Issue 8/2021
Including the Topical Section: Active Surveillance of Renal Tumors
Content (40 Articles)
Renal cancer: overdiagnosis and overtreatment
Giuseppe Rosiello, Alessandro Larcher, Francesco Montorsi, Umberto Capitanio
Natural history of untreated kidney cancer
Kristen McAlpine, Antonio Finelli
Comorbidity and frailty assessment in renal cell carcinoma patients
Jean Courcier, Alexandre De La Taille, Nathalie Lassau, Alexandre Ingels
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
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
Decision-making in active surveillance in kidney cancer: current trends and future urine and tissue markers
Sunil H. Patel, Nirmish Singla, Phillip M. Pierorazio
Available active surveillance follow-up protocols for small renal mass: a systematic review
Giacomo Rebez, Nicola Pavan, M. Carmen Mir
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Retrospective German claims data study on initial treatment of bladder carcinoma (BCa) by transurethral bladder resection (TURB): a comparative analysis of costs using standard white light- (WL-) vs. blue light- (BL-) TURB
Tilman Todenhöfer, Moritz Maas, Miriam Ketz, Nils Kossack, Christiane Colling, Bryan Qvick, Arnulf Stenzl
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
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
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
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
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
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
Initial single centre experience of Aquablation of the prostate using the AquaBeam system with athermal haemostasis for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia: 1-year outcomes
Danielle Whiting, Keng Lim Ng, Neil Barber
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
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
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
Outcomes of laparoscopic artificial urinary sphincter in women with stress urinary incontinence: mid-term evaluation
Alice Schroeder, Pierre Munier, Christian Saussine, Thibault Tricard
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
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
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
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
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
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
Reply letter to: Breda, A., Territo, A. & Sanguedolce, F. Combination of holmium and thulium laser ablation in upper tract urothelial carcinoma. World J Urol (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00345-020-03124-z
Lorenzo Defidio, Michele Antonucci, Anup Patel
Comment on “Safety and efficacy of bipolar versus monopolar transurethral resection of bladder tumor: a systematic review and meta-analysis”
Gopal Sharma, Aditya Prakash Sharma
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