PURPOSE Current clinical data support a safe warm ischemia time (WIT) limit of 30 minutes during laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN) or robot-assisted partial nephrectomy (RPN). We evaluated independent factors predicting prolonged WIT (more than 30 minutes) after LPN or RPN. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective data review was performed for 317 consecutive patients who underwent LPN or R...

BACKGROUND To compare the surgical margin status after open partial nephrectomy (OPN) and robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) performed in patients with T1a renal cell carcinoma (RCC). METHODS This was a propensity score-matched study including 702 patients with cT1a RCC treated with partial nephrectomy (PN) between May 2003 and July 2015. Perioperative parameters, including surgical margin wid...

BACKGROUND There has been an exponential growth in the reporting of series of robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN). We review the technique of RPN and the outcomes from large single-centre series of RPN. METHODS We searched databases to identify original articles related to RPN. For the technical aspects, we describe our technique and provide a general review of previous work. For outcomes, we r...

When major emergencies or accidents occur, risk evaluation and prediction are the most important means to reduce their impact. Typical uses failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) method for failure-risk ranking control. However, when faced with severe special infectious diseases such as COVID-19, there many cognitive information uncertainties that FMEA is unable effectively handle. To deal issue ...

Background & Aims The purpose of the study is to evaluate the accuracy of the C/RL, RPN, and EGF in diagnosing cirrhosis. Methods The study population included 95 cirrhotic patients in the cirrhosis group (56 men, 39 women, age range 14-76;mean age 52.3) and 57 subjects in the control group (26 men, 31 women, age range 18-83;mean age 51). All MR examinations were performed by using the same pro...

BACKGROUND Medical errors are one of the greatest problems in any healthcare systems. The best way to prevent such problems is errors identification and their roots. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) technique is a prospective risk analysis method. This study is a review of risk analysis using FMEA technique in different hospital wards and departments. METHODS This paper systematically...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used, powerful tool to identify assess potential failure modes in products make more reliable. Due the complexity of lack knowledge, FMEA involves many uncertainties practice. In previous studies, numerous modified methods based on fuzzy logic Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory have been employed address these uncertainties. These studies ...

BACKGROUND Endoscopic-assisted transoral surgery, including transoral robotic surgery for metastatic retropharyngeal lymph node (RPN) from well-differentiated thyroid cancer, has been reported to reduce the complications resulting from transcervical and transmandibular approaches. However, the narrow working space and difficulty identifying RPN are problematic. To solve these issues, several st...

Japanese encephalitis (JE) is an acute viral infection of the central nervous system where the JE virus infects the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and rapidly accumulates substantial amount of seven different nonstructural proteins (NS). These NS proteins tend to bind on a glycoprotein receptor, ribophorin (RPN) resulting in the malfunctioning of ER in host cells, subsequently triggeri...