Cryosurgery

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of neodymium: yttrium aluminum garnet and diode laser transscleral cyclophotocoagulation and cyclocryotherapy. 
  • A pretreatment nomogram for prediction of biochemical failure after primary cryoablation of the prostate. 
  • Ablation of the locally advanced pancreatic cancer: An introduction and brief summary of techniques. 
  • Accessory atrioventricular pathway in an infant: prediction of location with body surface maps and ablation with cryosurgery. 
  • Acute and long-term efficacy and safety of catheter cryoablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus for treatment of type 1 atrial flutter. 
  • Analysis of urinary function using validated instruments and uroflowmetry after primary and salvage prostate cryoablation. 
  • Anterior gland focal cryoablation: proof-of-concept primary prostate cancer treatment in select men with localized anterior cancers detected by multi-parametric magnetic resonance imaging. 
  • Anti-inflammatory treatment of muscular injuries in sports. 
  • Associations Between Prostate Volume and Oncologic Outcomes in Men Undergoing Focal Cryoablation of the Prostate. 
  • Cardiac cryosurgery: effects of myocardial temperature on cryolesion size. 
  • Cardiac cryosurgery: regional myocardial blood flow of ventricular cryolesions. 
  • Cellular cardiomyoplasty improves diastolic properties of injured heart. 
  • Cerebral magnetic resonance findings in asymptomatic patients after atrial fibrillation catheter ablation: cause for alarm or further study? 
  • Clinicopathologic correlation of an epiretinal membrane associated with a recurrent macular hole. 
  • Comparison of Acute Histologic and Biomechanical Effects of Radiofrequency Ablation and Cryoablation on Periarticular Structures in a Swine Model. 
  • Comparison of Optical Coherence Tomography With Fundus Photographs, Fluorescein Angiography, and Histopathologic Analysis in Assessing Coats Disease. 
  • Comparison of Outcomes Between Preoperatively Potent Men Treated with Focal Versus Whole Gland Cryotherapy in a Matched Population. 
  • Complications and postoperative events after cryosurgery for prostate cancer. 
  • Complications of laparoscopic and percutaneous renal cryoablation in a single tertiary referral center. 
  • Contemporary results of focal therapy for prostate cancer using cryoablation. 
  • Contrast enhancement on computed tomography after renal cryoablation: an evidence of treatment failure? 
  • Cryoablation for Small Renal Masses: Selection Criteria, Complications, and Functional and Oncologic Results. 
  • Cryoablation for atrial fibrillation and antiarrhythmic drug pretreatment: a single referral center experience. 
  • Cryoablation of accessory pathways: incremental insights on the way toward a therapeutic panacea? 
  • Cryoablation of atrial fibrillation. 
  • Cryosurgery after chemoembolization for hepatocellular carcinoma in patients with cirrhosis. 
  • Cryosurgery for cardiac arrhythmias: acute and chronic effects on coronary arteries. 
  • Cryosurgical debulking of unresectable liver metastases for palliation of carcinoid syndrome. 
  • Cryosurgical denervation of the heart: acute and chronic effects. 
  • Cryosurgical modification of retrograde atrioventricular conduction. Implications for the surgical treatment of atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia. 
  • Current salvage methods for recurrent prostate cancer after failure of primary radiotherapy. 
  • Current status of minimally invasive ablative techniques in the treatment of small renal tumours. 
  • Cytoablative therapy with combined resection and cryosurgery for limited bilobar hepatic colorectal metastases. 
  • Defeating Cancers' Adaptive Defensive Strategies Using Thermal Therapies: Examining Cancer's Therapeutic Resistance, Ablative, and Computational Modeling Strategies as a means for Improving Therapeutic Outcome. 
  • Development of myopia in infants with birth weights less than 1251 grams. The Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity Cooperative Group. 
  • Device-related complications during renal cryoablation: insights from the Manufacturer and User Facility Device Experience (MAUDE) database. 
  • Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. 
  • Does Any Racial Disparity Exist in Oncologic Outcomes After Primary Cryotherapy for Prostate Cancer? A Matched-pair Comparative Analysis of the Cryo On-Line Data Registry. 
  • Does prior surgical interventional therapy for BPH affect the oncological or functional outcomes after primary whole-gland prostate cryoablation for localized prostate cancer? 
  • Early retinal vessel development and iris vessel dilatation as factors in retinopathy of prematurity. Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity (CRYO-ROP) Cooperative Group. 
  • Editorial Comment on: "Ten-Year Experience with Percutaneous Cryoablation of Renal Tumors: Tumor Size Predicts Disease Progression" by Pickersgill et al. 
  • Editorial commentary: Atrial fibrillation ablation with cryoenergy: It׳s "Cool"; it׳s "Non-inferior"; Is it better? 
  • Effect of freeze time during renal cryoablation: a swine model. 
  • Efficacy of cryotherapy as first line therapy in patients with Barrett's neoplasia: a systematic review and pooled analysis. 
  • Elective prolongation of atrioventricular conduction by multiple discrete cryolesions: a new technique for the treatment of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia. 
  • Experimental transvitreal cyanoacrylate retinopexy in a primate model. 
  • Experimental transvitreal cyanoacrylate retinopexy. 
  • Financial comparative analysis of minimally invasive surgery to open surgery for localized prostate cancer: a single-institution experience. 
  • Five-Year Biochemical Progression-Free Survival Following Salvage Whole-Gland Prostate Cryoablation: Defining Success with Nadir Prostate-Specific Antigen. 
  • Focal Cryoablation of Image-Localized Prostate Cancer. 
  • Focal cryotherapy for prostate cancer. 
  • Focal therapy of prostate cancer: evidence-based analysis for modern selection criteria. 
  • From whole-gland to targeted cryoablation for the treatment of unilateral or focal prostate cancer. 
  • Hydropneumodissection-Assisted Cryoablation of Recurrent Sarcoma Adjacent to the Sciatic Nerve as a Limb-Sparing Alternative to Hindquarter Amputation. 
  • Incidence and early course of retinopathy of prematurity. The Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity Cooperative Group. 
  • Integrin involvement in freeze resistance of androgen-insensitive prostate cancer. 
  • Issues critical to the successful application of cryosurgical ablation of the prostate. 
  • Long-term outcome of cyclocryotherapy for refractory pediatric glaucoma. 
  • Management of pediatric tachyarrhythmias on mechanical support. 
  • Minimally invasive surgery using ablative modalities for the localized renal mass. 
  • Morphology of hypoxia following cryoablation in a prostate cancer murine model: its relationship to necrosis, apoptosis and, microvessel density. 
  • Multicenter trial of cryotherapy for retinopathy of prematurity. Snellen visual acuity and structural outcome at 5 1/2 years after randomization. 
  • Multiple nephron-sparing procedures in solitary kidney with recurrent, metachronous, nonfamilial renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Nerve-sparing focal cryoablation of prostate cancer. 
  • New and Established Technology in Focal Ablation of the Prostate: A Systematic Review. 
  • New and recurrent tumors in germinal retinoblastoma: is there a treatment effect? 
  • On-demand use of erectile aids in men with preoperative erectile dysfunction treated by whole gland prostate cryoablation. 
  • Oncological and Functional Outcomes of Patients Undergoing Individualized Partial Gland Cryoablation of the Prostate: A Single-Institution Experience. 
  • Oncological and functional outcomes of men undergoing primary whole gland cryoablation of the prostate: A 20-year experience. 
  • Open-configuration MR imaging, intervention, and surgery of the urinary tract. 
  • Percutaneous Image-guided Cryoneurolysis: Applications and Techniques. 
  • Percutaneous cryoablation of renal lesions with radiographic ice ball involvement of the renal sinus: analysis of hemorrhagic and collecting system complications. 
  • Percutaneous cryoablation of renal masses under CT fluoroscopy: radiation doses to the patient and interventionalist. 
  • Percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors: patient selection, technique, and postprocedural imaging. 
  • Performance of a new cardiac cryoablation system in the treatment of cavotricuspid valve isthmus-dependent atrial flutter. 
  • Persistent contrast enhancement several months after laparoscopic cryoablation of the small renal mass may not indicate recurrent tumor. 
  • Predicting biopsy-proven prostate cancer recurrence following cryosurgery. 
  • Predictors of Rectourethral Fistula Formation After Primary Whole-Gland Cryoablation for Prostate Cancer: Results from the Cryo On-Line Database Registry. 
  • Procedural Patterns and Safety of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation: Findings From Get With The Guidelines-Atrial Fibrillation. 
  • Procedure characteristics and outcomes of atrial fibrillation ablation procedures using cryoballoon versus radiofrequency ablation: A report from the GWTG-AFIB registry. 
  • Propensity Score-Matched Comparison of Partial to Whole-Gland Cryotherapy for Intermediate-Risk Prostate Cancer: An Analysis of the Cryo On-Line Data Registry Data. 
  • Prostate Specific Antigen Nadir of 0.1 or Less Is a Predictor of Treatment Success in Men Undergoing Salvage Whole Prostate Gland Cryoablation. 
  • Prostatic abscess as a delayed complication following cryosurgery for primary prostate cancer. 
  • Radical prostatectomy and cryotherapy--some answers, more questions. 
  • Re-purposing cryoablation: a combinatorial 'therapy' for the destruction of tissue. 
  • Real-time monitoring of luminal esophageal temperature during left atrial radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation: observations about esophageal heating during ablation at the pulmonary vein ostia and posterior left atrium. 
  • Recognition and management of dermatologic complications from interventional radiology procedures. 
  • Renal cryoablation and radio frequency ablation: an evaluation of worst case scenarios in a porcine model. 
  • Renal function outcomes after laparoscopic renal cryoablation. 
  • Rethinking papillary muscle resection for refractory ventricular tachycardia in the LVAD era. A case report. 
  • Retinopathy of prematurity: the disease process, classifications, screening, treatment, and outcomes. 
  • Role of vitamin D(3) as a sensitizer to cryoablation in a murine prostate cancer model: preliminary in vivo study. 
  • Salvage Cryoablation for Local Recurrences of Thyroid Cancer Inseparable from the Trachea and Neurovascular Structures. 
  • Salvage Prostate Cryoablation for the Management of Local Recurrence After Primary Cryotherapy: A Retrospective Analysis of Functional and Intermediate-Term Oncological Outcomes Associated With a Second Therapeutic Freeze. 
  • Salvage prostate cryoablation after primary interstitial brachytherapy failure: a feasible approach. 
  • Short Term Clinical Outcome after Laparoscopic Cryoablation of the Renal Tumor < or = 3.5 cm. 
  • Short-term cancer control after primary cryosurgical ablation for clinically localized prostate cancer using third-generation cryotechnology. 
  • Silicone oil in vitreoretinal surgery. Part 1: Surgical techniques. 
  • State of the Art: Interventional Pulmonology. 
  • Surgery for atrial fibrillation. 
  • Surgical atrial fibrillation ablation: a review of contemporary techniques and energy sources. 
  • Surgical treatment of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias. 
  • Surveillance after prostate focal therapy. 
  • Sustained closure of surgically repaired macular holes after retinal detachment with submacular fluid. 
  • The clinical implications of hypophosphatemia following major hepatic resection or cryosurgery. 
  • The effect of cryoablation on the histologic interpretation of intraoperative biopsy of small clear cell renal carcinoma and renal oncocytoma. 
  • The effects of hepatic cryosurgery on tumor growth in the liver. 
  • Transbronchial Cryobiopsy for the Diagnosis of Interstitial Lung Diseases: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report. 
  • Treatment of localised renal cell carcinoma. 
  • Treatment of retinopathy of prematurity with argon laser photocoagulation. 
  • Tumor size and endophytic growth pattern affect recurrence rates after laparoscopic renal cryoablation. 
  • Update on cryotherapy for prostate cancer in 2006. 
  • Urologic surgery. 
  • Urothelial sloughing with obstruction after laparoscopic cryoablation of small renal carcinoma in solitary kidney. 
  • Utilization of multiparametric prostate magnetic resonance imaging in clinical practice and focal therapy: report from a Delphi consensus project. 
  • Ventricular cryosurgery: short-term effects on intramural electrophysiology. 
  • Vitamin D(3) cryosensitization increases prostate cancer susceptibility to cryoablation via mitochondrial-mediated apoptosis and necrosis. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Fekrat, Sharon, Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Vitreoretinal Diseases & Surgery
  • Kim, Charles Yoon, Professor of Radiology, Radiology, Interventional Radiology