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World Journal of Urology

Issue 8/2021

Including the Topical Section: Active Surveillance of Renal Tumors

Content (40 Articles)

Kidney Cancer Editorial

Renal cancer: overdiagnosis and overtreatment

Giuseppe Rosiello, Alessandro Larcher, Francesco Montorsi, Umberto Capitanio

Kidney Cancer Topic Paper

Natural history of untreated kidney cancer

Kristen McAlpine, Antonio Finelli

Kidney Cancer Topic Paper

Comorbidity and frailty assessment in renal cell carcinoma patients

Jean Courcier, Alexandre De La Taille, Nathalie Lassau, Alexandre Ingels

Open Access Nephrectomy Topic Paper

Frailty predicts outcome of partial nephrectomy and guides treatment decision towards active surveillance and tumor ablation

M. T. Walach, M. F. Wunderle, N. Haertel, J. K. Mühlbauer, K. F. Kowalewski, N. Wagener, N. Rathmann, M. C. Kriegmair

Ultrasound Topic Paper

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) imaging for active surveillance of small renal masses

Elena Bertelli, Alberto Palombella, Francesco Sessa, Irene Baldi, Noemi Morelli, Silvia Verna, Isabella Greco, Simone Morselli, Alessandro Pili, Arcangelo Sebastianelli, Alessandro Berni, Rossella Nicoletti, Andrea Minervini, Marco Carini, Mauro Gacci, Vittorio Miele, Simone Agostini, Sergio Serni, Riccardo Campi

Radiomics to better characterize small renal masses

Teele Kuusk, Joana B. Neves, Maxine Tran, Axel Bex

Open Access Invited Review

Evolving robotic surgery training and improving patient safety, with the integration of novel technologies

I-Hsuan Alan Chen, Ahmed Ghazi, Ashwin Sridhar, Danail Stoyanov, Mark Slack, John D. Kelly, Justin W. Collins

Theophylline Invited Review

Tea and coffee consumption and the risk of urinary stones—a systematic review of the epidemiological data

Yazeed Barghouthy, Mariela Corrales, Steeve Doizi, Bhaskar K. Somani, Olivier Traxer

Open Access Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy Original Article

Laser procedures in the treatment of BPH: a bibliometric study

Anja C. Reichelt, Rodrigo Suarez-Ibarrola, Thomas R. W. Herrmann, Arkadiusz Miernik, Dominik S. Schöb

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Impact of surgical wait times during summer months on the oncological outcomes following robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy: 10 years’ experience from a large Canadian academic center

Ahmed S. Zakaria, Félix Couture, David-Dan Nguyen, Côme Tholomier, Hanna Shahine, Franziska Stolzenbach, Malek Meskawi, Pierre I. Karakiewicz, Assaad El-Hakim, Kevin C. Zorn

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Anastomosis quality score during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: a new simple tool to maximize postoperative management

Francesco Porpiglia, Enrico Checcucci, Sabrina De Cillis, Daniele Amparore, Angela Pecoraro, Alberto Piana, Stefano Granato, Paolo Verri, Michele Sica, Federico Piramide, Matteo Manfredi, Cristian Fiori

Open Access Incontinence Surgery Original Article

Treatment of post-prostatectomy urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction: there is insufficient utilisation of care in German cancer survivors

Martin Baunacke, Maria-Luisa Schmidt, Christer Groeben, Angelika Borkowetz, Christian Thomas, Rainer Koch, Falk Hoffmann, Felix K. H. Chun, Lothar Weissbach, Johannes Huber

Prostate Cancer Original Article

Whole-body MRI-based multivariate prediction model in the assessment of bone metastasis in prostate cancer

Rui Chen, Qingsong Yang, Wenjin Chen, Yue Yang, Chao Cheng, Yinghao Sun, Jianping Lu

Prostate Cancer Original Article

PSA and obesity among men with localized prostate cancer: results of the ANDROCAN study

Matthias E. Meunier, Yann Neuzillet, Jean-François Dreyfus, Marc Schneider, Morgan Rouprêt, Xavier Cathelineau, Jean-Pierre Raynaud, Thierry Lebret, Henry Botto

Nephrectomy Original Article

Parenchymal biopsy in the management of patients with renal cancer

Umberto Capitanio, Alessandro Larcher, Giuseppe Fallara, Francesco Trevisani, Esteban Porrini, Federico Di Marco, Gianfranco Baiamonte, Chiara Re, Arianna Bettiga, Giacomo Dell’Antonio, Claudio Doglioni, Francesco De Cobelli, Roberto Bertini, Andrea Salonia, Francesco Montorsi

Nephrectomy Original Article

Clinical, surgical, pathological and follow-up features of kidney cancer patients with Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome: novel insights from a large consortium

Umberto Capitanio, Giuseppe Rosiello, Selcuk Erdem, Isaline Rowe, Onder Kara, Eduard Roussel, Riccardo Campi, Tobias Klatte, Maximilian C. Kriegmair, Mattia Sibona, Riccardo Bertolo, Idir Ouzaid, Maria Carmen Mir, Giancarlo Marra, Alessandro Larcher, Francesco Montorsi, Andrea Salonia

Open Access Kidney Cancer Original Article

Predictive value of De Ritis ratio in metastatic renal cell carcinoma treated with tyrosine-kinase inhibitors

Florian Janisch, Thomas Klotzbücher, Phillip Marks, Christina Kienapfel, Christian P. Meyer, Hang Yu, Constantin Fühner, Tobias Hillemacher, Keiichiro Mori, Hadi Mostafei, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Margit Fisch, Roland Dahlem, Michael Rink

COVID-19 Original Article

Association between chronic kidney disease and COVID-19-related mortality in New York

Nihal E. Mohamed, Emma K. T. Benn, Varuna Astha, Kennedy E. Okhawere, Talia G. Korn, William Nkemdirim, Ami Rambhia, Olajumoke A. Ige, Hassan Funchess, Meredith Mihalopoulos, Kirolos N. Meilika, Natasha Kyprianou, Ketan K. Badani

Antibiotic Original Article

Incidence, risk factors, and outcome of Clostridioides difficile infection following urological surgeries

Kevin A. Nguyen, Danny Q. Le, Yvonne T. Bui, Sonali D. Advani, Joseph Renzulli II, Patrick A. Kenney, Michael S. Leapman

Laser Original Article

A randomized controlled trial comparing high and medium power settings for holmium laser enucleation of prostate

Hemendra N. Shah, Mohamed H. Etafy, Jonathan E. Katz, Emmanuel A. Garcia Lopez, Rashmi H. Shah

Combined top-down approach with low-power thulium laser enucleation of prostate: evaluation of one-year functional outcomes

Mohamed Omar, Amr Hodhod, Ahmed Moustafa, Mohamed M. Abdullah, Mohamed El Shazly, Manoj Monga

Stress Incontinence Original Article

Photoselective sharp enucleation of the prostate with a front-firing 532-nm laser: an innovative surgical technique for benign prostatic hyperplasia—a single-center study of 475 cases

Yongquan Wang, Zhengchao Liu, Tao Jiang, Xiaozhou Zhou, Zhipeng Chen, Jun Zheng, Dishi Yan, Yuanxiu Zhou, Zhansong Zhou, Wenhao Shen

Overactive Bladder Original Article

The effect of β3-adrenoceptor gene polymorphisms on lower urinary tract function in males

Nobuhiro Haga, Yu Okabe, Takeshi Miyazaki, Kazuna Tsubouchi, Hidenori Akaihata, Junya Hata, Ruriko Honda, Kanako Matsuoka, Soichiro Ogawa, Yoshiyuki Kojima

Rezum therapy for patients with large prostates (≥ 80 g): initial clinical experience and postoperative outcomes

Evan B. Garden, Devki Shukla, Krishna T. Ravivarapu, Steven A. Kaplan, Avinash K. Reddy, Alexander C. Small, Michael A. Palese

Multiple Sclerosis Original Article

B3 agonists or anticholinergics in the treatment of the lower urinary tract dysfunction in patients with multiple sclerosis?—A randomized study

I. Glykas, Ch Fragkoulis, D. D. Mitsikostas, A. Papatsoris, I. Mitsogiannis, G. Papadopoulos, A. Skolarikos, I. Gkialas, K. Ntoumas, A. Dellis

Laparoscopy Original Article

Outcomes of laparoscopic artificial urinary sphincter in women with stress urinary incontinence: mid-term evaluation

Alice Schroeder, Pierre Munier, Christian Saussine, Thibault Tricard

Peeling Original Article

Single-surgeon experience of excision and primary anastomosis for bulbar urethral stricture: analysis of surgical and patient-reported outcomes

Akio Horiguchi, Kenichiro Ojima, Masayuki Shinchi, Yusuke Hirano, Koetsu Hamamoto, Keiichi Ito, Tomohiko Asano, Eiji Takahashi, Fumihiro Kimura, Ryuichi Azuma

Original Article

Evaluating outcomes of complete supine percutaneous nephrolithotomy for staghorn vs multiple non-staghorn renal stones: a 10-year study

Reza Falahatkar, Tamkin Shahraki, Siavash Falahatkar, Samaneh Esmaeili, Parham Mashouf

Care Original Article

Adherence to guidelines in the management of urolithiasis: are there differences among distinct patient care settings?

Lennert Eismann, Alexander Kretschmer, Markus J. Bader, Sabine Kess, Christian G. Stief, Frank Strittmatter

Shock Original Article

Value of early second session shock wave lithotripsy in treatment of upper ureteric stones compared to laser ureteroscopy

Ahmed M. Abdelbary, Ahmad A. Al-Dessoukey, Ayman S. Moussa, Akram A. Elmarakbi, Ahmed M. Ragheb, Osama Sayed, Ahmed M. Elbatanouny, Ahmed Abd El Latif, Amr M. Lofty, Ahmed G. Mohamed, Shehab Salah, Rabie M. Ibrahim

Open Access Urinary Tract Infection Original Article

Risk of UTI in kidney stone formers: a matched-cohort study over a median follow-up of 19 years

Eleanor Brain, Robert M. Geraghty, Paul Cook, Paul Roderick, Bhaskar Somani

Endoscopic surgical simulation using low-fidelity and virtual reality transurethral resection simulators in urology simulation boot camp course: trainees feedback assessment study

Christopher Berridge, Mithun Kailavasan, Grigorios Athanasiadis, Agapios Gkentzis, Tariq Tassadaq, Victor Palit, Bhavan Rai, Chandra S. Biyani, Ghulam Nabi

COVID-19 Original Article

Implementing telemedicine for the management of benign urologic conditions: a single centre experience in Italy

Enrico Checcucci, Stefano De Luca, Paolo Alessio, Paolo Verri, Stefano Granato, Sabrina De Cillis, Daniele Amparore, Michele Sica, Federico Piramide, Alberto Piana, Gabriele Volpi, Matteo Manfredi, Gabriella Balestra, Riccardo Autorino, Cristian Fiori, Francesco Porpiglia, Beatrice Carbonaro, Davide Zamengo, Stefano Piscitello, Juliette Meziere

SARS-CoV-2 Letter to the Editor

Androgenic hormones and the excess male mortality observed in COVID-19 patients: new convergent data

Pierre-Jean Lamy, Xavier Rébillard, Francis Vacherot, Alexandre de la Taille