Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is decreased in patients with kidney stones at all stages of stone disease, even when asymptomatic. Stress is thought to contribute to HRQOL, although there has been minimal investigation into the effect of stress on stone-related quality of life (QOL).
To analyse patterns of stone disease online information-seeking behaviours in the United States and to correlate with urological literature publication aspects. To compare Relative Search Volume (RSV) among different twelve preselected urologic keywords we chose "United States" as country and "01/01/2009-31/12/2018" as time range on Google Trends (GT).
Ureterolithiasis in the pediatric population is uncommon and may mimic acute abdomen. While the majority of small stones pass spontaneously, complications may ultimately warrant surgical intervention.
With the aging of the population, prostate hyperplasia is more and more perplexing to the old men. This study aimed to evaluate the predictive value of international prostatic symptom score-voiding/storage score ratio (IPSS-V/S), urodynamic examination, intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP) and residual urine volume (RUV) on the efficacy of holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) […]
In order to increase the efficiency of the low-power holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (LP-HoLEP), and introduce it as a standard surgery for BPH, we described a modified ‘seven-step two-lobe’ HoLEP (ST HoLEP) technique applying 60-W device in a stepwise manner.
To assess perioperative outcomes of HoLEP in a real-world scenario and with a focus on demanding patient factors such as large prostate size, advanced patient age, and anticoagulation therapy (AT). We retrospectively analysed HoLEP procedures at our institution between 2010-2016.
To introduce a novel "three-port" trocar placement technique for laparoscopic radical prostatectomy (LRP) in prostate cancer (PCa) patients. We retrospectively reviewed 300 patients with PCa who received surgical treatment between November 2010 and June 2015 at our institution.
Objective: To investigate the relationship between total prostate specific antigen (TPSA), free prostate specific antigen/total prostate specific antigen [RAT (F/T)], Gleason score, other factors and the whole-body bone plane imaging which was used to evaluate the bone metastasis of prostate cancer (PCa), and the diagnostic value of the abnormal concentration of bone imaging agent for […]
Metabolic dysregulation is a known hallmark of cancer progression, yet the oncogenic signals that promote metabolic adaptations to drive metastatic cancer remain unclear. Here we show that transcriptional repression of mitochondrial deacetylase sirtuin 3 (SIRT3) by androgen receptor (AR) and its coregulator steroid receptor coactivator (SRC-2) enhances mitochondrial aconitase (ACO2) activity to favor aggressive prostate […]
To determine whether utilization of serum miRNA test could improve treatment appropriateness and cost-effectiveness for stage I NSGCT patients. A decision tree model was built to investigate treatment course, clinical and cost outcomes for patients with Stage IA (T1N0M0S0) and IB (T2-4N0M0S0) NSGCT.
