Objective: To evaluate the safety of Holmium laser enucleation of the prostate (HoLEP) in octogenarian compared to non-octogenarian patients.
Methods: A retrospective cohort analysis was performed using the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS-NSQIP) database from 2011 to 2020. We assessed baseline demographic data, American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) score, functional status, and medical comorbidities.
Introduction: Advances in health care have resulted in an increasing octogenarian population in the United States. The prevalence of lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) in this subgroup exceeds 70%. This study attempts to evaluate perioperative outcomes of different transurethral techniques in octogenarians and define their utilization trends from 2011 to 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAccess to DNA is the first level of control in regulating gene transcription, a control that is also critical for maintaining DNA integrity. Cellular senescence is characterized by profound transcriptional rearrangements and accumulation of DNA lesions. Here, we discovered an epigenetic complex between HDAC4 and HDAC1/HDAC2 that is involved in the erase of H2BK120 acetylation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe base excision repair (BER) Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) enzyme is endowed with several non-repair activities including miRNAs processing. APE1 is overexpressed in many cancers but its causal role in the tumorigenic processes is largely unknown. We recently described that APE1 can be actively secreted by mammalian cells through exosomes.
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