Correction to Successful treatment of staghorn stones with flexible ureteroscopy and thulium fiber laser (TFL) lithotripsy: initial experience with 32 cases.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and safety of flexible ureteroscopy with thulium fiber laser lithotripsy for management of renal staghorn stones.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-two patients with staghorn stones were recruited. Stone characteristics including: width, length, volume and density were analyzed.

Update on APPEAL, an International Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating Ciprofloxacin Versus Placebo in Patients Undergoing Shockwave Lithotripsy for Urolithiasis.

The blinded APPEAL trial is assessing the effectiveness of antimicrobial prophylaxis in preventing infections after shockwave lithotripsy for urinary stones. This large, pragmatic, international trial will provide trustworthy evidence to inform guidelines and influence global practices.

Successful treatment of staghorn stones with flexible ureteroscopy and thulium fiber laser (TFL) lithotripsy: initial experience with 32 cases.

Purpose: To investigate the efficacy and safety of flexible ureteroscopy with thulium fiber laser lithotripsy for management of renal staghorn stones.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-two patients with staghorn stones were recruited. Stone characteristics including: width, length, volume and density were analyzed.

International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) guideline on staghorn calculi management.

Background: The stone burden based management strategy reported in the guidelines published by different associations is well known for a long time. Staghorn calculi, representing the largest burden and most complex stones, is one of the most challenging cases to practicing urologists in clinical practice. The International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) has released a series of guidelines on the management of urolithiasis.

Optimizing outcome reporting after robotic flexible ureteroscopy for management of renal calculi: Introducing the concept of tetrafecta.

Robotic flexible ureteroscopy (RFURS) has shown encouraging results in terms of stone free rate (SFR) and better ergonomics compared to conventional FURS. However, few studies have reported its outcomes. The goal of this study was to report our initial results of RFURS, furthermore we proposed a novel metrics for composite outcome reporting named tetrafecta.

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy in supine position with less than 24-hour hospital stay; a single-center experience.

Objectives: To report our initial experience of day care percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) with early hospital discharge within less than 24 hours of the procedure.

Patients And Methods: The files of patients treated with PCNL between 1st January 2020 till 31st December 2022 were retrospectively reviewed. Day care PCNL was defined as the discharge of patients either on the same day or within 24 hours after surgery.

Successful management of emphysematous prostatic abscess and concurrent liver abscess: A rare case report.

Emphysematous prostatic abscess (EPA) is a rare condition characterized by gas and abscess accumulation in the prostate. In this case report we report a successfully treated EPA with liver abscess due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in a 49-year-old man. He was admitted with abdominal pain and fever.

The biopolymer ulvan from Ulva fasciata: Extraction towards nanofibers fabrication.

As a biocompatible polymer, ulvan has applications in countless fields. Therefore, the following study intends to extract ulvan from Ulva fasciata, emphasizing its use for biomedical and industrial applications in the manufacture of nanofibrous webs. The extracted ulvan was characterized using FT-IR, DSC, XRD, GPC, and NMR.

Monte Carlo sensitivity analysis of vehicle suspension energy harvesting in frequency domain.

Regenerative shock absorbers (RSAs) have still not entered production lines despite the promising potentials in energy efficiency and emission reduction. Vibration energy harvesting from vehicle dampers has been replicating the dynamics of passive viscous dampers. An accurate frequency-based analysis of the harvestable energy and dynamics for vehicle suspensions under typical operating conditions is essentially needed for designing functional Vibratory Regenerative Dampers (VRDs).

Spinal involvement with calcium pyrophosphate deposition disease in an academic rheumatology center: A series of 37 patients.

Background: Calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate deposition disease (CPPD) has been reported to involve the spine, but few systematic studies have been published.

Objective: To further characterize the spinal involvement with CPPD by a review of CPPD patients hospitalized in a rheumatology department.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed data for patients consecutively admitted with a diagnosis of CPPD in the rheumatology department of Lariboisière hospital in Paris, France over 5 years by using a standardized protocol and electronic case report forms.

Regional view of a Trans-African Drainage System.

Despite the arid to hyperarid climate of the Great Sahara of North Africa, pluvial climates dominated the region. Radar data shed some light on the postulated Trans-African Drainage System and its relationship to active and inactive tributaries of the Nile basin. Interpretations of recent elevation data confirm a source of the river water from the Red Sea highlands did not connect the Atlantic Ocean across Tushka basin, highlands of Uwinate and Darfur, and Chad basin, but northward to the ancestral Nile Delta.

Multimodal neurophysiological and psychometric evaluation among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objective: To determine some of the neuropsychiatric manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) by applying multimodal neurophysiological and psychometric studies.

Patients And Methods: Twenty-six SLE patients were evaluated for neurological and psychiatric disorders and compared with 26 healthy controls matched for age, sex, education, and social class. The severity of SLE disease was assessed.

Increased urinary levels of the leukocyte adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and VCAM-1 in human lupus nephritis with advanced renal histological changes: preliminary findings.

Background: Leukocyte adhesion molecules are important for migration of the inflammatory cells into sites of inflammation. Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) and vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) are members of the immunoglobulin superfamily that are expressed in normal kidney. Their expression is up-regulated in the renal tissue of patients with lupus nephritis (LN).

Subclinical cerebrovascular cognitive function, and mood changes in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of neuropsychiatric disorders, cerebral atherosclerosis in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and explore the relation between transcranial duplex findings of different intracranial vessels with neuropsychiatric affect, and Systemic lupus erythematosus disease activity index (SLEDAI).

Methods: Twenty-six consecutive SLE patients were evaluated for neurological and psychiatric disorders. Another 26 subjects matched with respect to age, sex, education, and socioeconomic status formed the control group.