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Association of the Calcification Score of the Abdominal Aorta, Common Iliac, an...

Background: Vascular calcification is an ever-more-common finding in protocoled pre-transplant imaging in living kidney donors. We intended to explore whether a connection could be found between the Agatston calcification score, prior to kidney donation, and post-donation renal function. Methods: This is a retrospective analysis of 156 living kidney donors who underwent living donor nephrectomy between January ...

Sapheno-Cavernous Shunt: A Vascular Approach In The Treatment Of Ischemic Priapism

Priapism is an urologic emergency defined as an erection that persists for more than 4 hours and is unrelated or lasts beyond sexual stimulation. Ischemic priapism, caused by prolonged venous occlusion within the corporal bodies, works as a compartment syndrome that requires prompt resolution in order to preserve erectile function. We present two cases of ischemic priapism refractory to conventional treatment t...

CT volumetry performs better than nuclear renography in predicting estimated re...

The evaluation of split renal function (SRF) is a critical issue in living kidney donations and can be evaluated using nuclear renography (NR) or computerized tomography (CT), with unclear comparative advantages. We conducted this retrospective study in 193 donors to examine the correlation of SRF assessed by NR and CT volumetry and compared their ability to predict remaining donor renal function at 1 year, thr...

The Role of Liquid Biopsy in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

Prostate cancer is the second most common malignancy in men. The high prevalence of prostate cancer, as well as its relatively indolent clinical course and the emerging therapeutic options, have led to the need to identify biomarkers that may aid in clinical decisions and may reflect response to treatments. “Liquid biopsy” is a generic term applied to the study of biomarkers attributed to tumors that are circul...

Calyceal migration of vascular embolization coils used to treat massive hemorrh...

Remaining kidney volume indexed to weight as a strong predictor of estimated gl...

The donors' estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) after living nephrectomy has been a concern, particularly in donors with smaller kindeys. Therefore, we developed this retrospective observational study in 195 donors to determine the ability remaining kidney volume indexed to weight (RKV/W) to predict eGFR at 1 year through multivariate linear regression and to explore this relationship between annual eGF...

The impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic on the utilisation of emerg...

Objectives: To compare the number of patients attending the Urology Emergency Department (ED) of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Porto (CHUP), as well as their demographic characteristics, the reasons for admission, the clinical severity under the Manchester triage system (MTS), and the need for emergency surgery or hospitalisation, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the equivale...

Urinary Stones in a Horseshoe Kidney with Ipsilateral Ureteral Reimplantation: ...

Horseshoe kidney is a common congenital renal anomaly and is often associated with urinary tract infections and renal calculi as a consequence of anatomical changes that impair the efficient drainage of the urine. The treatment of urinary stones in these cases becomes a challenge due to the underlying anatomical abnormalities requiring an adaptation of the techniques normally used for the treatment of renal lit...