Modified 5-Item Frailty Index Score as Prognostic Marker After Radical Cystectomy in Bladder Cancer.

Introduction: A modified 5-item frailty index was recently developed as a predictor of patient comorbidity-based mortality and morbidity. We evaluate the association between preoperative modified 5-item frailty index score and prognosis after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

Patients And Methods: In this multicenter retrospective study, we calculated modified 5-item frailty index scores of the 238 patients that underwent radical cystectomy for bladder cancer between March 2009, and March 2018.

Usefulness of Preoperative High Systemic Immune-Inflammation Index as a Prognostic Biomarker in Patients Who Undergo Radical Cystectomy for Bladder Cancer: Multicenter Analysis.

Evidence of the prognostic value of pretreatment systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) after radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer is limited. This study aims to assess the association between preoperative SII and prognosis after RC for bladder cancer. In this multicenter retrospective study, we calculated preoperative SII as well as the neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) in 237 patients who underwent RC for bladder cancer between March 2009 and March 2018.

Myosteatosis as a novel prognostic biomarker after radical cystectomy for bladder cancer.

This study aims to evaluate the influence of myosteatosis on survival of patients after radical cystectomy (RC) for bladder cancer. We retrospectively identified 230 patients who underwent RC for bladder cancer at our three institutions between 2009 and 2018. Digitized free-hand outlines of the left and right psoas muscles were made on axial non-contrast computed tomography images at level L3.

Naftopidil versus flopropione as medical expulsive therapy for distal ureteral stones: results of a randomized, multicenter, double-blind, controlled trial.

Purpose: A multicenter, double-blind, randomized, controlled trial was conducted to determine the efficacy of naftopidil as medical expulsive therapy (MET) for patients with distal ureteral stones.

Methods: Ninety-two patients presenting with a single distal ureteral stone ≤10 mm were randomly assigned to receive either naftopidil (75 mg of naftopidil once in the morning and placebo twice a day) or flopropione (80 mg three times a day). The primary end point was time to stone expulsion calculated by the Kaplan-Meier method.

[Preoperative parameters, including percent of positive biopsy cores, in predicting pathological findings after radical prostatectomy].

Objectives: We investigated whether preoperative parameters predict pathological stage at radical prostatectomy for patients with clinically localized prostatic cancer.

Materials And Methods: We studied a total of 160 men with clinically localized prostatic cancer (less than or equal to clinical T2) who underwent radical rertropubic prostatectomy at Wakayama Medical University. Clinical Ts patients are not included in this study.

[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the prostate: a case report].

We report a rare case of inflammatory pseudotumor of the prostate. A 42-year-old man with a history of hematospermia and chronic prostatitis presented with difficulty in voiding. Cystoscopy demonstrated a large non-papillary tumor occupying the prostatic urethra along with two bladder stones.