Introduction. Urine pH is one of the key indicators to assess the activity of lithogenesis processes in urolithiasis patients. Urine pH is one of the significant markers signaling the presence of pathological changes both in the body as a whole and in the urinary system in particular. On the other...
Introduction. The modern sedentery lifestyle, high-calorie diet and comorbidities make new challenges in the renal stone disease management. The best policy to decrease residual stone rate is the combined use of schock wave lithotripsy (SWL), intracorporeal stone treatment and conservative therapy...
Introduction. The urolithiasis prevalence is growing steadily in almost all regions of the world, including in the Russian Federation. The study of the lithogenic substances.metabolism is of paramount importance for the appointment of competent and adequate urolithiasis treatment.
Aim. The study...
Introduction. Application of endourological interventions is the first step for treatment number of diseases of urinary tract. However, experience has shown, to date short-term and long-term results occasionally are worse for patients pretreated with minimally invasive methods, then open surgery....
Introduction. Currently, prostate cancer is one of the main problems in oncourology. The development of the health-care industry has increased the quality of treatment. This increases the percentage of detection of localized forms of prostate cancer. Recent advances in MR-tomography does possible...
Introduction. Ureteral stents are widely used in urological practice. However, stent placement carries a high risk of complications, the most serious of which are incrustation and infectious biofilms formation on the stent surfaces. These complications limit the optimal period of stent functioning...
Objective. Prostate cancer (PCa) is a hormone-sensitive tumor, therefore, androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) is one of the options in the treatment of this widespread disease. ADT aims to block the synthesis or action of androgens that stimulate the proliferation of prostate tissue through...
Introduction. Various diseases and injuries of the central or peripheral nervous system can lead to the neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD) development. There is no information on the number of patients with neurogenic bladder in the general population, which leads to an...
Introduction. High-risk prostate cancer (PC) is a life-threatening disease prone to progression and metastatic spread. These patients represent a heterogeneous population with a varying treatment efficacy. Currently, the clinical recommendations of leading associations consider radical...
Introduction. The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) had a significant impact on the global healthcare sector and provoked the current oncological care standards revision, including the standards in urological oncology. All changes have affected directly the elective outpatient and inpatient surgical...