BACKGROUND To survey genitourinary (GU) organ injury following general trauma, we performed an epidemiologic study of urogenital injuries in trauma patients referred to our hospital (a teaching hospital affiliated with the Zahedan University of Medical Sciences). OBJECTIVES We aimed to assess the epidemiology of urogenital system injuries in southeastern Iran. PATIENTS AND METHODS From Apri...

METHODS One hundred and eighty-one parkinsonian patients were evaluated to determine if urogenital symptoms at presentation to the Neurology clinic can differentiate them as PD or MSA-P. An autonomic questionnaire was used to document urinary and genital symptoms. RESULTS Mean age at presentation and disease duration in PD and MSA-P were similar. Urinary symptoms occurred twice as frequently ...

OBJECTIVE To establish a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) protocol for the detection of urogenital C trachomatis infection and to compare it with the detection in cell culture. SPECIMENS Urethral specimens were collected from 62 male patients and cervical specimens from 106 female patients. SETTING Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg. METHODS U...

Urogenital infections are extremely prevalent during pregnancy and are an important cause of premature labor. However, the prevalence of urogenital infections during childbirth is not well known. Objective. Identify urogenital infections present at the beginning of labor in both full-term and preterm pregnancies. Study Design. Ninety-four women were admitted to the inpatient maternity clinic of...

BACKGROUND The World Health Organization, in the year 2009, renamed Schistosomiasis haematobium disease, urinary schistosomiasis, as urogenital schistosomiasis. This study, sought to determine whether urogenital schistosomiasis endemic community members were aware of the broadened scope of the disease and associated certain reproductive health related signs and symptoms to S. haematobium infect...

K. S. Thorneloe, A. M. Knorn, P. E. Doetsch, E. S. R. Lashinger, A. X. Liu, C. T. Bond, J. P. Adelman, and M. T. Nelson Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont; Urogenital Biology, Cardiovascular and Urogenital Center of Excellence in Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania; and Vollum Institute, Oregon Health and Science Uni...

Myiasis is the infestation of organs and tissues of human and animals with fly larvae. This article reports an 18 year-old man with urogenital myiasis, the passing of live Megaselia scalaris larvae in the urine, from Zanjan City, northwest of Iran. We discourse the importance of diagnosis and management of urogenital myiasis in medicine.