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Interviews with Outstanding Authors (2024)

In 2024, many TAU authors make outstanding contributions to our journal. Their articles published with us have received very well feedback in the field and stimulate a lot of discussions and new insights among the peers.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding authors who have been making immense efforts in their research fields, with a brief interview of their unique perspective and insightful view as authors.

Reviewer of the Month (2024)

In 2024, TAU reviewers continue to make outstanding contributions to the peer review process. They demonstrated professional effort and enthusiasm in their reviews and provided comments that genuinely help the authors to enhance their work.

Hereby, we would like to highlight some of our outstanding reviewers, with a brief interview of their thoughts and insights as a reviewer. Allow us to express our heartfelt gratitude for their tremendous effort and valuable contributions to the scientific process.

TAU Annual Report 2023

We are glad to present the 2023 Annual Report of TAU here. Since TAU was launched, TAU articles have been cited 11,320 times by articles indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. TAU continues to publish cutting-edge research covering the whole spectrum of andrology and urology.

New Impact Factor for Translational Andrology and Urology: 2

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU) has attained its latest impact factor update for the 2022 citation year: 2.

Here, we would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to all our Editorial Team Members, Guest Editors, authors, and reviewers for their valuable contributions.

Translational Andrology and Urology 2022 CiteScore Released: 3.4

We are pleased to announce that the Translational Andrology and Urology (TAU) has received its 2022 CiteScore: 3.4, ranking 41 out of 107 journals in the Urology category.

Furthermore, we are delighted to highlight the remarkable achievements made by all AME journals in the CiteScore ranking.

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Vol 13, No 4 (April, 2024)

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Original Article

Real-world clinical effectiveness of nonsurgical treatments for female with POP-Q stage II cystocele: a retrospective analysis of therapeutic efficacy

Cuiping Jin, Hongliang Yan, Yumin Shang, Chaoqun Dong, Pengfei Li, Yang Tang, Fuling Ma, Yuanjie Niu

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Survival nomogram and risk classification system for patients with adrenocortical carcinoma: a study based on the SEER database and external validation in China

Zhizhou Li, Maoyu Wang, Wei Gang, Yidie Ying, Ziwei Wang, Qing Chen, Xufeng Yu, Wei He, Shuxiong Zeng, Zhensheng Zhang, Chuanliang Xu, Huiqing Wang

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Identification of a lactate metabolism-related lncRNAs signature for predicting the prognosis in patients with kidney renal clear cell carcinoma

Tianzi Xu, Yixin Liu, Biao Ning, Min Luo, Yongchang Wei

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Porous Se@SiO₂ nanocomposites play a potential inhibition role in hyperoxaluria associated kidney stone by exerting antioxidant effects

Chen Ye, Lin Zhao, Jiaying Miao, Chengyu Gong, Yuangui Chen, Shengfei Qin, Nicholas N. Tadros, Stefan Aufderklamm, Wenli Jiang, Guoying Deng, Shaoxiong Ming

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Nitro-oleic acid (NO₂-OA) ameliorates erectile dysfunction in a rat model of diabetes mellitus via modulation of fibrosis, inflammation and autophagy

Changbo Zhao, Weibo Chen, Fangxin Gong, Wenzhen Wang, Cuiqin Fan, Ye Li, Tian Lan, Wenjing Wang, Mingzhen Yuan

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Differential effects of obesity on perioperative outcomes in renal cell carcinoma patients based on race and ethnicity and neighborhood-level socioeconomic status

Waheed Asif, Irasema C. Paster, Kathryn R. Pulling, Kyle Garcia, Patrick Wightman, Alejandro Cruz, Christopher Combates, Eric C. Kauffman, Francine C. Gachupin, Benjamin R. Lee, Juan Chipollini, Ken Batai

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Surgical Technique

Microscopic subinguinal varicocelectomy with video telescopic operating microscope (VITOM) telescope: outcome analysis

Mohammad Hifzi Mohd Hashim, Xeng Inn Fam, Mohammad Hasif Azizi, Hau Chun Khoo, Suzliza Shukor

PDF Pages: 560-567 Full Text (56) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Complicated artificial urinary sphincter insertion using the transcorporal cuff: keys to the tunical flap technique

Haidar Al Saffar, Kieran Sandhu, Jonathan S. O’Brien, Qi Wei Wang, Brian D. Kelly, Daniel Moon

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Review Article

Penile prosthesis in priapism: a systematic review of outcomes and complications

David A. Velasquez, Paulo Vitor Barreto Guimaraes, Hernan Lescay, Omer Raheem

PDF Pages: 574-583 Full Text (53) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Narrative review of immediate salvage for penile prosthesis infection

Eric S. Adams, Rafael D. Tua-Caraccia, Aaron C. Lentz

PDF Pages: 584-595 Full Text (53) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

A contemporary systematic review of penile lengthening procedures with penile prosthesis

Daniel Roadman, Carol Feng, Morgan Salkowski, Laurence A. Levine

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Overcoming barriers to immediate penile implant salvage surgery: a narrative review

Logan W. Grimaud, David L. Barquin, Jeremy A. Kurnot, Eric S. Adams, Aaron C. Lentz

PDF Pages: 613-621 Full Text (24) Reporting Checklist Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Editorial Commentary

European association of urology biochemical recurrence risk stratification in the context of post-prostatectomy salvage therapy

Timothy A. Lin, Daniel Y. Song

PDF Pages: 622-625 Full Text (25) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Metabolic enzymes moonlighting to drive enzalutamide resistance in prostate cancer

Maria Rusan, Simone Weiss, Karina Dalsgaard Sørensen

PDF Pages: 626-630 Full Text (39) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Effectiveness of switch therapy from tyrosine kinase inhibitors to immune checkpoint inhibitors: the need for biomarkers to establish treatment strategies in patients with metastatic renal cell carcinoma

Yoshihiko Tasaki, Shuzo Hamamoto, Yoko Furukawa-Hibi, Takahiro Yasui

PDF Pages: 631-634 Full Text (51) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Refining the subgroup analyses and optimal patient population in the JAVELIN Bladder 100 trial

Jeanny B. Aragon-Ching

PDF Pages: 635-638 Full Text (41) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Chemoablation with UGN-102 in intermediate-risk non-muscle invasive bladder cancer, are we there yet?

Daniel A. González-Padilla, José Daniel Subiela, Felipe Villacampa-Aubá

PDF Pages: 639-642 Full Text (36) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Management of small renal mass: unmet needs and quest for high quality evidence

Leslie Claire Licari, Eugenio Bologna, Riccardo Autorino

PDF Pages: 643-646 Full Text (27) Peer Review File COI Form Open Access

Ablative therapy with UGN-102 for low-grade intermediate risk non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer: ready for primetime?

Benjamin Lichtbroun, Saum Ghodoussipour, Vignesh T. Packiam

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What is the key factor determining effectiveness of radiotherapy for high-risk prostate cancer: a hidden message from RTOG 0521

Keisei Okamoto

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A critical evaluation of Optilume^® BPH as a novel minimally invasive surgical treatment for the management of lower urinary tract symptoms in men

David C. Chen, Alice Thomson, Siyu Huang, Declan G. Murphy, Damien Bolton, Nathan Lawrentschuk, Marlon L. Perera

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Original Article

Surgical treatment of Peyronie’s disease by modified 16-dot placation in China

Wen Ji Li, Haijun Yao, Ke Zhang, Zhikang Cai, Jun Da, Mingxi Xu, Zhong Wang

Does normalizing PSA after successful treatment of chronic prostatitis with high PSA value exclude prostatic biopsy?

Sherif Azab, Ayman Osama, Mona Rafaat

Review Article

Strategies for maintaining penile size following penile implant

King Chien Joe Lee, Gerald B. Brock

Phalloplasty for the genetic male

Giulio Garaffa, Gabriele Antonini, Vincenzo Gentile, David J. Ralph

Exogenous testosterone: a preventable cause of male infertility

Lindsey E. Crosnoe, Ethan Grober, Dana Ohl, Edward D. Kim

Premature ejaculation: do we have effective therapy?

Ege Can Serefoglu, Theodore R. Saitz, Landon Trost, Wayne J.G. Hellstrom

Peyronie’s disease: current therapy

Clay M. Pendleton, Run Wang

Expert Opinions on Challenging Cases

Commentary on the myths of Peyronie’s disease

Alex K Wu, Tom F Lue

Commentary

Randall plaque versus renal stone?

Thomas Chi, Joe Miller, Marshall L. Stoller

Podium Lecture

PL 03. Male sexual function before and after urethral stricture surgery

Hong Li

Original Article

Overall satisfaction, sexual function, and the durability of neophallus dimensions following staged female to male genital gender confirming surgery: the Institute of Urology, London U.K. experience

Maurice M. Garcia, Nim A. Christopher, Francesco De Luca, Marco Spilotros, David J. Ralph

The efficacy of resiniferatoxin in prevention of catheter related bladder discomfort in patients after TURP - A pilot, randomized, open study

Ning Zhang, Peng Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang, Yong Yang

Review Article

Reactive oxygen species, inflammation and calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis

Saeed R. Khan

Mechanisms of resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Thenappan Chandrasekar, Joy C. Yang, Allen C. Gao, Christopher P. Evans

Inflammation in prostate cancer progression and therapeutic targeting

Timothy Stark, Lydia Livas, Natasha Kyprianou

The current and future role of magnetic resonance imaging in prostate cancer detection and management

Jan Philipp Radtke, Dogu Teber, Markus Hohenfellner, Boris A. Hadaschik

Pelvic radiotherapy and sexual function in women

Pernille Tine Jensen, Ligita Paskeviciute Froeding

Active surveillance and focal therapy for low-intermediate risk prostate cancer

Laurence Klotz

Future perspectives of prostate cancer therapy

Murali Gururajan, Edwin M. Posadas, Leland W. K. Chung

Upper urinary tract disease: what we know today and unmet needs

Romain Mathieu, Karim Bensalah, Ilaria Lucca, Aurélie Mbeutcha, Morgan Rouprêt, Shahrokh F. Shariat

Review Articles

Decoding the androgen receptor splice variants

Changxue Lu, Jun Luo

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in prostate growth and tumor progression

Campbell M. Grant, Natasha Kyprianou

Steroid hormone synthetic pathways in prostate cancer

Elahe A. Mostaghel

Androgen receptor gene mutation, rearrangement, polymorphism

Kurtis Eisermann, Dan Wang, Yifeng Jing, Laura E. Pascal, Zhou Wang

Androgen receptor-mediated non-genomic regulation of prostate cancer cell proliferation

Ross S. Liao, Shihong Ma, Lu Miao, Rui Li, Yi Yin, Ganesh V. Raj

Androgen receptor genomic regulation

Hong-Jian Jin, Jung Kim, Jindan Yu

Near-infrared fluorescence and nuclear imaging and targeting of prostate cancer

Jason Wu, Dongfeng Pan, Leland W.K. Chung

Current clinical challenges in prostate cancer

Jonathan L. Silberstein, Sumanta Kumar Pal, Brian Lewis, Oliver Sartor

Mini-Review

Epidemiology of urethral strictures

Amjad Alwaal, Sarah D. Blaschko, Jack W. McAninch, Benjamin N. Breyer

Guideline

Clinical utility of sperm DNA fragmentation testing: practice recommendations based on clinical scenarios

Ashok Agarwal, Ahmad Majzoub, Sandro C. Esteves, Edmund Ko, Ranjith Ramasamy, Armand Zini

Original Article

Overall satisfaction, sexual function, and the durability of neophallus dimensions following staged female to male genital gender confirming surgery: the Institute of Urology, London U.K. experience

Maurice M. Garcia, Nim A. Christopher, Francesco De Luca, Marco Spilotros, David J. Ralph

Incidence of urinary extravasation and rate of ureteral stenting after high-grade renal trauma in adults: a meta-analysis

Sorena Keihani, Ross E. Anderson, Michelle Fiander, Mary M. McFarland, Gregory J. Stoddard, James M. Hotaling, Jeremy B. Myers

Safety and efficacy of daily Revactin^® in men with erectile dysfunction: a 3-month pilot study

Sabine Nguyen, Jacob Rajfer, Magda Shaheen

Review Article

Future perspectives of prostate cancer therapy

Murali Gururajan, Edwin M. Posadas, Leland W. K. Chung

Small RNA and its application in andrology and urology

Ji Wang, Long-Cheng Li

TGF-β mediated DNA methylation in prostate cancer

Chung Lee, Qiang Zhang, Xaolin Zi, Atreya Dash, Marcelo B Soares, Farahnaz Rahmatpanah, Zhenyu Jia, Michael McClelland, Dan Mercola

Cystine nephrolithiasis

Hasan Fattah, Yasmin Hambaroush, David S. Goldfarb

Kidney stone risk following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

Benjamin K. Canales, Ricardo D. Gonzalez

Reactive oxygen species, inflammation and calcium oxalate nephrolithiasis

Saeed R. Khan

Outlining the limits of partial nephrectomy

Sameer Chopra, Raj Satkunasivam, Chandan Kundavaram, Gangning Liang, Inderbir S. Gill

Mechanisms of resistance in castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC)

Thenappan Chandrasekar, Joy C. Yang, Allen C. Gao, Christopher P. Evans

Prostate cancer metastasis: roles of recruitment and reprogramming, cell signal network and three-dimensional growth characteristics

Shabnam Ziaee, Gina Chia-Yi Chu, Jen-Ming Huang, Shirly Sieh, Leland W. K. Chung

Inflammation in prostate cancer progression and therapeutic targeting

Timothy Stark, Lydia Livas, Natasha Kyprianou

Sympathetic nervous system and chronic bladder pain: a new tune for an old song

Ana Charrua, Rui Pinto, Lori Ann Birder, Francisco Cruz

Angiogenic factors, bladder neuroplasticity and interstitial cystitis—new pathobiological insights

Ricardo Saban

Increased bladder permeability in interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome

Robert E. Hurst, Beverley Greenwood-Van Meerveld, Amy B. Wisniewski, Samuel VanGordon, Hsueh Kung Lin, Bradley P. Kropp, Rheal A. Towner

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based radiomics for prostate cancer radiotherapy

Fei Yang, John C. Ford, Nesrin Dogan, Kyle R. Padgett, Adrian L. Breto, Matthew C. Abramowitz, Alan Dal Pra, Alan Pollack, Radka Stoyanova

Editorial

PIVOT and the challenges of localized prostate cancer care

Aviva E. Weinberg, James D. Brooks

Research Highlights

Enzalutamide: the emperor of all anti-androgens

Emmanuel S. Antonarakis

Review Articles

Androgen receptor gene mutation, rearrangement, polymorphism

Kurtis Eisermann, Dan Wang, Yifeng Jing, Laura E. Pascal, Zhou Wang

Androgen receptor epigenetics

Changmeng Cai, Xin Yuan, Steven P. Balk

Androgen receptor genomic regulation

Hong-Jian Jin, Jung Kim, Jindan Yu

Decoding the androgen receptor splice variants

Changxue Lu, Jun Luo

Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) in prostate growth and tumor progression

Campbell M. Grant, Natasha Kyprianou

Steroid hormone synthetic pathways in prostate cancer

Elahe A. Mostaghel

Near-infrared fluorescence and nuclear imaging and targeting of prostate cancer

Jason Wu, Dongfeng Pan, Leland W.K. Chung

Mini-Review

Multi-peptide immunotherapeutic vaccine for renal cell carcinoma: getting the troops all worked up

Kavitha Yaddanapudi, John W. Eaton

Review Article: Hypospadias

Do endocrine disruptors cause hypospadias?

Sisir Botta, Gerald R. Cunha, Laurence S. Baskin

Below are the latest Translational Andrology and Urology articles published online ahead of print publication.

Review Article

A narrative review on synchronous concurrent versus delayed sequential surgery in the artificial urinary sphincter and penile prosthesis implantation

Eric Chung

Published online: 25 April 2024

Editorial Commentary

Editorial on large language models

Christopher M. Deibert

Published online: 23 April 2024

Original Article

A new adjustable artificial urinary sphincter for male stress urinary incontinence (Victo^TM): preliminary clinical results

Ghazal Ameli, Tanja Hüsch, Wilhelm A. Hübner, Peter Weibl

Published online: 09 January 2024

Review Article

The male slings: an effective and safe alternative surgical treatment to the artificial urinary sphincter for male stress urinary incontinence?—a narrative review

Eric Chung, Brian Ng Hung Shin, Juan Wang

Published online: 05 January 2024

Review Article

Artificial urinary sphincter and female stress urinary incontinence over the past 50 years: a narrative review

Mariana Madanelo, Emmanuel Chartier-Kastler, Tamsin Greenwell, Gary Gray, Rose Khavari, Gommert A. Van Koeveringe, Frank Van Der Aa, Benoit Peyronnet

Published online: 08 November 2023

Review Article

Microenergy shockwave therapies for female stress urinary incontinence

Guiting Lin, Tom F. Lue

Published online: 21 August 2023

Review Article

The fragile urethra: what to do next?—a narrative review

Aroh Pandit, Chrystal Chang, Jay Simhan

Published online: 28 July 2023

Review Article

Cellular regenerative therapy in stress urinary incontinence: new frontiers?—a narrative review

Karl-Erik Andersson, Koudy Williams

Published online: 24 July 2023

Review Article

Artificial urinary sphincter and stricture disease: surgical principles in management

Francisco E. Martins, José Bernal, Liliya Tryfonyuk, Henriette Veiby Holm

Published online: 11 July 2023

Review Article

The electronic artificial urinary sphincter: ongoing innovation of a classic device—a narrative review

George E. Koch, Melissa R. Kaufman

Published online: 30 June 2023

Review Article

Artificial urinary sphincter for neurogenic urinary incontinence: a narrative review

Bridget L. Findlay, Daniel S. Elliott

Published online: 09 June 2023

Review Article

Adjustable continence therapy (ProACT/ACTTM) with periurethral balloons for treatment of stress urinary incontinence: a narrative review

Stefan den Hoedt, Bertil F. M. Blok

Published online: 31 May 2023

Journal Highlight more

Translational Andrology and Urology (Print ISSN 2223-4683; Online ISSN 2223-4691; Transl Androl Urol; TAU) is an open access, peer-reviewed, bi-monthly journal that covers various aspects in diseases of male and female urinary tract including kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra and the male reproductive organs like penis, testes, scrotum, prostate etc.