December 01, 2015 Archives - Renal and Urology News

Elderly LVH Patients Experience Rapid Kidney Function Decline

SGLT-2 Inhibitors for Type 2 Diabetes: Renal and Urinary Issues

December 14, 2015

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Endovascular Treatment Beats tPA Alone for Stroke Patients

Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Increased Carotid IMT, Early-Stage CKD Linked

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Jody A. Charnow

December 11, 2015

Early-stage chronic kidney disease(CKD) may be an independent riskfactor for increased carotid intima-mediathickness (IMT), a biomarker ofatherosclerosis, according to findingspublished online in the Journal ofStroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases. In a study of 3,629 individualswithout clinical cardiovascular diseaseat baseline, Yu Wu, PhD, of BeijingTiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University,Beijing, China, and colleaguesfound that subjects with an estimatedglomerular…

Bladder Cancer

Pure Urothelial Tumors May Predict Better NAC Response

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Jody A. Charnow

December 11, 2015

Patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) are more likely to have acomplete pathologic response (pT0) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) ifthey have pure urothelial carcinomas rather than cancers with variant histologicfeatures or mixed tumors, a study found. Venkata K. Pokuri, MD, of Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY, andcolleagues studied 50 robotic cystectomy patients (median…

Renal Stone Removal Helps Some Patients With Recurrent UTIs

Commentary

Artificial Kidney Technology Moves Forward

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Jody A. Charnow

December 10, 2015

If ESRD patients face increasing difficulty getting a kidney transplant in coming years, they may see an artificial kidney as the next best alternative.

Prostate Cancer

MRI Predicts Prostate Cancer Death Risk After Prostatectomy

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Jody A. Charnow

December 10, 2015

Preoperative magnetic resonanceimaging (MRI) may be useful in predictingprostate cancer-specific mortality(PCSM) after radical prostatectomy(RP), according to Korean researchers. Sungmin Woo, MD, and colleaguesat the Seoul National University studied318 patients who underwent MRI followedby RP. After a median follow-upof 104 months, 11 patients (3.5%) diedfrom prostate cancer. Of the 318 patients, 104(32.7%) had clinically significant canceron…