ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Thomas Chi and colleagues developed a method of screening single gene knockdown candidates for their ability to prevent the formation of urinary stones utilizing Drosophila.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - The proto-oncogene c-MYC, located on chromosome 8q, can be up-regulated through gain of 8q causing alteration in biology of renal cell carcinoma (RCC). The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of chromosome 8q gain in our renal cancer tumor registry and to correlate findings with tumor histology, grade, cancer specific survival (CSS), and overall survival (OS) in clear and papillary RCCs.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Inflammatory markers are known to predict outcomes in patients with hepatic, gastric, pancreatic, and kidney cancers. As such, authors sought to confirm initial data regarding the prognostic relevance of preoperative NLR for OS in patients undergoing RC for urothelial carcinoma of bladder.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - As the urologic community works to embrace wide-spread and regular use of perioperative chemical venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis for inpatients, emerging data reveal that a large proportion of symptomatic VTE events after abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery occur following hospital discharge.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - This presentation provided results from the Vanguard trial, a randomized double-blinded study looking at whether the use of solifenacin succinate after robotic radical prostatectomy resulted in improved urinary continence rates. It is important to note that this study was sponsored by Astellas.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Litholink Corporation has recently developed a solid-phase assay, cystine capacity, that is thought to be a more reliable estimate of stone-forming potential than cystine concentration. To date, the recommended capacity target of > 150 mg/L has not been directly correlated with clinical stone recurrence.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Recent advances in imaging technology allow to precisely characterize different malignancies.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Usually preoperative urinalysis (UA) and urine culture are obtained before percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), and positive UC should be adequately treated prior to percutaneous surgery.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Patients undergoing PCNL are usually hospitalized for at least a day following the surgical procedure. Andonian and colleagues presented their initial and largest in the world series of ambulatory PCNL experience.

ORLANDO, FL USA (UroToday.com) - Urinary sepsis following percutaneous nephrolothitomy (PCNL) is a potentially devastating complication that often occurs despite preoperative evaluation and treatment of urine cultures (UCx). The presence of infectious microorganisms harbored in urinary stones are the main cause, which is inferred from stone composition, most commonly by the presence of struvite.