Andreea Zaharie

Dr. Andreea Zaharie


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Academic Career Length

10Years (2017-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 January 2017 in International Journal of Surgery Case Reports
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FEFlorin Ioan Elec
Florin Ioan Elec
AZAndreea Zaharie
Andreea Zaharie
BEBogdan-Mihai Ene
Bogdan-Mihai Ene
LGLiviu Ghervan
Liviu Ghervan
Urogenital cancers are not an uncommon occurrence in daily practice. Prostate cancer is the second most frequent cancer in men, kidney cancer accounts for 2.4% of all cancers and bladder cancers represent 3.1% of cancers in both men and women [1]. However, the cases of a simultaneous development of all three cancers, including one with a neuroendocrine component, are very few and far between. Our case report involves a case of a patient with prostate adenocarcinoma, clear-cell renal carcinoma, papillary renal carcinoma and small-cell bladder cancer. The patient was treated as if he had separate pathologies by a multidisciplinary team: surgical and oncological, performing radical cystoprostatectomy with left perifascial nephroureterectomy, right ureterostomy and adjuvant chemotherapy, with excellent outcome even four years after the initial diagnosis. The distinct features of this case are the occurence of four different malignancies of the urogenital system, the family history of colon cancer, the development of small-cell carcinoma of the bladder, which is extremely rare and the good outcome, despite the quadruple malignancies and the aggresivity of the small-cell carcinoma. Mutiple primary malignancies are a relatively rare pathology, but should be considered as a possibility in patients who already had a second malignancy. Cases of patients with MPMs should be supervised by a multidisciplinary team and should be followed closely.

7 June 2020 in Diagnostics
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AZAndreea Zaharie
Andreea Zaharie
Sorana D. BolboacăSorana D. Bolboacă
Sorana D. Bolboacă
TMTudor Mosioiu
Tudor Mosioiu
BDBurghelea Dan
Burghelea Dan
GIGheorghita Iacob
Gheorghita Iacob
FEFlorin Ioan Elec
Florin Ioan Elec
Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for 2–3% of all adult malignant neoplasms and is even rarer in patients under 45 years old. Clear-cell carcinoma represents most of the pathological subtypes. Our study aimed to investigate the association between preoperative computer tomography imagistic evaluation and histopathological diagnosis of renal tumors in young adults. Patients younger than 45 years old with renal tumors who were referred for medical treatment at the Clinical Institute of Urology and Renal Transplantation Cluj-Napoca from 2012 to 2019 were considered eligible for the study. Medical charts were retrospectively reviewed, and patients with complete data regarding preoperative diagnostic, histopathological evaluation, and follow-up data, regardless of gender, were included in the study. Sixteen patients younger than 45 years fulfilled all the inclusion criteria and were evaluated. With two exceptions, the evaluated patients were in a T1 and T2 stage, with no vascular invasion or of the adjacent organs. Two-thirds of our patients had a clear-cell renal cell carcinoma. None of our patients fitted in the low complexity surgery category of the R.E.N.A.L. Nephrometry Score and 37.5% of them benefited from partial nephrectomy. Half of the suppositions made based on imaging were concordant with the histopathology report. Fifteen of the patients showed no recurrence during the respective follow-up interval. Computer tomography imaging reports showed on our sample a higher concordance with the histopathological report in the more common subtypes (namely Renal Clear Cell RCC), with typical appearances.

6 June 2018 in Urologia Internationalis
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FEFlorin Ioan Elec
Florin Ioan Elec
AZAndreea Zaharie
Andreea Zaharie
IVIonuţ-Lucian Vintilă
Ionuţ-Lucian Vintilă
LGLiviu Ghervan
Liviu Ghervan
Due to the progressive shortage of donors, kidneys with congenital anomalies are considered for transplantation. We report a successful transplantation of a split horseshoe kidney from a deceased donor by using the inferior epigastric artery with an end-to-end anastomosis, supplying the isthmus. Thus, we preserved as much as possible the functional parenchyma for a good long-term outcome. The learning point is that the use of the right inferior epigastric artery seems to be a good solution to perfuse the lower artery in order to avoid its ligation, thus reducing the nephron mass of the graft.

1 January 2019 in Urology Case Reports
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FEFlorin Ioan Elec
Florin Ioan Elec
AZAndreea Zaharie
Andreea Zaharie
GIGheorghiţă Iacob
Gheorghiţă Iacob
TMTudor Moisoiu
Tudor Moisoiu
DBDan Burghelea
Dan Burghelea
LGLiviu Ghervan
Liviu Ghervan