Jihye Kim, Matthew I Bury, Kyeongha Kwon, Jae-Young Yoo, Nadia V Halstead, Hee-Sup Shin, Shupeng Li, Sang Min Won, Min-Ho Seo, Yunyun Wu, Do Yun Park, Mitali Kini, Jean Won Kwak, Surabhi R Madhvapathy, Joanna L Ciatti, Jae Hee Lee, Suyeon Kim, Hanjun Ryu, Kento Yamagishi, Hong-Joon Yoon, Sung Soo Kwak, Bosung Kim, Yonggang Huang, Lisa C Halliday, Earl Y Cheng, Guillermo A Ameer, Arun K Sharma, John A Rogers
Partial cystectomy procedures for urinary bladder-related dysfunction involve long recovery periods, during which urodynamic studies (UDS) intermittently assess lower urinary tract function. However, UDS are not patient-friendly, they exhibit user-to-user variability, and they amount to snapshots in time, limiting the ability to collect continuous, longitudinal data. These procedures also pose the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections, which can progress to ascending pyelonephritis due to prolonged lower tract manipulation in high-risk patients...
April 2, 2024: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America