Functional Outcomes After 'SHURUI' Single-Port Robot-Assisted Pyeloplasty for Uretero Pelvic Junction Obstruction: Single-Centre Experience.

Background: To explore the preliminary safety and efficacy of domestic single-port robot-assisted pyeloplasty in ureteropelvic junction obstruction.

Methods: Data from patients undergoing single-port robotic-assisted pyeloplasty (November 2023-May 2024) using the 'SHURUI' SP system through a single-site approach were reviewed. Details included patient demographics, intraoperative and postoperative data, and surgical outcomes.

Domestic single-port robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery for pyelotomy combined with shockwave lithotripsy: the first case report.

Introduction And Importance: Kidney stones are a common condition treated in urology departments and rank first among hospitalized patients. Staghorn kidney stones are a particular type of kidney stone that fill or occupy most of the renal collecting system. They have a large stone load and are often associated with recurrent urinary tract infections and chronic renal insufficiency.

Genetically modified extracellular vesicles loaded with activated gasdermin D potentially inhibit prostate-specific membrane antigen-positive prostate carcinoma growth and enhance immunotherapy.

Prostate cancer (PCa) is associated with poor immunogenicity and lymphocytic infiltration, and immunotherapy effective against PCa remains unavailable. Pyroptosis, a novel immunotherapeutic modality for cancer, promotes systemic immune responses leading to immunogenic cell death in solid tumors. This paper describes the preparation and analysis of PSMA-EV; this genetically engineered recombinant extracellular vesicle (EV) expresses a single-chain variable antibody fragment (scFv) with high affinity for prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) on their surfaces and is loaded with the N-terminal domain of gasdermin D (GSDMD).

Hyaluronic Acid-Modified Luteolin-Copper Complex Nanodelivery System for Bacterial Prostatitis.

Bacterial prostatitis is a common disease of the male genitourinary system, which seriously affects the normal life and health of male patients. Antibiotics are commonly used in the clinical treatment of bacterial prostatitis, but the efficacy of fluoroquinolones is gradually declining due to the increasing drug resistance of bacteria. Hence, it is necessary to find new antibacterial drugs to treat bacterial prostatitis.

Epidural dexmedetomidine or esketamine versus fentanyl to decrease ropivacaine use for labor analgesia: A randomized non-inferiority study.

Background: Epidural nonopioid adjuvants also reduce local anesthetic use. We aimed to test the hypothesis that, compared with the present standard fentanyl, the hourly consumption of local anesthetic was at least as good when dexmedetomidine or esketamine was combined with local anesthetic for patient-controlled epidural analgesia (PCEA).

Methods: A total of 120 laboring nulliparous subjects requiring labor analgesia were recruited for the final statistical analysis.

Analysis of risk factors leading to anxiety and depression in patients with prostate cancer after castration and the construction of a risk prediction model.

Background: Cancer patients often suffer from severe stress reactions psychologically, such as anxiety and depression. Prostate cancer (PC) is one of the common cancer types, with most patients diagnosed at advanced stages that cannot be treated by radical surgery and which are accompanied by complications such as bodily pain and bone metastasis. Therefore, attention should be given to the mental health status of PC patients as well as physical adverse events in the course of clinical treatment.

Observational Study: Clinical characteristics and Survival Rates in Patients with Prostate Cancer with Normal Prostate-Specific Antigen Concentrations.

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the clinical characteristics of patients with prostate cancer with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) concentrations of less than 4 ng/mL (normal PSA) to provide clinical insights regarding diagnosis and treatment.

Methods: We recruited 35 patients with prostate cancer with normal PSA who were admitted to Xi'an People's Hospital from January 2013 to January 2018, and further determined their clinical characteristics, serum PSA concentration, prostate volume, tumor pathology, surgical margins, seminal vesicle invasion, lymph node metastasis, Gleason score, TNM staging, risk classification, and survival, and described the patients' interventions and treatments. All patients and their families signed informed consent forms before enrollment.

Non-coding RNAs in enzalutamide resistance of castration-resistant prostate cancer.

Enzalutamide (Enz) is a next-generation androgen receptor (AR) antagonist used to treat castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Unfortunately, the relapsing nature of CRPC results in the development of Enz resistance in many patients. Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are RNA molecules that do not encode proteins, which include microRNAs (miRNA), long ncRNAs (lncRNAs), circular RNAs (circRNAs), and other ncRNAs with known and unknown functions.

Determination of the Dose-Response Relationship of Epidural Dexmedetomidine Combined with Ropivacaine for Labor Analgesia.

Background: The safety and efficacy of dexmedetomidine for epidural labor analgesia have been reported in numerous literatures, but the optimal dose has not been fully determined. The objective of this study was to determine the dose-response relationship of epidural dexmedetomidine (combined with ropivacaine) for labor analgesia.

Methods: A total of 120 full-term laboring parturients requesting epidural labor analgesia were enrolled in the study from July 5, 2020 to September 22, 2021.

Mutational analysis of renal angiomyolipoma associated with tuberous sclerosis complex and the outcome of short-term everolimus therapy.

To identify clinical characteristics and mutation spectra in Chinese patients with renal angiomyolipoma (AML) associated with the tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC, TSC-AML), examined the efficacy and safety of short-term everolimus therapy (12 weeks). We analyzed the frequency distribution of each TSC-related clinical feature and investigated gene mutations by genetic testing. Some subjects received everolimus for 12 weeks at a dose of 10 mg/day, and the efficacy and safety of short-term everolimus therapy were examined.

Wedge resection of the tarsal plate combined with the modified Hotz procedure for correction of involutional lower eyelid entropion.

Objectives: To investigate the outcomes for correction of involutional lower eyelid entropion by wedge resection of the tarsus combined with the modified Hotz procedure.

Design: Retrospective study.

Participants: Patients with lower eyelid involutional entropion that was surgically repaired by wedge resection of the tarsal plate combined with the modified Hotz procedure.

Lower eyelid tension balance reconstruction: A new procedure for the repair of congenital epiblepharon with epicanthus.

Background: Congenital epiblepharon with epicanthus (CEE) is a common eyelid malposition in Asian children, which generally involves the lower eyelid. The induced cilial entropion may cause constant ocular irritation that requires surgical repair. The purpose of this study is to report the outcomes and surgical details of a novel procedure, lower eyelid tension balance reconstruction (LETBR), for the correction of CEE.

Immunoproapoptotic molecule scFv-Fdt-tBid modified mesenchymal stem cells for prostate cancer dual-targeted therapy.

Highly efficient target therapy is urgently needed for prostate cancer with overexpression of γ-seminoprotein (γ-SM). Recent studies indicated that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are attractive candidate for cell-based, targeted therapy due to their tumor tropism. Here we designed a dual-target therapeutic system in which MSCs were engineered to produce and deliver scFv-Fdt-tBid, a novel γ-SM-targeted immunoproapoptotic molecule.

Modified Hotz Procedure Combined With Modified Z-Epicanthoplasty Versus Modified Hotz Procedure Alone for Epiblepharon Repair.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of the modified Hotz procedure alone and combined with modified Z-epicanthoplasty for correction of epiblepharon.

Methods: Seventy-one Chinese patients who underwent epiblepharon repair were divided into 2 groups. In group 1, 33 patients (59 eyes) were operated on with the modified Hotz procedure.