Amos Shapiro

Impella 5.5 in Women with Cardiogenic Shock and Small LV Cavities: Insights into Safety, Efficacy and Renal Recovery

Ajit Desai, Piotr Wlodkowski, Hans Mautong, J. Ruiz et autres

Purpose: The Impella 5.5 is a percutaneous MCS device used to provide hemodynamic support in patients with cardiogenic shock (CS). In patients with small LV cavities (≤ 58mm), frequently seen in females, complications such as hemolysis, malpositioning, suction events, hypoperfusion and LV …

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Early Pulmonary Vascular Resistance Recovery with Impella 5.5 Before Heart Transplantation

Rohan Goswami, R. Klingbeil, Ajit Desai, Amos Shapiro et autres

Toward Better Understanding of Flow Diversion in Bifurcation Aneurysms

Maksim Shapiro, Amos Shapiro, Eytan Raz, Tibor Becske et autres

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Flow diversion is being increasingly used to treat bifurcation aneurysms. Empiric approaches have generally led to encouraging results, and a growing body of animal and ex vivo literature addresses the fate of target aneurysms and covered branches. Our prior …

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[ACTIVE SURVEILLANCE IN RECURRENT LOW-RISK BLADDER TUMORS].

Elhanan Parnasa, Amos Shapiro, Dov Pode, Vladimir Yutkin et autres

OBJECTIVES: To report our experience with the active surveillance policy in patients with recurrent low-risk bladder tumors. METHODS: The files of 52 patients who underwent active surveillance instead of immediate surgical resection were reviewed. Different variables concerning tumor growth rate were evaluated. …

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[FACTORS PREDICTING OVERALL AND DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL AFTER SURGERY FOR INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER].

Eli Fried, Vladimir Yutkin, Dov Pode, Amos Shapiro et autres

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the prognosis of patients who underwent surgery for invasive bladder cancer and to search for prognostic factors. METHODS: The files of all the patients who underwent radical or partial cystectomy for invasive bladder cancer between 1992 and 2014 were …

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The Response of Variant Histology Bladder Cancer to Intravesical Immunotherapy Compared to Conventional Cancer

Ofer N. Gofrit, Vladimir Yutkin, Amos Shapiro, Galina Pizov et autres

BACKGROUND: High-grade urothelial carcinomas (UCs) often show foci of variant differentiation. There is limited information in the literature about the response of these variant urothelial tumors to immunotherapy with bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG). We compared the response, to treatment with BCG, of UC …

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Radical cystectomy vs. chemoradiation in T2-4aN0M0 bladder cancer: A case-control study

Ofer N. Gofrit, Rony Nof, Dov Pode, Stephen Jay Frank et autres

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Cystoscopic-assisted partial cystectomy: description of technique and results

Ofer N. Gofrit, Amos Shapiro, Ran Katz, Mordechai Duvdevani et autres

BACKGROUND: Partial cystectomy provides oncological results comparable with those of radical cystectomy in selected patients with invasive bladder cancer without the morbidity associated with radical cystectomy and urinary diversion. We describe a novel technique of partial cystectomy that allows accurate identification of …

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Mixed High and Low Grade Bladder Tumors—Are They Clinically High or Low Grade?

Ofer N. Gofrit, Galina Pizov, Amos Shapiro, Mordechai Duvdevani et autres

PURPOSE: The pathological grade of bladder cancer has an immense impact on patient treatment and prognosis. While most bladder tumors show pure high or low grade patterns, some show a mixed pattern. We explored the incidence and clinical significance of this phenomenon. …

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The natural history of secondary muscle-invasive bladder cancer

Guy Hidas, Dov Pode, Amos Shapiro, Ran Katz et autres

BACKGROUND: The management of patients with high-grade non muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) brings diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. In the current study, we sought to study the natural history of progression to "secondary" muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC)-cancer that developed during follow up …

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Gross Hematuria in Patients with Prostate Cancer: Etiology and Management

Ofer N. Gofrit, Ran Katz, Amos Shapiro, Vladimir Yutkin et autres

The objective of the study is to assess the etiology and prognosis of gross hematuria (GH) in patients with carcinoma of the prostate (CAP). From 1991 to 2011, 81 men (mean age 74.3 years, SD 6.5) with CAP were hospitalized with GH. …

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Prevention of Bladder Tumor Recurrence

Amos Shapiro, Ofer Nativ

Tumor Recurrence After Transurethral Resection by Means of Bladder Irrigation with Distilled Water -A Prospective Randomized

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