Clinical observation of male bulbar urethral strictures resulting from straddle injuries associated with falling from heights and riding activities.

Objectives: To retrospectively investigate and analyze the characteristics of male bulbar urethral strictures or occlusions resulting from straddle injuries caused by falling from heights and riding activities.

Methods: The study included 56 patients with a history of straddle injury, who were divided into two groups: the falling group (n = 29) and the riding group (n = 27). All patients underwent urethroscopy and X-ray urethrography, followed by urethrotomy and anastomotic procedure.

An innovative method for occluding the urethral meatus and accessing urethra strictures in retrograde urethrography in males.

Objectives: To observe and evaluate the effectiveness and safety of using a sponge plug method to occlude the urethral meatus during retrograde urethrography (RUG) for accessing male urethral strictures.

Methods: 40 male patients with a mean age of 51.4 years and a history of urethral injury were primarily diagnosed with urethral stricture using a urethrocystoscope.

An abrupt decrease in arterial blood pressure may predict a high level carbon dioxide embolism in retroperitoneoscopic surgery: case report and a literature review.

Background: Carbon dioxide (CO) embolism is the primary suspect in most cases of intraoperative "cardiovascular" collapse. However, there are few reports about CO embolism in retroperitoneal laparoscopy.

Case Presentation: An abrupt decrease in arterial blood pressure was noted in time of retroperitoneoscopic adrenalectomy in a 40 years old male patient with adrenal adenoma.

Outcomes of early endoscopic realignment for blunt straddle injuries to the bulbar urethra: a single-center retrospective study.

Background: The optimal acute management of patients with blunt straddle injury to the bulbar urethra remains in question. Conventionally, suprapubic diversion with delayed urethroplasty can always be considered, if necessary, but the role of early endoscopic realignment (EER) in the acute management of blunt straddle injuries to bulbar urethra is controversial. We report our clinical experience and outcomes with EER for patients with straddle injury to the bulbar urethra in a level one trauma center.

GPNMB overexpression is associated with extensive bone metastasis and poor prognosis in renal cell carcinoma.

Glycoprotein non-metastatic protein B (GPNMB) promotes bone metastasis (BM) in various types of cancer. However, GPNMB expression and its function in patients with renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and BM is still unknown. Therefore, the clinical significance of GPNMB and its biological function in RCC with BM was investigated in the present study.

Comparison of two different methods of establishment of canine urethroplasty model: an experimental trial.

Background: Graft substitute urethroplasty is recommended for patients with long segment anterior urethral stricture. The therapeutic effects of the grafts need to be validated on the animal models. Therefore the aim of this study was to compared the operative time, blood loss, intra- and post- operative complications of two different methods of establishment of canine urethroplasty model.

Clinical Characteristics and Prognosis of Renal Cell Carcinoma With Spinal Bone Metastases.

Background: The prognosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) with spinal bone metastasis (sBM) varies greatly. In this study, we aimed to define the clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of RCC with spinal bone metastasis (sBM) in our center.

Methods: The clinical and medical records of RCC patients with sBMs were collected.

Retroperitoneal Laparoscopic-Assisted Retrieval of Wall-Penetrating Inferior Vena Cava Filter After Endovascular Techniques Failed: An Initial Clinical Outcome.

Background: Inferior vena cava (IVC) filters are commonly used in China to prevent pulmonary embolisms in patients with deep vein thrombosis. However, IVC filter removal is complicated when the filter has penetrated the IVC wall and endovascular techniques usually fail. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of retroperitoneal laparoscopic-assisted retrieval of wall-penetrating IVC filters after endovascular techniques have failed.

Low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy for male chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Background: A systematic review of the evidence was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy (LI-ESWT) for patients with chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS).

Methods: A comprehensive search was undertaken of the Cochrane Register, PubMed, and Embase databases for controlled trials that evaluated patients with CPPS who were treated with LI-ESWT and that were published before August 2019. The National Institutes of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (NIH-CPSI) was the most frequently used tool to evaluate the treatment efficacy of LI-ESWT.

Impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on visits and treatments for patients with ureteral stones in a general hospital emergency department.

Background: The COVID-19 is a challenge for both patients and physicians in emergency department (ED). This study was aimed to report the impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak on visits and treatments for patients with ureteral stones in a general hospital ED.

Methods: The patients with ureteral stones were collected from 24 January to 24 March 2020 during the COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing.

Low-intensity extracorporeal shock wave therapy for III B chronic pelvic pain syndrome.

Background: To analyze the efficiency of low-intensity shock wave therapy (LI-ESWT) for patients with III B chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS).

Methods: The study included an uncontrolled population of 32 patients who had suffered with CPPS for ≥3 months. LI-ESWT was performed without anesthesia via a perineal approach.

Modified cystoscopy-assisted laparoscopic Y-V plasty for recalcitrant bladder neck contracture.

Background And Aim: Recalcitrant bladder neck contracture (BNC) is a common complication after transurethral resection of the prostate. Our aim was to show the outcomes of a modified cystoscopy-assisted laparoscopic Y-V plasty for BNC treatments.

Material And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated a series of 27 patients who underwent a modified cystoscopy-assisted laparoscopic Y-V plasty for recalcitrant BNC from January 2017 to September 2019.

PCNL in COPD patient in the sit position under local infiltration anesthesia case report.

Background: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy is traditionally performed in the prone or supine position. We report the first case of percutaneous nephrolithotomy in sit position under local infiltration anesthesia. A 69-year-old male presented with left flank pain.

LINC00963 Functions as an Oncogene in Bladder Cancer by Regulating the miR-766-3p/MTA1 Axis.

Purpose: Long non-coding RNAs have been found to be involved in bladder cancer development. This article studied LINC00963 effects on bladder cancer progression to provide a novel treatment target.

Patients And Methods: Totally 56 bladder cancer patients participated in this research.

Papain Mediated Synthesized Gold Nanoparticles Encore the Potency of Bioconjugated Flutamide.

Background: Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of male cancer death after lung cancer in the US. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a highly effective therapeutic drug at substantially low doses.

Objective: Anti-androgen drug flutamide was delivered to the prostate cancer cells using Papain Mediated Synthesized Gold Nanoparticles (PGNPs) as the drug delivery system.

Transurethral resection of the prostate stricture management.

For more than nine decades, transurethral resection of the prostate remains the gold standard for the surgical treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic obstruction. The occurrence of urethral strictures after transurethral resection of the prostate is one of the major late complications and has been reported as the leading cause of iatrogenic urethral strictures in patients older than 45 years who underwent urethroplasty. Although several postulations have been proposed to explain the urethral stricture after transurethral resection of the prostate, the exact etiology of urethral stricture after TURP is still controversial.

Oleic acid promotes cell invasion through an integrin-linked kinase signaling pathway in renal cell carcinoma.

The change of fatty acid composition has been regarded as an indicator of altered lipid metabolism during human tumourigenesis, but the details are still unclear. We have previously demonstrated a monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA) named oleic acid (OA) was involved in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) cell growth, as an extracellular signaling molecule to regulate 786-O cell proliferation via the integrin-linked kinase (ILK) pathway. In this study, we further observe the effects of OA on cell invasion of RCC and the potential mechanism by which OA worked was determined.

Removal of a broken acupuncture needle in retroperitoneum by laparoscopy: a case report.

Background: Acupuncture is a famous traditional medicine in China, but the complications caused by broken acupuncture needles have been rarely reported. It seems easy to remove the foreign matters usually, but things become difficulty in special issues. Here, we reported a recently encountered case to provide an important teaching point of treating a chronically retained broken needle in retroperitoneum.

Retraction Note: Association between serum vitamin D levels and the risk of kidney stone: evidence from a meta-analysis.

The Editors are retracting this article [1] because post-publication peer review has identified multiple errors in the methodology of this meta-analysis, which invalidate the conclusions drawn.

Low-intensity Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Erectile Dysfunction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of low-energy extracorporeal shock wave therapy (LI-ESWT) for erectile dysfunction (ED), a systematic review and meta-analysis was undertaken.

Methods: A comprehensive search of the PubMed, Cochrane Register, and Embase databases to March 2017 was performed for randomized controlled trials reporting on patients with ED treated with LI-ESWT. The International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) and the Erection Hardness Score (EHS) were the most commonly used tools to evaluate the therapeutic efficacy of LI-ESWT.

Mucinous Adenocarcinoma of the Suprapubic Cystostomy Tract without Bladder Involvement.

We present a case of adenocarcinoma developing at the vesicocutaneous edge of a vesicostomy, 8 years after it was created, in a patient who had neurogenic bladder secondary to medullitis. The patient died 6 months after the start of surgery therapy. Although transitional and squamous cell carcinoma of a vesicostomy have been reported, to our knowledge, the presence of adenocarcinoma at the vesicostomy edge without bladder involvement has not been reported previously.