Issue 1/2008
Content (41 Articles)
The International Urology and Nephrology journal looks to the future
Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos
Pediatric urolithiasis: an 8-year experience of single centre
Ismail Dursun, Hakan M. Poyrazoglu, Ruhan Dusunsel, Zubeyde Gunduz, Metin K. Gurgoze, Deniz Demirci, Mustafa Kucukaydın
Semi-rigid ureterorenoscopy in children without ureteral dilatation
Abdullah Gedik, Seyfettin Orgen, Ali Ferruh Akay, Hayrettin Sahin, Mehmet Kamuran Bircan
Ureteroscopic holmium laser lithotripsy in patients with renal impairment
Ahmed S. Safwat, Nabil K. Bissada, Udaya Kumar, Mohamed I. Taha, Fathy G. Elanany, Ahmed M. Eltaher, Medhat A. Abdalla
Use of double-J stents prior to extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is not beneficial: results of a prospective randomized study
Abdulla Ahmed Karama Musa
Comparative study of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy outcomes for proximal and distal ureteric stones
Burak Turna, Kaan Akbay, Fatih Ekren, Oktay Nazlı, Erdal Apaydın, Bülent Semerci, Gürhan Günaydın, İbrahim Cüreklibatır
The impact of pelvicaliceal features on problematic lower pole stone clearance in different age groups
Serhat Gurocak, Bora Kupeli, Cenk Acar, Mustafa Ozgur Tan, Ustunol Karaoglan, Ibrahim Bozkirli
Health-related quality of life in patients undergoing lithotripsy for urinary stones
Toshifumi Kurahashi, Hideaki Miyake, Masashi Shinozaki, Nobutoshi Oka, Atsushi Takenaka, Isao Hara, Masato Fujisawa
Comparison of solvent-dehydrated allograft dermis and autograft rectus fascia for pubovaginal sling: questionnaire-based analysis
Rahmi Onur, Ajay Singla, Kathleen C. Kobashi
Is the efficacy of in situ vaginal wall slings decreasing in the late follow-up?
Ahmet Metin, Önder Kayıgil, S. İftekhar Ahmed, Ali Fuat Atmaca
Our experience with salvage genitourinary fistulae repair: technique and outcomes
Demetrios K. Radopoulos, Georgios P. Dimitriadis, Ioannis K. Vakalopoulos, Stavros S. Ioannidis, Konstantinos A. Tzakas, Ioannis E. Vasilakakis
Maximal bladder capacity is a positive predictor of response to desmopressin treatment in patients with MS and nocturia
Athanasios Zahariou, Maria Karamouti, George Karagiannis, Polyanthi Papaioannou
The role of free radicals and nitric oxide in the ischemia–reperfusion injury mediated by acute bladder outlet obstruction
Asıf Yıldırım, Fikret Fatih Önol, Goncagül Haklar, Tufan Tarcan
p53 antibodies in the serum of patients with prostate cancer
Yoko Kubota, Yoshiki Onmura, Hiroshi Ohji, Takuya Kunii, Tomohiro Shibasaki, Teruhiro Nakada, Yoshihiko Tomita
Diagnostic efficacy of free to total ratio of prostate-specific antigen and prostate-specific antigen velocity, singly and in combination, in detecting prostate cancer in patients with total serum prostate-specific antigen between 4 and 10 ng/ml
Shingo Yamamoto, Takuo Maruyama, Nobuyuki Kondoh, Michio Nojima, Hidekazu Takiuchi, Seiichi Hirota, Hiroki Shima
Potential predictive factors of positive prostate biopsy in the Japanese population
Katsumi Shigemura, Soichi Arakawa, Kunito Yamanaka, Nobuo Yasui, Shigeji Matsubara, Takahiro Iwamoto, Nobuo Kataoka, Keiji Yuien, Masato Fujisawa
Impact of PSA flare-up in patients with hormone-refractory prostate cancer undergoing chemotherapy
Thomas Nelius, Tobias Klatte, Werner de Riese, Stephanie Filleur
Iatrogenic and non-iatrogenic positive margins: incidence, site, factors involved, and time to PSA progression following radical prostatectomy
Athanase Billis, Isabela C. Watanabe, Matheus V. Costa, Gilliat H. Telles, Luis A. Magna
Ewing’s sarcoma/primitive neuroectodermal tumor (ES/PNET) of the penis
Isin Kilicaslan, Ebru Karayigit, Fikret Bulut, Mert Basaran, Yavuz Dizdar, Isik Aslay, Veli Uysal
Erectile dysfunction may predict coronary artery disease: relationship between coronary artery calcium scoring and erectile dysfunction severity
Onder Yaman, Omer Gulpinar, Taner Hasan, Cagdas Ozdol, Fatih S. Ertas, Enver Ozgenci
Is deep dorsal vein arterialization effective in elderly patients?
Onder Kayigil, Koray Agras, Emrah Okulu
The effect of sildenafil citrate and pentoxifylline combined treatment in the management of erectile dysfunction
Ozdem Levent Ozdal, Cuneyt Ozden, Serkan Gokkaya, Guvenc Urgancioglu, Binhan Kagan Aktas, Ali Memis
The role of cell adhesion molecules in ischemic epididymal injury
Hayrettin Ozturk, Hulya Ozturk, Ali Ihsan Dokucu
Epidemiology and treatment delay in testicular cancer patients: a retrospective study
Martina Ondrusova, Dalibor Ondrus
Twenty-first Century ethics of medical research involving human subjects: achievements and challenges
Antonios H. Tzamaloukas, Konstantin N. Konstantinov, Emmanuel I. Agaba, Dominic S. C. Raj, Glen H. Murata, Robert H. Glew
Statin therapy in peritoneal dialysis patients: effects beyond lipid lowering
Kosmas I. Paraskevas
Mineral and bone disorder after renal transplantation: a review
Hazim Sadideen, Adrian Covic, David Goldsmith
Effects of wortmannin on phosphorylation of PDK1, GSK3-β, PTEN and expression of Skp2 mRNA after ischemia/reperfusion injury in the mouse kidney
Xiangyi Zheng, Liping Xie, Jie Qin, Huafeng Shen, Zhaodian Chen, Yongfeng Jin
Magnesium carbonate for phosphate control in patients on hemodialysis. A randomized controlled trial
Ioannis P. Tzanakis, Antonia N. Papadaki, Mingxin Wei, Stella Kagia, Vlassios V. Spadidakis, Nikolaos E. Kallivretakis, Dimitrios G. Oreopoulos
Patient-reported sleep difficulty and cognitive function during the first year of dialysis
Nancy G. Kutner, Rebecca Zhang, Yijian Huang, Donald L. Bliwise
Dyspepsia in Turkish patients on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis
Mustafa Altay, Faruk Turgut, Hatice Akay, Mehmet Kanbay, Aysegul Babali, Ali Akcay, Murat Duranay, Ramazan Yigitoglu, Adrian Covic
Icodextrin produces higher ultrafiltration in diabetic than in non-diabetic patients on continuous cyclic peritoneal dialysis
Mufazzal Ahmad, Tarun Jeloka, Theodoros Pliakogiannis, Shruti Tapiawala, Hui Zhong, Joanne M. Bargman, Dimitrios Oreopoulos
Biodistribution of 99mTc-creatinine in rats with ablation nephropathy
Fatma Yurt Lambrecht, Alper Soylu, Osman Yılmaz, Kubra Durkan, Salih Kavukçu
Hyperphosphatemia and nicotinic acid in peritoneal dialysis patients
Carlos Guido Musso, Maria J. Reynaldi, Carolina Aparicio, Silvina Frydenlund, Nora Imperiali, L. Algranati
Late-onset renal failure from angiotensin blockade (LORFFAB) in 100 CKD patients
Macaulay A. C. Onuigbo, Nnonyelum T. C. Onuigbo
Spinal epidural abscess in an elderly diabetic end stage renal disease patient on continuous ambulatory peritonial dialysis (CAPD)
P. Ramakrishna, Ch. Ramakrishna, K. SunilKumar, A. Y. Lakshmi, B. Vijaya Lakshmi Devi, J. V. Bhushan, Abhijith Choudary, Kumaraswamy Reddy, V. Sivakumar
Ureterosygmoidostomy-associated quadriparesis, non-traumatic rhabdomyolysis, and tetany in an adult
Sehmus Ozmen, Ramazan Danis, Davut Akin, Nezir Gullu, Cihan Akgul Ozmen, Orhan Yazanel