Advanced Reconstruction of Vesicourethral Support (ARVUS) during robot-assisted radical prostatectomy: first independent evaluation and review of other factors influencing 1 year continence outcomes.

Purpose: Anterior and posterior reconstructions of pelvic structures are used during a robot-assisted radical prostatectomy to obtain better continence outcomes. This study was conducted to evaluate the Advanced Reconstruction of Vesicourethral Support (ARVUS), a novel postprostatectomy reconstruction technique.

Methods: The study was designed as a prospective, controlled, partially randomized and blinded experiment.

[Quality of nephrolithiasis surgical treatment - what is it influenced by?].

Introduction: Identifying factors effecting the quality of nephrolithiasis surgical treatment could improve medical care for patients suffering from kidney stone disease. The objective of the article is to identify factors influencing reintervention rate after surgical treatment of kidney stone disease either by percutaneous nephrolitholapaxy or flexible ureterorenoscopy.

Method: A retrospective study was conducted on 149 patients who underwent a surgery for a kidney stone disease at the Urological department of F.

Atmospheric pressure photoionization mass spectrometry of per-O-methylated oligosaccharides related to D-xylans.

Three d-xylan type per-O-methylated trisaccharides with various types of linkages between the d-xylopyranose units were examined by atmospheric pressure photoionization (APPI) mass spectrometry in the positive ion mode. The most interesting feature of a thermospray mass spectrum using the APPI source with UV lamp switched off, is the exclusive production of [M+Na](+) adduct ions. [M+Na](+) cationized ions are the most abundant species in the case of APPI mass spectrometry.

Negative matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight/time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry fragmentation of synthetic analogs of the O-specific polysaccharide of Vibrio cholerae O:1 in the presence of anionic dopants.

Oligosaccharides (tri- to hexamers) that represent terminal epitopes of O-antigens of Vibrio cholerae O:1, serotypes Ogawa and Inaba, have been studied by negative matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight/time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI ToF/ToF MS). The [M - H(+)](-) ions are formed after expulsion of a proton from molecules studied under condition of MALDI MS analysis in the negative mode. Several ammonium salts (chloride, nitrate, hydrogencarbonate and hydrogensulfate) were used as additives to increase the formation of negative ions from saccharides.

Elimination of isocyanate and isothiocyanate molecules at the electrospray ionization ion trap, electrospray ionization quadrupole time-of-flight and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight tandem mass spectrometry fragmentation of sodium cationized brassitin, brassinin and their glycosides.

Fragmentation mechanisms of phytoalexin analogs, including brassitin and brassinin and their glucosylated analogs, have been studied by electrospray (ESI) ion trap (IT) multistage (MS(n), n = 1-4) mass spectrometry, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI ToF/ToF) and ESI-Q/ToF tandem mass spectrometry techniques. At the fragmentation of sodium adducts a hitherto not described process has been elucidated The proposed mechanism of this process includes cyclization of the brassitin and brassinin cationized adducts through a six-membered cycle of the molecules and the elimination of isocyanate or isothiocyanate from the thio- or dithiocarbamate moiety, giving rise to [M + Na - 43](+) or [M + Na - 59](+) adducts. The elimination of NH=C=O or NH=C=S molecules has been confirmed by the high resolution measurement of the elemental composition of the ions produced and quantum-chemical calculations of the six-membered transition state.