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Open Journal of Urology is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in urology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for researchers and academics all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in urology related problems. All manuscripts must be…
Abdullah Demirtas, Numan Baydilli, Nurettin Sahin, Oguz Ekmekcioglu, Deniz Demirci, Atila Tatlisen
Objective: To examine the effect of warm and cold ischemia on functions of the operated kidney in cases with a normal contralateral kidney undergoing nephron sparing surgery. Methods: This study enrolled 40 patients with a normal contralateral kidney and with…
Jens Cordes, Felix Nguyen, Wolfgang Pinkowski, Dieter Jocham
Background: Complications after endoscopic retrieval of kidney and ureter stones are obviously related to the size of the stones as well as the experience of the surgeon and other factors. During the procedure it is sometimes difficult for surgeons to estimat…
Abdullah Demirtas, Emre Can Akinsal, Oguz Ekmekcioglu
This study was investigated whether parental consanguinity in males has an effect on or relationship with some infer tile subgroups and some semen and hormone parameters. The charts of 2651 infertile males were evaluated retrospec tively for parental consangu…
Hidenori Zakoji, Hideki Kobayashi, Mitsuharu Yoshiyama, Masayuki Takeda, Isao Araki
Purpose: Large conductance, voltage- and Ca 2+ -activated K + (BK) channel is thought to have a central role to regulate urinary bladder smooth muscle functions, and its dysfunction may lead to increase of urination frequency and overac tive bladder. The pres…
Srijit Banerjee, Sudhanshu Chitale, Katherine Burnand, Neil Burgess
Objectives: We present a retrospective analysis of follow-up strategy adapted by different clinician in managing UTUC cases. Methods: Case notes of 83 patients undergoing nephroureterectomy for UTUC at our institute were selected. Their follow-up pattern and…
Nuria Landwehr, Manfred Georg Krukemeyer, Wolfgang Wagner
The irradiation of the rectum cancer occurs in many institutes by using a rectum balloon in order to reduce the mobility of the target organ and to distance the rectum from the target organ. The objective is to reduce side effects quantitatively as well as qu…
Takumi Takeuchi, Koichi Sakazume, Akiko Tonooka, Mami Hattori, Masayoshi Zaitsu, Yuta Takeshima, Koji Mikami, Toshimasa Uekusa
High mobility group box (HMGB) proteins are nuclear nonhistone chromosomal proteins that bend DNA, bind preferentially to distorted DNA structures, and promote the assembly of site-specific DNA binding proteins. Recent reports indicate that HMGB1 has a dual f…
Edwin D. Lephart
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is the pathological cellular progression of glandular proliferation associated with aging. Current available treatment options for BPH have limitations and various adverse effects. Equol is a polyphenolic/isoflavonoid molecu…
Felix Grases, Otakar Söhnel, Isabel Gomila
Objective: The aim of this paper was to assess the relationships among chemical, phase and structural composition and etiopathogenic factors of non-infectious phosphate calculi formed in patients with low and high urinary phosphate concentrations, and to char…
Andres Jan Schrader
A number of very interesting studies presented this year at the ASCO (American Society of Clinical Oncology) Annual Meeting, the ASCO-GU (ASCO Genitourinary Cancers) Spring Meeting, and the ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Annual Congress could st…
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