INTRODUCTION Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a condition of social dimension which generally pertains to women of various age. The only effective treatments of SUI are surgical procedures. The use of tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) ensures low invasiveness but also carries the risk of complications. One of the complications may be migration of the tape into the urinary bladder creating con...

Bladder calculies are stones or calcified materials found in the bladder. Foreign bodies that come into contact with urine may cause bladder stones. Examples of foreign body include suture materials, clips, catheters, ureteral stents, urinary incontinence meshes migration an intrauterine device. A 63-year-old female patient was admitted to our urology clinic dysuria, frequent urination and mixe...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate incidence and treatments of urolithiasis in myelodysplastic patients. PATIENTS AND METHODS During the past 27 years 303 myelodysplastic patients, 160 men and 143 women, have been treated and 50 of them were operated on with bladder augmentation procedures. Their medical records were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Urolithiasis occurred 20 times in 15 patients, 11 men...

Bladder stones in men are thought to be almost exclusively due to outflow obstruction. We studied the incidence of operations for urinary outflow obstruction and bladder stone to establish the relationship between these two conditions in Kelantan. In only 48 (31%) of 154 men undergoing removal of bladder stones was a procedure for outflow obstruction performed. Thus the remaining 69% had no cli...

OBJECTIVE To determine the safety and efficacy of transurethral pneumatic lithotripsy for bladder calculi in children. METHOD The study included 100 children up to 15 years of age undergoing pneumatic cystolithoclast for bladder stones. The descriptive study was conducted from September 2006 to February 2007 at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi. The inclusion criteri...