Mini-invasive robotic assisted pyelolithotomy: Comparison between the transperitoneal and retroperitoneal approach.

Objective: To compare the retroperitoneal with the transperitoneal approach in a series of patients underwent to robotic-assisted pyelolithotomy (RP).

Materials And Methods: From January 2015 to December 2018 we evaluated 20 patients subjected to robotic pyelolithotomy; 11 patients were treated with retroperitoneal approach (RRP) and 9 with transperitoneal approach (TRP). For each patient intra and perioperative data were recorded: operative time (OT), blood loss (BL), length of hospital stay (LOS), stone clearance, post-operative complications and time to remove the drain.

Peri-Operative Outcomes after Open and Robot-Assisted Radical Cystectomy by Using an Advanced Bipolar Seal and Cut Technology (Caiman®): A Prospective, Comparative, and Multi-Institutional Study.

Objective: To report and compare the peri-operative outcomes of patients undergoing open (ORC) and robotic-assisted radical cystectomy (RARC) for bladder cancer performed with a radiofrequency seal and cut device (Caiman®).

Materials And Methods: Data of patients undergoing ORC or RARC between January 2015 and March 2016 at 6 Italian institutions were prospectively recorded and analyzed. Thirty-and 90-day complications were stratified according to the Martin's criteria and graded according to the Clavien-Dindo classification.

Minimally Invasive Pyelolithotomy: Comparison of Robot-assisted and Laparoscopic Techniques.

Objectives: To compare the perioperative and short-term outcomes of robotic pyelolithotomy (RP) and laparoscopic pyelolithotomy (LP) for the treatment of renal stones.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively evaluated 39 patients who underwent robotic or laparoscopic pyelolithotomy from January 2015 to December 2018.

Results: The preoperative characteristics of the two groups were comparable.

Management of self-inflicted orchiectomy in psychiatric patient. Case report and non-systematic review of the literature.

Introduction: Self-inflicted orchidectomy and auto-castration, also known as "Eshmun complex" is a rare phenomenon. The aim of our study it to present the management of a patient who performed a self orchiectomy and propose a non-systematic review of literature about self-orchiectomy.

Material And Method: A 27-years old male Patient with psychiatric disorder was admitted to our ward to have been cutted his scrotum with scissors and cut away his left testicle causing active bleeding from the left spermatic artery.

"In-bore" MRI-guided Prostate Biopsy Using an Endorectal Nonmagnetic Device: A Prospective Study of 70 Consecutive Patients.

Introduction: We investigated the diagnostic performance of in-bore endorectal magnetic resonance imaging-guided biopsy (MRI-GB) with a 1.5-T MRI scanner using a 32-channel coil in patients with suspected prostate cancer (PCa).

Patients And Methods: Seventy patients with ≥ 1 suspicious area found on the preliminary multiparametric MRI scan were enrolled.

Differing risk of cancer death among patients with pathologic T3a renal cell carcinoma: identification of risk categories according to fat infiltration and renal vein thrombosis.

Objectives: The study objectives were to evaluate the prognostic impact of fat infiltration and renal vein thrombosis in patients with pT3a renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and to identify new prognostic groups.

Material And Methods: We analyzed 122 consecutive patients with pT3a who underwent radical nephrectomy for RCC between 2000 and 2011 at the University of Bologna. Cancer-specific survival (CSS) rates were estimated using Kaplan-Meier survival curves; univariable and multivariable analyses were performed with Cox analysis.

A patient with pancreas divisum, recurrent acute pancreatitis, and homozygosity for the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator-associated protein 5T allele.

Mutations in the gene encoding the cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator (CFTR) have been reported to increase the risk of recurrent acute pancreatitis in patients with pancreas divisum. We assessed the CFTR gene in a young male patient with pancreas divisum and recurrent acute pancreatitis. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography and computed tomography revealed that the patient had pancreas divisum, with an enlarged and tortuous pancreatic duct; he also had positive results from the cystic fibrosis sweat test.

[An evaluation of the therapeutic activity and tolerance of ST-679 in patients with osteoarthritis at different sites. A controlled double-blind study vs tolmetin].

A multicentered study was carried out, under double-blind conditions, on 160 elderly patients afflicted with differently localized symptomatic osteoarthritis, for the purpose of evaluating the therapeutical efficacy and tolerability of ST-679 (per-os at a dose of 1200 mg pro die in 80 patients) and to compare them with those of tolmetin (per os at a dose of 1200 mg pro die in 80 patients). It was demonstrated that ST-679 was significantly active on all of the clinical parameters of the illness already recorded after a month of treatment. ST-679 was always excellently tolerated as shown by the scarce incidence of adverse reactions.

Role of acetyl-L-carnitine in the treatment of cognitive deficit in chronic alcoholism.

Preliminary data are reported from a multicentred double-blind placebo-controlled study concerned with the effects of acetyl-L-carnitine (LAC) on some cognitive deficits of at least one month-abstinent alcoholics. Fifty-five patients, showing impaired performance in at least two out of six mnemonic, praxic and verbal tasks, were randomly assigned to either LAC 2 g/day or a placebo group. They were tested by means of a neuropsychological battery exploring the areas of memory, constructional praxia, deductive-logical functions and language.

Lethal effect of the serotonin-xylocaineR association in ganglion-blocked rats.

In rats anestetized with urethane and under ganglionic blockade by hexamethonium (20 mg/kg, i.v.), the i.

[Sensitization of bradycardia during final hypotension induced by serotonin in rats: effect of lidocaine].

It was studied the sensibilizing effect of lidocaine (8.5 mg/kg, i.v.