designed to investigate the role of nuclear factor κB (NFκB) signal pathway in the pathogenesis of chronic shock wave-induced renal damage in rat...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Li X,Xue Y,He D,Chen X,Zhang L

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to describe the current ultrasound (US) contrast agents employed in the characterization of renal tumors and to report our experience in the use of a contrast-specific ultrasound technique pulse inversion harmonic imaging (PIHI).A total of 23 renal masses were prospectively evaluated by conv...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Siracusano S,Quaia E,Bertolotto M,Ciciliato S,Tiberio A,Belgrano E

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models are at the centre of laboratory bladder cancer (BC) research and at the same time, the bridge to the clinic. A new and very promising therapeutical approach is to silence abnormally up-regulated genes in cancer, through small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules. Therapeutic use and success of siRNAs will l...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Reis LO,Pereira TC,Favaro WJ,Cagnon VH,Lopes-Cendes I,Ferreira U

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:We hypothesized that a relevant number of patients with clinically high-risk prostate cancer (PCA) indeed harbor overall favorable tumor characteristics (OFTC) (i.e., pT2a-c and Gleason score ≤3 + 4 = 7 and pN0/X) and that in these patients radical prostatectomy (RP) alone is most likely curative. METHODS:Betw...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Musch M,Pluemer J,Roggenbuck U,Klevecka V,Kroepfl D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Orchialgia after laproscopic renal surgery has been rarely reported in literature, and gonadal vein ligation is considered the main etiology. Our objective was to study the incidence, intensity and to find out any specific factors that could lead to orchialgia. MATERIALS AND METHODS:All patients planned for la...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Srivastava A,Kapoor R,Srivastava A,Ansari MS,Singh M,Kapoor R

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU) is conventionally treated with oral antibiotics. With this Phase II study, we investigated the action of a locally disinfecting substance, Instillagel, in symptomatic NGU. Instillation treatment was performed twice daily to 32 male patients with symptomatic NGU. To evaluate the therapeu...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Sperling H,Bastian HP,Boeminghau F,Ludwig G,Terhorst B,Rübben H

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the long-term patient-reported outcomes following TO-TVT as a secondary continence procedure in women with recurrent stress urinary incontinence (R-SUI). METHODS:A secondary analysis of the 9-year follow-up of the E-TOT study was performed: 341 women with predominant SUI symptoms were randomised to u...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Abdel-Fattah M,Cao G,Mostafa A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate pathological and oncological outcomes of obese patients who underwent robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) compared with laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) or open retropubic radical prostatectomy (RRP) since limited comparative data exist with regard to oncological and survival o...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Busch J,Gonzalgo ML,Leva N,Ferrari M,Cash H,Kempkensteffen C,Hinz S,Miller K,Magheli A

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide most recent and high quality evidence concerning the comparison between monopolar and bipolar transurethral resection of non-muscle invasive bladder tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Two researchers performed a systematic review of the current literature independently, to identify studies published in...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Tzelves L,Mourmouris P,Skolarikos A

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To describe results of a simplified technique to configure the vesicourethral anastomosis and to restore posterior musculofascial plate during laparoscopic radical prostatectomy with a "single knot-single running" suture. METHODS:Between December 2006 and 2009, a conventional Van Velthoven anastomosis (group A...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Simone G,Papalia R,Ferriero M,Guaglianone S,Gallucci M

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To evaluate the clinical significance of invasive urothelial carcinoma that is ambiguous for muscularis propria invasion on initial transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT). METHODS:All consecutive in-house TURBTs with invasive urothelial carcinoma from 1999 to 2017 that underwent radical cystectomy (R...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Hassan O,Murati Amador B,Lombardo KA,Salles D,Cuello F,Marwaha AS,Daniels MJ,Kates M,Bivalacqua TJ,Matoso A

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand alterations to the urokinase system that may occur in progressively metastatic prostate cancer cells, we assessed urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) expression, in vitro motility towards vitronectin, urokinase plasminogen activator (uPA)-induced growth and growth factor regulation of uPAR ex...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Forbes K,Gillette K,Kelley LA,Sehgal I

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To assess the effects of warm ischaemia time (WIT) on renal function after laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) for renal masses in patients with a normal contralateral kidney. METHODS:From October 2006 to December 2008, 53 patients treated with LPN were enrolled in this prospective study. Effective renal pl...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Porpiglia F,Fiori C,Bertolo R,Angusti T,Piccoli GB,Podio V,Russo R

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The introduction of robotic surgical technology into urological reconstruction, particularly pediatrics, has introduced new horizons for reducing the morbidity and enhancing the efficacy of surgical repair of congenital conditions in children. In reviewing the evolution of pediatric urological applications of r...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Satyanarayan A,Peters CA

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Systemic inflammatory response (SIR) plays important roles in initiation, promotion and progression of tumor. However, the prognostic role of preoperative circulating neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) (known as a marker of SIR) in human primary bladder cancer (BC) undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) remains c...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Hu G,Xu F,Zhong K,Wang S,Xu Q,Huang L,Cheng P

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:For the treatment of persistent post-prostatectomy incontinence (PPI), several surgical treatment options including male slings are available. In 2010, the second generation of the retrourethral male sling Advance, AdVanceXP, was introduced. Aim of the study was to examine in a prospective multicentre study the...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Bauer RM,Gozzi C,Klehr B,Kretschmer A,Grabbert M,Rehder P,May F,Stief CG,Gebhartl P,Homberg R

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Bladder cancer (BC) has the highest lifetime treatment costs per patient of all cancers. The high recurrence rate and ongoing invasive monitoring requirement are the key contributors to the economic and human toll of this disease. The purpose of this paper was to utilize the recent literature to identify oppo...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Sievert KD,Amend B,Nagele U,Schilling D,Bedke J,Horstmann M,Hennenlotter J,Kruck S,Stenzl A

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To provide appropriate evidence for treatment planning of patients with an impacted proximal ureteral stones ≥1.5 cm in size, by analyzing the therapeutic outcomes for those undergoing minimally invasive percutaneous antegrade ureterolithotripsy and retrograde ureterolithotripsy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:From Se...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Gu XJ,Lu JL,Xu Y

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Our objective was to determine the impact of preoperative frailty, as measured by validated Risk Analysis Index (RAI), on the occurrence of postoperative complications after urologic surgeries in a national database comprised of diverse practice groups and cases. STUDY DESIGN:The National Surgical Quality Impr...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Isharwal S,Johanning JM,Dwyer JG,Schimid KK,LaGrange CA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bladder development, undifferentiated mesenchymal and epithelial cells undergo an orderly sequence of differentiation defined by the expression of smooth-muscle (alpha-actin, myosin, vinculin, desmin, vimentin, and laminin) and epithelial (cytokeratins 5, 7, 8, 14, 18 and 19) protein markers. This process requi...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Baskin LS,Hayward SW,Sutherland RA,DiSandro MJ,Thomson AA,Goodman J,Cunha GR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Donor and recipient gender influence on post-transplant kidney and patient survival is still controversial, and the literature data do not present unanimous conclusions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of gender disparities between donor and recipient in 963 kidney transplants performed at our ...

journal_title：World journal of urology

authors： Vavallo A,Lucarelli G,Spilotros M,Bettocchi C,Palazzo S,Selvaggi FP,Battaglia M,Ditonno P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00