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Infertility is the hot topic in the 1st number of International Brazilian Journal of Urology in 2024

2024· editorial· en· W4390546601 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational braz j urol · 2024
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicMale Reproductive Health Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicinePercutaneous nephrolithotomyInfertilityHormoneBalloon dilationGynecologyUrologyGeneral surgeryInternal medicineBalloonPercutaneousPregnancy

Abstract

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The papers came from many different countries such as Brazil, Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, China, Indonesia and USA, and as usual the editor ś comment highlights some of them.The editor in chief would like to highlight the following works:Dr. Ding and collegues from China, presented in page 7 (1) a nice systematic review comparing Balloon Dilation to Non-Balloon Dilation for Access in Ultrasound-Guided Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and concluded that the ultrasound-guided balloon dilatation offered several advantages in PCNL procedures.It facilitated faster access establishment, as evidenced by shorter access creation time.Additionally, it reduced the risk of kidney injury by minimizing postoperative hemoglobin loss and decreasing the need for transfusions.Moreover, it enhanced the efficiency of surgery by reducing the operation time.However, it is adequately control for confounding factors that may affect the outcomes.Therefore, further research is necessary to validate and strengthen these findings.Dr. Hadziselimovic from Switzerland, presented in page 20 (2) a important narrative review advocating hormonal treatment to prevent adult infertility in patients diagnosed with congenital undescended testes and concluded that abnormal germ cell development in cryptorchidism is not a congenital dysgenesis but rather an endocrinopathy, preceded by hormonal imbalance and perturbation of germ cell-specific gene expression during abrogated mini-puberty.Furthermore, hormonal treatment to achieve epididymo-testicular descent as the primary choice of treatment for cryptorchidism has a long tradition in Europe.It eliminates the need for subsequent surgery, and in cases of nonresponders, it facilitates orchidopexy, contributing to a reduced incidence of unilateral and the more serious bilateral complete post-surgical testicular atrophy.Therefore, the current and optimal therapeutic choice involves two steps of hormonal treatment.Dr. Schmit and collegues from USA, presented in page 37 (3) a important study about the less qualitative multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer ant the underestimation of extraprostatic extension in higher grade tumors and concluded that the negative predictive value of prostate Multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging for extraprostatic extensionmay be decreased for higher grade tumors.A detailed reference reading and image quality optimization may improve performance.However, urologists should exercise caution in nerve sparing approaches in these patients.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.308
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.038
GPT teacher head0.462
Teacher spread0.424 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it