The post-operative morbidity, hospital stay, operating time and the costs of the two procedures were analysed in detail. Both TURP and TVP were found to have the same efficacy in relieving prostatic symptoms and obstruction with a successful surgical outcome in 85% of the men. The mean ...
International consortia such as MAQC have defined standard operating procedures for validating microarray data (Shi et al, 2010). Although advances have been achieved for both technical improvements as well as standardisation, concerns still remain on the clinical usability of classifiers derived from ...
We introduce here a workflow (Fig.4) for detecting alternative splicing events between normal and cancerous samples using algorithms that normalize exon signals to the gene-level signal for each sample, followed by a tissue-specific ANOVA (in MIDAS) or t-test (in the Splicing Index [SI])[19...
Electrosurgical techniques for treating BPH have been in a steady decline in the USA and in other countries since the peak of TURP in 1987 and were reported to be only 39% of procedures in a Medicare population by 2005 [3]. A nationwide survey from Japan, however, found that M-TURP ...
Early treatments for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) centered on open procedures; however these were often bloody and lead to unacceptable mortality and morbidity. The transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) offered another option between watchful waiting and open prostatectomy, though this ...
N ine TURBT, 1 TUVBT, 8 TURP and 6 TUVP were performed during the study. All procedures were carried out with a bipolar device in physiologic saline. We evaluated age, tumor size, prostate volume, pre & post operative serum Na+ and K+ , pre & post operative serum BUN and Cr, ...
Here we described an AS enriched cDNA library method by combining the use of trapping heteroduplex and RNA amplification procedures. The methodology was initially proposed by Watahiki and collaborators [25] and was applied in this study with some modifications to favor its application in clinically...