Research
and Publications
Our research findings are regularly featured in leading peer-reviewed journals, contributing valuable insights to the global medical community. NMARG also publishes comprehensive reports and clinical guidelines to aid healthcare professionals in delivering evidence-based care.
Konety BR, Bird VY, Deorah S, Dahmoush L.
Comparison of the incidence of latent prostate cancer detected at autopsy before and after the prostate specific antigen era.
J Urol. 2005 Nov;174(5):1785-8; discussion 1788. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000177470.84735.55. PMID: 16217287.
Bird VY, Khan SR.
How do stones form? Is unification of theories on stone formation possible?
Arch Esp Urol. 2017 Jan;70(1):12-27. PMID: 28221139; PMCID: PMC5683182
Wang K, Chen X, Bird VY, Gerke TA, Manini TM, Prosperi M.
Association between age-related reductions in testosterone and risk of prostate cancer-An analysis of patients' data with prostatic diseases.
Int J Cancer. 2017 Nov 1;141(9):1783-1793. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.30882. Epub 2017 Jul 24. PMID: 28699177; PMCID: PMC6169522.
Wang K, Chen X, Gerke TA, Bird VY, Ghayee HK, Prosperi M.
BMI trajectories and risk of overall and grade-specific prostate cancer: An observational cohort study among men seen for prostatic conditions.
Cancer Med. 2018 Oct;7(10):5272-5280. https://doi.org/10.1002/cam4.1747. Epub 2018 Sep 11. PMID: 30207080; PMCID: PMC6198207.
Lindeblad M, Bird V, Chardeton M, Yang M, Li Q-S, Liu H.
MP03-06 oxalate decarboxylase enzyme reduces hyperoxaluria in an animal model that mimics primary hyperoxaluria.
J Urol. 2019 Apr;201(4). https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000554938.18829.25.
Bird VY, Domino PM, Sutkowski R, Stillings SA, Trejo-Lopez JA.
Prostate Cancer With Metastatic Lytic Bone Lesions: Positive Bone Scan Post Docetaxel Chemotherapy in the Setting of Clinically Successful Treatment.
Urol Case Rep. 2016;6:12-14. Published 2016 Feb 22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.12.008.
Chen Z, Gerke T, Bird V, Prosperi M.
Trends in Gene Expression Profiling for Prostate Cancer Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review.
Biomed Hub. 2017 May 17;2(2):1-15. https://doi.org/10.1159/000472146. PMID: 31988908; PMCID: PMC6945900.
Kai Wang, Xinguang Chen, Travis A. Gerke, Victoria Y. Bird, Mattia Prosperi; Abstract 3227:
Getting rid of obesity in middle-to-late adulthood relates to lower prostate cancer risk: Another piece of evidence supporting the “rapid testosterone reduction theory”.
Cancer Res 1 July 2018; 78 (13_Supplement): 3227. https://doi.org/10.1158/1538-7445.AM2018-3227
Chen Z, Prosperi M, Bird VY.
Prevalence of kidney stones in the USA: The National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey.
Journal of Clinical Urology. 2018 Nov;12(4):296-302. https://doi.org/10.1177/2051415818813820.
Wang K, Chen X, Cheng TD, Qiu P, Bird VY, Prosperi M.
Association of Long-Term Dynamics in Circulating Testosterone with Serum PSA in Prostate Cancer-Free Men with Initial-PSA < 4 ng/mL.
Horm Cancer. 2019 Dec;10(4-6):168-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12672-019-00369-y. Epub 2019 Oct 16. PMID: 31621000.
Bird VY, Chastain-Gross R, Sutkowski R, Bird VG, Vyas P, Joseph R.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa as an Etiologic Agent of Nephrolithiasis in Deep Water Divers.
J Endourol Case Rep. 2017 Jan 1;3(1):4-6. https://doi.org/10.1089/cren.2016.0117. PMID: 28164160; PMCID: PMC5248537.
Tradigo G, Vacca R, Manini T, Bird V, Gerke T, Veltri P, Prosperi M.
A new approach to disentangle genetic and epigenetic components on disease comorbidities: studying correlation between genotypic and phenotypic disease networks.
Procedia Comput Sci. 2017;110:453-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2017.06.119. Epub 2017 Jul 12. PMID: 32318124; PMCID: PMC7172629.
Chen, Z., Bird, V.Y., Ruchi, R. et al.
Development of a personalized diagnostic model for kidney stone disease tailored to acute care by integrating large clinical, demographics and laboratory data: the diagnostic acute care algorithm - kidney stones (DACA-KS).
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 18, 72. 2018 Aug. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12911-018-0652-4.
Quintero, E., Buzzard, S., Ryan, A., Stevens, G., Klimberg, I., Bird,
V. PD38-01 a prospective, double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, cross-over study utilizing orally administered oxalate decarboxylase (OXDC) to reduce urinary oxalate.
J Urol. 2019 Apr;201(4). https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ju.0000556369.22974.
Stadler HS, Peters CA, Sturm RM, Baker LA, Best CJM, Bird VY, Geller F, Hoshizaki DK, Knudsen TB, Norton JM, Romao RLP, Cohn MJ.
Meeting report on the NIDDK/AUA Workshop on Congenital Anomalies of External Genitalia: challenges and opportunities for translational research.
J Pediatr Urol. 2020 Dec;16(6):791-804. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpurol.2020.09.012. Epub 2020 Sep 16. PMID: 33097421; PMCID: PMC7885182.