Improving Renal & Urology Patient Care

Transplant Program Biorepository Poised to Promote Research

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December 12, 2012

The Cleveland Clinic has initiated the collection and storage of biospecimens from kidney and pancreas transplant recipients.

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A Way to Reduce Discard Rates of Kidneys with Capsular Damage

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Stuart M. Flechner, MD

Islam Ghoneim, MD

Charles S. Modlin, Jr., MD, MBA, FACS

November 19, 2012

More than 100,000 patients are on the kidney transplant waiting list and the increasing number of patients without living donor options underscore why it is important to decrease the discard rate of deceased donor kidneys available for transplantation.

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Metabolic Abnormalities Following Urinary Diversion

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Jeffrey J. Tomaszewski, MD, and David Y.T. Chen, MD

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

November 1, 2012

Radical cystectomy with urinary diversion including neobladder remains the standard of care for muscle-invasive bladder cancer.

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Robotic NSS Without Ischemia for Exophytic Small Renal Masses

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Anthony N. Avallone, MD

August 30, 2012

As nephron-sparing surgery has become widely accepted, increasing emphasis has been placed on reducing surgical morbidity.

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Cleveland Clinic No. 1 for Urology, Nephrology

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Jody A. Charnow

August 29, 2012

Cleveland Clinic’s nephrology and urology programs, which are housed at the Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute, are each ranked no. 1 in the nation.

Image courtesy of Fox Chase Cancer Center.

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RCC or Dialysis: Risk Stratification and Assessment

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Serge Ginzburg, MD

Robert Uzzo, MD, MBA, FACS

August 1, 2012

Risk-stratifying patients requires a urologist’s understanding of the natural history of disease, competing risks, and morbidities of interventions.

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Urologists and Nephrologists Take Team Approach to ‘Meaningful Use’

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Courtney Ellis

J. Stephen Jones, MD, FACS

Wendy O'Connell

June 1, 2012

Few physicians considered returning to paper prescriptions based on the efficiency, accuracy, and legibility of e-prescribing.

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Page Kidney Resulting in New Onset Hypertension

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Diana L. Deitzer, DO

Marc A. Pohl, MD

May 1, 2012

A 55-year-old Caucasian woman initially presented to one of Cleveland Clinic’s regional outpatient urology clinics with gross hematuria and an obstructing right ureteral stone.

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Sperm Banking To Remote Sites

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Ashok Agarwal, PhD

Edmund Sabanegh, MD

April 1, 2012

Infertility is a stressful experience for many couples, a situation made particularly difficult by the need to produce a semen sample in a clinical setting.

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Sickle Cell Trait and Medullary Renal Carcinoma

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Surafel Gebreselassie, MD

Matthew N. Simmons, MD

April 1, 2012

Since the discovery of Hemoglobin S (HbS), it has been known that the abnormal polymerization of deoxy-HbS is the main cause for vaso-occlusive crisis involving many organs including the kidneys in sickle cell disease (SCD).

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