Daily Pad Usage Versus the International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form for Continence Assessment Following Radical Prostatectomy.

Purpose: Continence assessment is an essential component of follow-up after radical prostatectomy (RP). Several methods exist to assess the severity of urinary incontinence (UI). Our study examined the relationship and degree of agreement between International Consultation on Incontinence Questionnaire Short Form (ICIQ-SF) scores and the number of pads used in a 24-hour period in the assessment of UI following RP.

Identification of mutations associated with acquired resistance to sunitinib in renal cell cancer.

Sunitinib is one of the most widely used targeted therapeutics for renal cell carcinoma (RCC), but acquired resistance against targeted therapies remains a major clinical challenge. To dissect mechanisms of acquired resistance and unravel reliable predictive biomarkers for sunitinib in RCC, we sequenced the exons of 409 tumor-suppressor genes and oncogenes in paired tumor samples from an RCC patient, obtained at baseline and after development of acquired resistance to sunitinib. From newly arising mutations, we selected, using in silico prediction models, six predicted to be deleterious, located in G6PD, LRP1B, SETD2, TET2, SYNE1, and DCC.

[Design and validation of a satisfaction questionnaire in patients with urolithiasis treated by extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).].

Objectives: Studying the psychosocial sphere of patients who undergo any treatment allows to have more information about its repercussion and can help the choice of an appropriate and personalized treatment. Due to the absence of specific instruments at present, the objective is to design and validate a health questionnaire regarding the treatment received with ESWL.

Methods: It was carried out in 6 phases using a sampleof 50 patients treated with ESWL in 2015 in ourcenter, whom we interviewed by telephone.

Prevalence analysis of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy and influential preoperative factors in a single institution.

Aims: To assess prevalence of urinary incontinence (UI) after radical prostatectomy (RP) and to analyze which preoperative characteristics of the patients have influence on UI.

Methods: Between 2002 and 2012, 746 consecutive patients underwent RP for clinically localized prostate cancer. We defined UI according to International Continence Society (ICS) definition: "the complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine" after 12 months of recovery, international consultation on incontinence questionnaire (ICIQ-SF) and pads/day was collected too.

Assessment and prevalence of urinary incontinence after radical prostatectomy: Analysis of a historical series.

Objectives: Prostate cancer can be treated by radical prostatectomy and provoke urinary incontinence as secondary effect. Our aim is to calculate the prevalence of urinary incontinence, characteristics of leakage and influential factors, through a historical series.

Methods: We perform a descriptive, observational and retrospective study of 1310 patients who received treatment for PCa between 1989 and 2011.

Can low urinary tract symptoms influence postprostatectomy urinary incontinence?

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze what kind of urinary symptoms patients have before receiving treatment by radical prostatectomy (RP), and to evaluate their influence on urinary incontinence (UI).

Methods: Between 2002 and 2012, 758 consecutive patients underwent RP for clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa). Surgery was carried out by open retropubic RP in 545 (73.

MRI factors to predict urinary incontinence after retropubic/laparoscopic radical prostatectomy.

Purpose: Prostate cancer can be treated by radical prostatectomy (RP) and provoke a troublesome side effect: urinary incontinence (UI). We propose a verification of the usefulness of MRI and an identification of which structures are involved in UI after RP.

Methods: Between September 2002 and December 2011, 550 patients underwent RP.

Serum interleukin-8 reflects tumor burden and treatment response across malignancies of multiple tissue origins.

Purpose: Interleukin-8 (IL8) is a chemokine produced by malignant cells of multiple cancer types. It exerts various functions in shaping protumoral vascularization and inflammation/immunity. We evaluated sequential levels of serum IL8 in preclinical tumor models and in patients to assess its ability to estimate tumor burden.

Case of emphysematous pyelonephritis in kidney allograft: Conservative treatment.

Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an acute necrotizing infection with gas in the kidney and perinephric space that carries a bad prognosis. Apart from its predisposing clinical entities, diabetes mellitus and immune-incompetence are quite common in patients with this infection. We report a case of a 53-year-old kidney transplant recipient diabetic male, suffering from recurrent fever, abdominal pain and nausea episodes.

Ureteroiliac fistula secondary to radiotherapy in a patient with single renal metastasis of colon adenocarcinoma.

We report the case of a 61-year-old man diagnosed in 2001 with rectal cancer (stage T3N1M0). The patient was treated with surgery, adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy. In 2009, he was admitted to the urology department with a complaint of right hemiabdominal pain.