Usefulness and acceptability of a Smart pH meter and mobile medical App as a monitoring tool in patients with urolithiasis: short-term prospective study.

Original Article: Usefulness and Acceptability of a Smart pH Meter and Mobile Medical App as a Monitoring Tool in Patients with Urolithiasis: Short-term Prospective Study.

Objective: An accurate strategy for regularly measuring urine pH is the use of portable electronic pH meters. This study evaluated the usefulness and acceptability of the smart Lit-Control® pH Meter connected with a companion mobile medical application (myLit-Control(R) App) used by patients with urolithiasis for home monitoring of urine pH.

[Prostatic high resolution micro-ultrasound (MUS) imaging.].

Objective: Prostate cancer (PCa) diagnosis has improved with multiparametric magnetic resonance (mpMRI) and new more specific biomarkers. However, mpMRI has some limitations such as variability, long learning curve and high cost. More progress is needed in the PCa diagnosis scenario, and it is here where high resolution micro-ultrasound (MUS) imaging system emerge.

How to build a robotic program.

Objective: Advancements in the robotic surgical technology have revolutionized the standard of care for many surgical procedures. The purpose of this review is to focus on the different issues involved in developmental phase of starting a robotic program and to evaluate the important considerations in developing this program at a given healthcare institution.

Methods & Results: Although every hospital might desire a robotic program, there are many requirements needed to uphold a successful and self-sustainable program in the current healthcare market.

[BCG therapy in NMIBC: How much and for how long?.].

Bladder cancer is the 9th most prevalent cancer in the world. It is divided into muscle invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) and non muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC). Over 75% belong to the second group and it will be classified according to the risk of progression and recurrence.

[Current status of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in urinary lithiasis.].

Over the last decade, urinary lithiasis' prevalence has dramatically increased due to diet and lifestyle changes, growing 10.6% and 7.1% in men and women respectively.