so. He was brought to the hospital at midnight and taken back home after he had his urine drawn. H-e refused to be admitted on this occasion. He gave a history of s3'philis about a year back. ., Condition on admission.-?There was complete flaccid paralysis and loss of sensation below the lumbar regi?n with retention of urine, the bladder being distended up to the umbilicus. Except the complete ...

BACKGROUND Sodium retention and ascites are serious clinical problems in cirrhosis. Urodilatin (URO) is a peptide with paracrine effects in decreasing sodium reabsorption in the distal nephron. Our aim was to investigate the renal potency of synthetic URO on urine sodium excretion in cirrhosis patients with sodium retention and ascites. METHODS Seven cirrhosis patients with diuretics-resistan...

H. G., a Muslim, aged 40, was admitted to the Uivil Hospital, Parachinar, on the afternoon of 14th December, 1932, complaining of retention of urine. The history was that for some months previously he had had some frequency of micturition with pain at the point of the penis on conclusion of the act; that latterly there had been some involuntary dribbling of urine; and that twenty-four hours bef...

BACKGROUND Here we report a rare case of lumbar spine epidural abscess and facet joint septic arthritis caused by Streptococcus agalactiae, which had spread to the iliopsoas muscles, leading to urine retention. CASE PRESENTATION A 68-year-old woman with low back pain experienced a sudden onset of bilateral lower limb weakness, it was followed 14 days later by urine retention. At consultation,...

Seizures can lead to different injuries ranging from minor lacerations to serious head injuries or bony fractures. We report a rare case of a male patient presenting with a history of a distended abdomen and gross hematuria following a seizure attack. After catheterization, the drained urine was bloodstained. On clinical suspicion of an acute abdomen, computed tomography was conducted, which sh...

In this HPLC-diode-array detection method for toxicological drug screening, a mixed-mode solid-phase extraction procedure is optimized for isolation of a broad range of drugs from serum and urine. Basic, neutral, and weakly acidic drugs are uniformly recovered. The extract from the solid-phase cartridge is readily injected to a reversed-phase HPLC column for separation by gradient elution. Unkn...

On 14th February, 1929, a Hindu male, aged 45 years, was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Coiinbatore, complaining of inability to walk, retention of urine and constipation. History.?Two days previous to admission he felt a slight heaviness of the lower limbs which the next day became absolutely paralysed. From the evening previous to admission, he had not passed urine or motions.