Objective: To investigate the efficacy and safety of intelligent temperature-pressure-controlled flexible ureteroscopy combined with negative-pressure suction sheath lithotripsy in the treatment of upper urinary tract stones ≤2.5 cm. Methods: The clinical data of 225 patients with ≤2.5 cm upper urinary tract stones treated with this surgical method in our department during Aug. 2023 and Jul. 2024 were retrospectively analyzed. The patients were divided into the dual-control group (n=36) and conventional group (n=189) according to whether or not the intelligent temperature and pressure control device was used during operation. In the dual-control group，the intraoperative temperature and pressure in the renal pelvis were monitored and controlled in real time by the temperature and pressure sensors distributed at the end of the ureteral soft lens. The perioperative parameters，stone-removal rate，complication rate and renal function were compared between the two groups. Results: All operations were successfully completed in both groups. The postoperative procalcitonin (PCT) level [(22.75±5.85) ng/L vs. (29.08±6.60) ng/L，P=0.001]，difference in the white blood cell (WBC) level [(0.24±2.12)×10 cells/L vs. (1.19±2.17)×10 cells/L，P=0.016]，incidence of fever (2.8% vs. 16.9%，P=0.028) and overall complication rate (5.6% vs. 19.6%，P=0.042) were significantly lower in the dual-control group than in the conventional group，while the stone-clearance rate was slightly higher (88.9% vs. 82.5%，P=0.346)，with no significant difference. Conclusion: For upper urinary tract stones ≤2.5 cm，intelligent temperature-pressure-controlled ureteroscopy combined with negative-pressure suction sheath lithotripsy has a satisfactory stone-removal rate and a low rate of complications，which is worthy of clinical promotion.

【Objective】 To establish a nomogram model for predicting the risk of positive prostate biopsy in MRI-negative patients, and to perform the internal validation. 【Methods】 We retrospectively analyzed the clinical data of 197 MRI-negative patients who underwent prostate biopsy at our hospital, analyzed the independent predictors of positive prostate biopsy with univariate and multivariate logistic regression analysis, constructed the nomogram model and conducted internal validation. 【Results】 Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed age (P=0.003), digital rectal examination (DRE)(P=0.005), total prostate-specific antigen (tPSA) (P=0.001) and prostate volume (PV)(P<0.001) were independent risk factors of MRI-negative but prostate biopsy-positive results. The nomogram model based on all variables was established. The area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) was 0.862, which was greater than that of tPSA (AUC=0.739), PV(AUC=0.711) and DRE(AUC=0.666) (all P<0.05). The average absolute error of the model was 1.1% after 500 internal resampling, indicating that the prediction of positive prostate biopsy was consistent with the actual situation. 【Conclusion】 The age, DRE, tPSA and PV were independent predictors of positive prostate biopsy in MRI-negative patients. The nomogram model has a good prediction performance.

Objective:To investigate the difference of 24h urinary metabolic abnormalities in patients with different subtypes of calcium oxalate stones.Methods:The clinical data of 120 patients with simple calcium oxalate stones admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from March 2018 to May 2020 were retrospectively analyzed.There were 90 males (75.0%) and 30 females (25.0%), with the age of (49.1 ±13.5) years old, and body mass index (BMI) of (24.6 ±3.0) kg/m 2. There were 23 cases of diabetes mellitus (19.2%), 8 cases of coronary heart disease (7.0%), 36 cases of hypertension (30.0%) and 45 cases of gastrointestinal diseases (37.5%). There were 11 cases (9.2%) of low pH, 54 cases (45.0%) of hyperoxaluria, 19 cases (15.8%) of hypercalcemia, 72 cases (60.0%) of hypocitrouria, 3 cases (2.5%) of hyperuricuria, and 18 cases (15.0%) of hyperuricemia. In the 120 patients, 79 underwent ureteral soft lithotripsy, 28 underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy, and 13 underwent extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The patients were divided into calcium oxalate monohydrate stone group (COM group) and calcium oxalate dihydrate stone group (COD group). The general clinical data and urinary metabolic data of the two groups were compared. Independent risk factors for stone formation of the two groups were analyzed. Results:There were 120 cases in this study, with 90 cases in COM group and 30 cases in COD group. Urinary oxalic acid in COM group and COD group was 41.3 (30.1, 54.2) mg and 34.1 (26.6, 39.9) mg, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant ( P=0.01). The incidence of hyperoxaluria was 52.2% (47 cases) and 23.3% (7 cases), respectively, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01). Urinary calcium in COD group and COM group was 6.8 (6.1, 8.8) mmol and 4.0 (2.3, 5.2) mmol, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01). The incidence of hypercalcemia was 43.3% (13 cases) and 6.7% (6 cases), respectively, the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01). The urinary phosphate in COM group and COD group was 2 063.5 (1 688.8, 2 803.2) mg and 1 231.7 (766.7, 1 740.9) mg, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.01). The serum uric acid level in COM group and COD group was (343.0±111.7)μmol/L and (297.6±77.6)μmol/L, respectively, and the difference was statistically significant ( P<0.05). There were no significant differences in term of age, gender, body mass index, diabetes mellitus, coronary heart disease, hypertension, gastrointestinal disease, parathyroid hormone (PTH), hemoglobin, serum creatinine, serum potassium, serum phosphorus, serum calcium, serum sodium, stone load and side between the two groups ( P>0.05). There were no significant differences in urinary sodium, urinary phosphorus, urinary magnesium, urinary citric acid and urinary uric acid levels between the two groups ( P>0.05). Binary Logistic regression analysis showed that hyperoxaluria was an independent risk factor for COM patients ( OR=4.859, P<0.01). Increased urinary phosphoric acid level was an independent risk factor for COM patients ( OR=1.001, P<0.01). Hypercalcemia was an independent risk factor for COD patients ( OR=27.856, P<0.01). Conclusions:COM calculus patients have higher urinary oxalic acid and urinary phosphoric acid levels, and are more likely to have hyperoxaluria. COD calculus patients have higher urinary calcium levels and are more likely to develop hypercalcemia.

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Objective:To explore risk factors for the efficacy and complications of surgery for infectious kidney stones.Methods:The clinical data of 75 patients with infection kidney stones from January 2015 to May 2022 were retrospectively analyzed. This group of 75 patients, were 23 to 74 of age, with mean of (49.3±10.4) years old. Among them, 25 were male and 50 were female. The mean diameter of the stones was (5.4±2.7)cm. There were 29 cases of staghorn stones, 25 cases of multiple kidney stones, and 21 cases of single kidney stones. Preoperative renal function measuring by creatinine was 68 (51, 68)μmol/L. Twenty-five patients (33.3%) were combined with comorbidities, including diabetes mellitus, neurogenic bladder, spinal cord injury, cerebrovascular disease, or urinary anatomical malformation. All the patients underwent surgical treatment, including percutaneous nephrolithotomy, flexible ureteroscopy, and combined endoscopy. Postoperatively, urosepsis was diagnosed according to the SOFA score. One month after the operation, CT or KUB were re-examined to evaluate the efficacy of the operation. Multivariate logistic regression was used to analyze the risk factors for surgical efficacy, complications and sepsis.Results:All 75 patients undewent successful surgery. The overall stone clearance rate was 64%, and the single-factor analysis showed that the stone diameter ( P=0.001) and stone type ( P=0.002) were the impacting factors of the surgical efficacy of infectious kidney stone. Multivariate analysis showed that stone type ( OR=2.55, 95% CI 1.00-6.51, P=0.049) was an independent risk factor influencing the efficacy of surgery for infectious kidney stones. A total of 24 cases experienced surgical complications after surgery, including 18 cases of infection, 3 cases of bleeding, and 3 cases of subcapsular hemorrhage, and the complication rate was 32.0%(24/75). Univariate analysis showed that hydronephrosis ( P=0.039), comorbidities ( P=0.009), and preoperative renal function ( P=0.008) were risk factors for postoperative complications of infectious nephrolithiasis, and multivariate analysis showed that comorbidities ( OR=0.21, 95% CI 0.05-0.90, P=0.029) were independent risk factors for postoperative complications. The incidence of postoperative urosepsis was 6.7%, and univariate analysis did not find any risk factors for sepsis. Conclusions:Stone type is a factor that affects the efficacy of surgery for infectious kidney stones, and comorbidities are factors that affect surgical complications.

Objective:To investigate the pathogenic bacteria profiles in preoperative urine bacterial cultures of patients with infected kidney stones and use antibacterial drugs to prevent recurrence.Methods:The data of 79 cases with infected kidney stones admitted to the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from January 2017 to July 2021 were retrospectively analyzed, among whom 29 (36.7%) were male and 50 (63.3%) were female. The age ranged from 17-75 years, with a median age of 49.0 (40, 55) years. Fifteen cases (19.0%) combined hypertension, 13 cases (16.5%) combined diabetes mellitus, and 3 cases (3.8%) combined with cardiovascular disease. Fifty-one cases (64.6%) were diagnosed with cast infectious stones. All patients underwent surgical lithotripsy, and postoperative review of the urological computerized tomography (CT) revealed no residual stones defined as complete lithotripsy, and postoperative oral medication was continued to control infection and prevent stone recurrence. According to post-hospitalization compliance, patients were divided into high and low compliance groups. The high compliance group consisted of patients who returned to the hospital regularly for routine urinalysis and urine bacterial culture after discharge, followed the doctor's prescription for standardized antibacterial drug therapy, and complied with urease inhibitor therapy for ≥6 months. The low compliance group included patients who did not take sensitive antimicrobial drugs regularly and/or were unable to adhere to the medication even after the reduction of vinblastine due to adverse events such as tremor, palpitations, headache, anemia, or gastrointestinal discomfort. The recurrence of stones at 3, 6 and 12 months of follow-up was compared between the two groups.Results:Of the 79 cases in this group, 56(70.9%) were completely clear of stone after surgery. Thirty-three cases (41.8%) presented positive in preoperative urine bacterial culture, and the most common causative organism was Aspergillus oddus in 17 cases (21.5%), followed by Escherichia coli in 8 cases (10.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae in 3 cases (3.8%). Among the 17 positive cases of A. oddis, six were positive for ultra broad spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs), 6/6 were resistant to ampicillin, cefazolin, and cotrimoxazole, 1/6 were resistant to amikacin, cefoxitin, and ticarcillin/stick acid, and none were resistant to imipenem, polymyxin, or aminotrans (0/6 cases). Of the cases, 11 were negative for ESBLs. Ten out of eleven cases were resistant to ampicillin. Furthermore, 8/11 cases were resistant to cefazolin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, and cotrimoxazole and 1/11 were resistant to cefoxitin, cefaclor, furantoin, amikacin, and minocycline, and 0/11 were resistant to imipenem, ticarcillin/stick acid, aminotrans. ESBLs positive strains were resistant to 78.6% of the tested drugs (cefaclor, cefazolin, ceftazidime, furantoin, norfloxacin, levofloxacin, ciprofloxacin, cefoxitin, amoxicillin/rod acid, ticarcillin/rod acid, ampicillin, ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, cefuroxime, cefepime, gentamicin, cotrimoxazole, tobramycin, amikacin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol, and minocycline) at a lower rate of resistance than ESBLs positive strains. Of the eight positive cases of E. coli, seven were ESBLs positive, 7/7 were resistant to ampicillin, cefazolin, cefotaxime, cefuroxime, and cefepime, 1/7 were resistant to cefoxitin and minocycline, and 0/7 were resistant to imipenem, furantoin, or amikacin. One case was ESBLs negative and was resistant to all antimicrobial drugs except for ampicillin. Stone recurrence rates at 3, 6, and 12 months after discharge were 9.1%(4/44) and 31.4%(11/35), 13.6%(6/44), respectively, in the high compliance group, and 60.0%(21/35), 36.4%(16/44), and 71.4% (25/35), respectively, in the low compliance group. All differences were statistically significant.Conclusion:The most common pathogenic bacteria isolated from urine bacterial cultures of patients with infectious stones were A. chimaera, E. coli, and K. pneumoniae. The resistance rate of ESBLs-positive strains to antimicrobial drugs was significantly higher than that of ESBL-negative strains, and the resistance rate of antimicrobial drugs such as β-lactamase inhibitors, cefoxitin, amikacin, and imipenem was low. Combination therapy with standardized sensitive antimicrobial drugs and urease inhibitors significantly reduced the recurrence rate of stones among patients.

Vagus nerve reflex is a rare complication of percutaneous renal decompression. It is often induced by excessively rapid decompression of severe hydronephrosis and traction of the main nerves innervating the kidney. The clinical manifestations are irritability, sweating, clammy skin, hiccups, slow heart rate. It is easy to misdiagnose. In this study, 4 patients with vagus nerve excitement after percutaneous renal decompression were treated. After monitoring the patient’s vital signs and giving treatment such as expanding blood volume and raising blood pressure, the symptoms gradually disappeared.

The metastasis of renal cell carcinoma to the ureter is a rare phenomenon, and synchronal detection of metastasis to the contralateral ureter is a rarer phenomenon. A 62-year-old male patient with painless hematuria was examined and detected a renal cell carcinoma on the right kidney and bleeding from the left ureter. Ureteroscopy revealed a tumor in the left upper ureter, and biopsy suggested clear cell carcinoma. Laparoscopic radical nephrectomy was performed to resect the right renal cell carcinoma, and the pathology revealed a clear cell carcinoma, with Fuhrman nuclear grade 2 class. The ureteral tumor was resected 3 months later and the pathology revealed renal clear cell carcinoma. Sunitinib was used for 37 months, and there was no tumor recurrence or metastasis so far.

Objective To explore the significance of comprehensive treatment including anticoagulation,inferior vena cava filter implantation,mechanical thrombectomy,iliac vein angioplasty and stent placement and catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) in the treatment of acute iliac femoral vein thrombosis on the basis of left iliac vein compression.Methods In this study 61 patients were enrolled at Beijing Luhe Hospital,Capital Medical University between Mar 2013 and Mar 2019 in anticoagulation combined with CDT group and comprehensive treatment group.Short-term venous recanalization rate scores and long-term proximal valvular function of left femoral vein were compared.The survival curve was drawn using kaplan-meier method,and incidence of PTS was compared with the Log rank test.Results The short-term venous recanalization rate scores of the patients in the comprehensive treatment group were higher than scores of the patients in the traditional treatment group(t =9.872,P ＜ 0.001).16 patients developed PTS.The incidence of PTS in the comprehensive treatment group was lower than that in the traditional treatment group(x2 =7.146,P =0.008).Patients in comprehensive treatment group kept a better function of the proximal valvular of left femoral vein than patients in the traditional treatment group (x2 =23.834,P ＜0.001).Conclusions The comprehensive treatment can effectively reduce the occurrence of long-term PTS in patients with acute iliac femoral vein thrombosis complicated with left iliac vein compression,and improves the quality of patients' life.

A rapid resolution liquid chromatography quadruple time-of-flight mass spectrometric ( RRLC-Q-TOF/MS) method combined with multivariate statistical analysis was applied to investigate the changes of endogenous metabolites in murine urine before and after ultraviolet B ( UVB ) irradiation for the purpose of discussing the physiological mechanism of acute injury caused by UVB radiation. A narrow-band UVB ( NB-UVB) (TL-01, peak value 312nm) was used to establish the acute light damage model. The urine samples were centrifuged before four times dilution treatment, subsequently the diluted urine samples were separated on a Supelco Ascentis Express C18 column using water (0. 1% formic acid) and acetonitrile as mobile phase by gradient elution. The differences metabolites with major contribution for grouping were found out based on the metabolic profiling analysis of principal component analysis ( PCA) and cluster analysis ( CA) , which could illustrate their possible mechanism of actions by means of relevant pathways. A prediction model was built to investigate the forecasting ability of the acute photo damage induced by UVB irradiation through the partial least square discriminant analysis ( PLS-DA ) . The results of multivariate statistical analysis showed that the blank control group was separated from UVB model group quite well, 11 endogenous metabolites were identified as the potential biomarkers through comparison with the database, tandem mass spectrum data and standard substance, which indicated the UVB radiation may affect the sphingolipid metabolism, nucleic acid metabolism, linoleic acid metabolism and amino acid metabolism pathways. These different metabolites could be helpful for diagnosing the light damage induced by UVB radiation