Jeong Woo Yoo

AIM: To identify the sexual, emotional and psychological status of men who augmented their penis with mineral oil injection for their small penis. METHODS: Men who had penile paraffin were asked to answer the semi-structured questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed to assess the motivation, method of penile injection, changes in erectile function and satisfaction after penile injection. SCL (Symptom checklist)-90-R, STAI (State and Trait Anxiety Inventory) and Zung SDS (Self-rating depressi

We evaluate the diagnostic performance of deep learning artificial intelligence (AI) for bladder cancer, which used white-light images (WLIs) and narrow-band images, and tumor grade prediction of AI based on tumor color using the red/green/blue (RGB) method. This retrospective study analyzed 10,991 cystoscopic images of suspicious bladder tumors using a mask region-based convolutional neural network with a ResNeXt-101-32 × 8d-FPN backbone. The diagnostic performance of AI was evaluated by calcul

The rough set theory can represent a degree of consistency between condition and decision attributes of data pairs which do not have linguistic information. By using this ability, a measure called occupancy degree is defined, which can represent the degree of consistency between premise and consequent variables in fuzzy rules describing given experimental data pairs. A method is also proposed by which the projected data is partitioned on the input space, and an optimal fuzzy rule table and membe

Myosin light chain phosphorylation and phosphatidylinositol turnover were measured at different muscle lengths in bovine tracheal smooth muscle. The relationship between myosin phosphorylation and muscle length was linear between optimal length (Lo) and 0.1 Lo in both unstimulated and carbachol-activated tissues. However, myosin phosphorylation in carbachol-activated tissues was more sensitive to changes in muscle length. As a result, suprabasal myosin phosphorylation induced by carbachol was si

INTRODUCTION: We compare the symptomatic relief with urodynamic parameter change and operative safety of the outpatient transurethral resection in saline (TURIS-V) technique with inpatient transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) for the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). METHODS: This prospective cohort comparison study enrolled patients who needed BPH surgery. Between January 2010 and June 2011, outpatient TURIS-V was performed at 1 centre and the results of the treatment

Purpose: There is no consensus on the optimal duration of preoperative antibiotic treatment prior to ureteroscopic lithotripsy in patients presenting with urolithiasis-induced obstructive acute pyelonephritis (APN).We aimed to identify surgeon-modifiable, preoperative risk factors associated with postoperative systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) in these patients.Materials and Methods: This multicenter retrospective study evaluated 115 patients who presented with urolithiasis-induced

BACKGROUND: It is uncertain how long combination therapy should be continued in patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS). We investigated the withdrawal effects of α1-adrenergic receptor blocker (AB) or 5α-reductase inhibitor (5ARI) following successful combination therapy. METHODS: This prospective, randomized, open-label, parallel trial enrolled 222 patients with BPH/LUTS who showed at least a seven-point improvement in International Prostate Sym

Hypoechoic lesions that meet the quantitative criteria seem useful for predicting cs-PCA. The presence of hypoechoic lesions is not a predicting factor for PCA.

Introduction A positive association between benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH)/lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) was reported in several studies, but studies from Asia often showed conflicting results.Materials and methods Medical records were obtained from a health promotion center database between 2021 and 2022. Men without a history of treatment for LUTS were evaluated using the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS), Overactive Bladder Symptom Score (OABSS

This study investigated the efficacy of the elastography strain ratio (ESR) as a predictor of prostate cancer (PCa) in targeted prostate biopsy. In total, 257 patients who underwent magnetic resonance imaging-targeted biopsy were enrolled. Before biopsy, we placed regions of interest (zone A and B) in the lesion and levator ani. The ESR was measured as zone A/zone B. Multivariate analyses were performed to predict PCa and clinically significant PCa. There were 206 (71.5%) positive cancer lesions

OBJECTIVE: Symptoms of male overactive bladder (OAB) may be caused by several systemic pathophysiological factors rather than a single-source etiology. We investigated the clinical factors associated with the severity of OAB symptoms in treatment-naïve men with coexisting benign prostatic hyperplasia. METHODS: We obtained records from a health promotion center database of male patients who visited between March 2019 and February 2020. Men without a history of treatment for lower urinary tract sy

Abstract Background We identified pain variation according to prostate biopsy sites and compared differences in pain relief according to the site of periprostatic nerve block (PNB). Methods This retrospective study collected data from 312 patients who underwent transrectal prostate biopsies between January 2019 and August 2020. Patients were stratified into two groups according to the site of local anesthesia (base vs. base and apex PNB), with each block achieved with 2.5 cm 3 of 2% lidocaine. P

We analyzed the intensity of pain at each site of systemic prostate biopsy (SBx) and compared the intensity of pain among magnetic resonance (MRI)-targeted transrectal biopsies according to the periprostatic nerve block (PNB) site. We collected data from 229 consecutive patients who had undergone MRI-targeted biopsy. Patients were stratified into two groups according to the site of PNB (base versus base and apex PNB). Pain was quantified at the following time points: probe insertion, injection a

PURPOSE: Despite advances in technology, such as advent of laser enucleation and minimally invasive surgical therapies, transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) remains the most widely performed surgical technique for benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). We evaluated resection volume (RV)-derived parameters and analyzed the effect of RV on post-TURP outcomes. METHODS: This observational study used data from patients who underwent TURP at two institutions between January 2011 and December 20