Vol 14, No 2 (February 28, 2025): Translational Andrology and Urology

Editorial Commentary

Breaking barriers in stress urinary incontinence care: TAS-303 as a game-changer in pharmacological innovation
Matthias May, Martina Schleder, Anton Kravchuk, Ingmar Wolff, Stephan Siepmann, Kay-Patrick Braun, Christian Gilfrich
Evaluating local anesthetic strategies in ambulatory urologic surgery: insights from the Baby ORIOLES randomized clinical trial
Shayan Smani, Nishan Sohoni, Aleksandra Golos, Peter Palencia, Olamide Olawoyin, Soum D. Lokeshwar
Reassessment of approaches to prostate biopsy in the era of magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy: insights from the ProBE-PC study
Yoichiro Tohi, Takuma Kato, Mikio Sugimoto
Prophylactic Use of Biologic Mesh in Ileal Conduit (PUBMIC trial)
Nikolaos Pyrgidis, Gerald B. Schulz, Christian G. Stief, Philipp Weinhold, Julian Marcon
Radiation-free ureteroscopy: risky business or a safe alternative?
Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Arman Tsaturyan, Esteban Emiliani, Lazaros Tzelves, Christian Beisland, Øyvind Ulvik
Music as an adjunct to analgesics for improved anxiety and pain during prostate biopsy
Sung Chul Kam, Yu Seob Shin, Ho Seok Chung

Original Article

Correlation of renal function with intra-patient variability of tacrolimus concentration among recipients of renal transplants: a 10-year study
Yan Qin, Yao Li, Tienan Feng, Hui Pan, Jiayong Li, Fang Zhang, Yong Liu, Jianxin Qiu, Bo Sun
Clinical characteristics and prognostic factors of low metastatic burden prostate cancer with non-regional lymph node metastases: role of cytoreductive radiotherapy?
Lixin Mai, Ruiqi Liu, Xinyue Zhang, Qiwen Pan, Lingling Cai, Wufei Cao, Yonghong Li, Fangjian Zhou, Jianming Gao, Yang Liu, Liru He
The power of the map: testicular mapping to guide surgical sperm retrieval in patients with non-obstructive azoospermia
Arash Amighi, Alvaro Santamaria, Theodore Crisostomo-Wynne, Marah C. Hehemann, Sarah Holt, Charles H. Muller, Tristan M. Nicholson, Thomas J. Walsh
Testosterone therapy in patients with locoregional prostate cancer treated with prior androgen deprivation therapy and radiation: a retrospective single center review
Mostafa Aglan, Yixin Kong, Brendan Connell
Causal associations of inflammatory cytokines and urinary stones: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study
Huan Yao, Dan Yu, Qingyun He, Xiaoya Ning
Application of decellularized tilapia skin in rabbit urethral reconstruction: an experimental study
Wei Huang, Hongying Zheng, Jiaming Wu, Lingfei Wang, Huaqiong Li, Feng Wen, Congde Chen
Survival analysis comparing bladder preservation techniques in octogenarians with muscle-invasive bladder cancer
Arjun Pon Avudaiappan, Pushan Prabhakar, Benjamin Fleischmann, Muni Rubens, Rohan Garje, Manuel Ozambela Jr, Christopher Gomez, Murugesan Manoharan
Descriptive report of complex cystic renal mass fluid cytology: a cross-sectional analysis
Francis A. Jefferson, Tal D. Cohen, Gang Zheng, Sounak Gupta, Matthew S. Lee, Halle E. Foss, Amber Schneider, Valerie Straubmuller, Abhinav Khanna, George K. Chow, Theodora A. Potretzke, Aaron M. Potretzke
Association between the American Heart Association’s new “Life’s Essential 8” metrics and urinary incontinence: a cross-sectional study of NHANES data from 2011 to 2018
Yisheng Ji, Peng Ji, Runmin Ding, Pei Lu, Zijie Wang, Pengfei Shao, Min Gu
In silico research of coagulation- and fibrinolysis-related genes for predicting prognosis of clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Ming-Hao Deng, Xue-Wen Yang, Yu-Ming Zhou, Lv-Zhong Xie, Tao Zou, Ji-Gen Ping
Insomnia and prostate cancer risk: insights from NHANES and gene correlation analysis
Shukun Liu, Kai Yu, Changtao Ye, Jinrui Li, Fan Bu, Ji Lu
Seminal plasma PGK2 serves as a predictive biomarker for post-varicocelectomy sperm motility improvement in varicocele subjects
Cheng Yang, Jianxiong Li, Shenghao Wu, Cundong Liu, Ranran Zhou, Shan-Chao Zhao
The fate of the urethra after artificial urinary sphincter cuff erosion: a review of 98 patients
Jeffrey C. Loh-Doyle, Jeffery S. Lin, David A. Ginsberg, Emily Markarian, Ryan Davis, Leo R. Doumanian, Stuart D. Boyd
Exploration of a prognostic signature for mitochondria-related genes and the therapeutic prospects of vorinostat in clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Wenhui Li, Huan Pan, Bangwei Zhou, Yifang Cao, Bin Shen, Nan Li, Yao Zhang, Yi He, Jing Jin, Lili Shi, Jinlai Gao
Associations of triglyceride glucose-related parameters with kidney stones: a cross-sectional study from NHANES 2007–2020
Hao Yu, Jian Wu
Ejaculatory abstinence and its impacts on within- and between-individual variations in semen parameters of 9,595 Vietnamese men
Bac Hoai Nguyen, Hoa Quoc Tran, Quan Minh Pham, Kien Van Tran
Super-high levels of serum intact-parathyroid hormone and bone turnover markers descended with recuperating allograft function and a short-term high-dose methylprednisolone during preoperative period of renal transplantation: a retrospective cohort study
Wenqing Xie, Junhao Lv, Chuncun Wei, Zhechi He, Suya Wang
Identification of a C2H2 zinc finger-related lncRNA prognostic signature and its association with the immune microenvironment in clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Ting Tian, Cheng Shen, Łukasz Zapała, Xingxing Fang, Bing Zheng
Neourethra reconstruction using an anterior bladder wall flap for the treatment of complex urethral obliteration and absence
Wei-Dong Zhu, Hui Guo, Hong Xie, Lu-Jie Song, Yue-Min Xu

Review Article

Status study of clinical application of ureteral access sheath in urology: a narrative review
Changxiang Shu, Jun Liu
DNA methylation alterations in prostate cancer: from diagnosis to treatment
Francesco Barletta, Marco Bandini, Giuseppe Ottone Cirulli, Paolo Zaurito, Roberta Lucianò, Francesca Giannese, Giulia Maria Scotti, Caterina Oneto, Nazario Tenace, Federico Scarfò, Marco J. Morelli, Dejan Lazarevic, Francesco De Cobelli, Maurilio Ponzoni, Claudio Doglioni, Giovanni Tonon, Giorgio Gandaglia, Francesco Montorsi, Alberto Briganti