Rezūm system water vapor treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms/benign prostatic hyperplasia: validation of convective thermal energy transfer and …

LA Mynderse, D Hanson, RA Robb, D Pacik, V Vit… - Urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate by magnetic resonance imaging the physical effects of convective
thermal energy transfer with water vapor as a means of treating lower urinary tract symptoms …

Two-year results after convective radiofrequency water vapor thermal therapy of symptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia

CM Dixon, ER Cedano, D Pacik, V Vit… - Research and reports …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Objective The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness and safety of convective
radiofrequency (RF) water vapor thermal therapy in men with lower urinary tract symptoms (…

Expression levels of PIWI-interacting RNA, piR-823, are deregulated in tumor tissue, blood serum and urine of patients with renal cell carcinoma

R Iliev, M Fedorko, T Machackova… - Anticancer …, 2016 - ar.iiarjournals.org
Background: Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is the most common neoplasm of adult kidney
accounting for about 3% of adult malignancies. P-Element induced wimpy testis (PIWI)-…

Efficacy and safety of Rezūm system water vapor treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms secondary to benign prostatic hyperplasia

C Dixon, ER Cedano, D Pacik, V Vit, G Varga… - Urology, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To assess 1-year efficacy and safety data from pilot trials of the Rezūm System
water vapor to treat lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) secondary to benign prostatic …

Combination of MiR-378 and MiR-210 serum levels enables sensitive detection of renal cell carcinoma

…, T Machackova, M Svoboda, D Pacik… - International journal of …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Serum microRNAs are emerging as a clinically useful tool for early and non-invasive detection
of various cancer types including renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Based on our previous …

Overexpression of long non-coding RNA TUG1 predicts poor prognosis and promotes cancer cell proliferation and migration in high-grade muscle-invasive bladder …

…, J Juracek, J Dolezel, Z Ozanova, M Fedorko, D Pacik… - Tumor Biology, 2016 - Springer
Long non-coding RNA TUG1 is involved in the development and progression of a variety of
tumors. Little is known about TUG1 function in high-grade muscle-invasive bladder cancer (…

Management of single large nonstaghorn renal stones in the CROES PCNL global study

W Xue, D Pacik, W Boellaard, A Breda, M Botoca… - The Journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
PURPOSE: We compared stone characteristics and outcomes in patients with a single large
nonstaghorn renal calculus treated with percutaneous nephrolithotomy in the Clinical …

Decreased expression levels of PIWIL1, PIWIL2, and PIWIL4 are associated with worse survival in renal cell carcinoma patients

…, K Slaba, M Svoboda, P Fabian, D Pacik… - OncoTargets and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a newly discovered class of small non-coding RNAs
involved in silencing of transposable elements and in sequence-specific chromatin …

Detection of let-7 miRNAs in urine supernatant as potential diagnostic approach in non-metastatic clear-cell renal cell carcinoma

…, M Svoboda, A Poprach, T Buchler, D Pacik… - Biochemia …, 2017 - hrcak.srce.hr
IntroductionUrinary microRNAs (miRNAs) are emerging as a clinically useful tool for early
and non-invasive detection of various types of cancer. The aim of this study was to evaluate …

Sarcosine up-regulates expression of genes involved in cell cycle progression of metastatic models of prostate cancer

…, H Polanska, M Masarik, V Vit, M Plevova, D Pacik… - Plos one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The effects of sarcosine on the processes driving prostate cancer (PCa) development
remain still unclear. Herein, we show that a supplementation of metastatic PCa cells (androgen …