Introduction: The level of sperm DNA integrity is a useful predictor of blastocyst quality and pregnancy rate. The high level of oxidative stress reaction (ROS) may cause sperm DNA damage. Antioxidant therapy might improve sperm quality and ART outcomes. The literature evidence of efficacy of...
Testosterone is one of the major male sex hormones related to androgens. Its adequate concentrations are extremely important at all stages of development, formation and maintenance of vital activity of the male body. Testosterone has a wide range of physiological functions, affecting various...
Introduction. According to the clinical recommendations of the Russian society of urologists and of the European and American urological associations, it was determined that the therapy aimed at removal of urinary stones combined with application of alpha-blockers during or immediately after...
Introduction. Staghorn stones have a special growth pattern, in which the processes of the calculus gradually fill the internal cavities of the calyceal system of the kidney, which ultimately leads to a decrease in the function of this organ. Like other urinary stones, staghorn stones are...
Introduction: the aim of our study was to obtain relevant characterization of patients with stones in the bladder and also to evaluate the results of endoscopic treatment in the conditions of a modern urological clinic.
Materials and methods: the prospective study included data of 79 patients, who...
Introduction: Currently, the treatment standard of patients with renal masses and a nonfunctional kidney are endovideo-surgical operations, among which the least invasive are laparoendoscopic single-site (LESS) operations.
Objective: Studying of the LESS nephrectomy (LESS-N) learning curve, its...
More than 15 thousand new cases of renal cell carcinoma are registered annually in the world. This is 3% in the structure of the general oncological morbidity of the population and leads it to the third place among oncourological pathologies. The introduction and development of new targeted and...
Study objective: to study the effectiveness of complex monitoring of the kidney function, based on biochemical and radionuclide (RN) methods; to assess the diagnostic value of biomarkers of chronic kidney disease (CKD) at an early stage, to determine their association with RN parameters and...
Objective. Experimental study of the effect of sodium hypochlorite (SH) on renal function and hormonal status intact rats, influencing the composition of the final urine.
Materials and methods. The study was performed on 35 white mongrel rats weighing 249-450 grams. The group of intact animals...
The guidelines for treatment of prostate cancer using the HDR-brachytherapy approved during the expert meeting on are presented in this article. The references are given to the guidelines for the technology of prostate brachytherapy. The questions of the diagnostics and patient selection for HDR-...