...Moustafa Elleisy; Heike Zettl; Desiree Louise Dräger; Oliver W. Hakenberg Introduction: The aim of this study was to determine the impact of diabetes and antidiabetic medications on referral and pathological outcomes in uro-oncology cases. We report preliminary results from a single-center study...

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...Baozhu Yi; Xiaowei Xu; Zhendong Lin; Youhua He; Shuaibin Wang Introduction: This study aimed to examine the susceptibility profile of Escherichia coli in urinary tract infections (UTIs) among elderly diabetic patients to support judicious and evidence-based antibiotic use. Methods: From January...

... severe disease are increased age, obesity, smoking and chronic underlying comorbidities (including diabetes mellitus). High-risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) progression and worse prognosis are also characterized by a higher incidence in patients with risk factors similar to COVID-19...

... of erectile function. Materials and Methods: Sprague-Dawley rats (12 weeks old) were divided into three groups (n = 12 in each): normal control, diabetes mellitus (DM), and DM with C3G concentrated material treatment (DM + C3G). DM and DM + C3G group rats received a single injection of streptozotocin (50 mg...

...Xiao-Ming Zhang; Pei-Hua Shi; Sai-Hong Cao; He-Jun Yu; Junaid Azad; Shu-Cai Ling Objective: To assess transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) and thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) expression in the cavernous tissue of rats with streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes. Materials and Methods: Twenty male Sprague...

...Yat-Ching Tong; Ying-Cho Hung; Shinn-Nan Lin; Juei-Tang Cheng Clinically, a 59% prevalence of impotence was reported among diabetic male patients. Neurological, vascular, endocrinologic and psychological factors are probably involved. Previous reports with the rat model found deterioration...

...Saadettin Küpeli; Yaşar Bedük; Sezai Yaman; Mut Şafak Emphysematous pyelonephritis is an acute infectious process mostly associated with diabetes and obstruction. It is a life-threatening illness and treatment generally involves antibiotic therapy, surgical drainage and nephrectomy. The prognosis...

...H. van Poppel; R. Stessens; L. Baert; B. van Damme; H. Carton Urinary bladder biopsies from 31 multiple sclerosis patients, 9 diabetics, 5 patients after transtrigonal phenolization and 20 control patients were stained for acetylcholinesterase, S100 and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP...

...Tomohiro Kuwahara; Yoshihiro Wada; Wataru Takahashi; Masaki Yoshida; Hitoshi Iwashita; Hiroaki Kikukawa; Juro Nakanishi; Shoichi Ueda Introduction: We evaluated the effects of diabetes on nitric oxide-mediated relaxations and nitric oxide synthase activity in male rat corpus cavernosum smooth...

...Mario Bonadio; Micaela Meini; Cristina Gigli; Benedetta Longo; Armando Vigna Aim: The aim of the study was to compare the epidemiological, microbiological and clinical features of diabetic patients with urinary tract infection (UTI) to those of nondiabetic ones. Methods: A prospective study...

...Kazuhiko Nishi; Yoshihiro Wada; Motoaki Saito; Harris E. Foster Jr.; Robert M. Weiss; Jamshid Latifpour We studied the effects of 8 weeks of streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes on the density and the pharmacological properties of α 1 -adrenoceptors in the rat prostate using receptor-binding...