(UroToday.com) This was a prospective cross-sectional study of individuals with neurogenic bladder who performed intermittent catheterization (CIC, n=51) or utilized an indwelling catheter (n=16) that aimed to characterize the microbiota and to evaluate differences based on the type of bladder management or frequency of symptomatic urinary tract infections (UTI).
(UroToday.com) The primary objective of this study was to investigate the disparity of pelvic and genitourinary (GU) exams between male and female patients who present with lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), urinary tract infection (UTI), and other urological conditions as well as, assess for predictors of undergoing pelvic examination. This was a retrospective chart review performed […]
(UroToday.com) The aim of this retrospective chart review was to determine if there were differences in cystoscopic findings between genders. All hospital visits of men and women at the Veteran Health Affairs Hospital System between October 2004 – July 2016 were analyzed.
(UroToday.com) The aim of this study is to present a case series of patients who underwent diagnosis and subsequent surgical management of urethral diverticulum (UD). A retrospective study of a prospective database of our urogynecology unit between 2016-2019 identified sixteen patients.
We investigated the prognostic utility of pre-chemotherapy neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) in patients with metastatic germ cell tumors (GCTs) undergoing first-line chemotherapy. We utilized two institutional databases to analyze the pretreatment-derived NLR (dNLR).
Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) has become an indispensable radiographic tool in diagnosing prostate cancer. However, mpMRI fails to visualize ~15% of clinically significant PCa (csPCa).
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC). However, the therapy is constrained by drug resistance. Therefore, further characterization of immune infiltration in ccRCC is needed to improve its efficacy.
Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is divided into three major histopathologic groups-clear cell (ccRCC), papillary (pRCC) and chromophobe RCC (chRCC). We performed a comprehensive re-analysis of publicly available RCC datasets from the TCGA (The Cancer Genome Atlas) database, thereby combining samples from all three subgroups, for an exploratory transcriptome profiling of RCC subgroups.
Introduction: Positron emission tomography/computer tomography (PET/CT) targeting the prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) plays a key role in staging of patients with prostate cancer (PCa). Moreover, it is not only used for the assessment of adequate PSMA expression of PCa cells before PSMA-targeting radioligand therapy (PSMA RLT) but also for re-staging during the course of […]
Statins’ cholesterol-lowering efficacy is well-known. Recent epidemiological studies have found that inhibition of cholesterol synthesis may have beneficial effects on prostate cancer (PCa) patients, especially patients treated with androgen deprivation therapy (ADT).
