INTRODUCTION We investigated the outcomes and quality of life measures in men who underwent cystectomy and urinary diversion for devastating lower urinary tract toxicity after prostatic radiotherapy and/or cryotherapy for the treatment of prostate cancer. METHODS Records of patients who underwent cystectomy and urinary diversion for the management of a devastated lower urinary tract following...

OBJECTIVE During augmentation and Mitrofanoff procedures, conduits are usually implanted into the posterior bladder wall. Anatomical considerations may necessitate an anterior conduit. To compare the relative drainage efficiency in patients with posterior and anterior conduits, we studied their rates of bladder stone formation and urinary tract infection (UTI). MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrosp...

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...

OBJECTIVES To develop and test the reliability of a Thai version of the King's Health Questionnaire (KHQ). MATERIAL AND METHOD Three Thai Urologists forward translated the original English KHQ into a Thai version. Back translations were performed by an independent group of physicians. A consensus was reached on a final Thai version after comparing the original KHQ and various translations. Fi...

Bladder stones are frequently seen in elderly men and account for 5% of all urinary stones. They develop secondary to infravesical obstructions, such as prostatic hyperplasia and neurogenic bladder. A 56-year-old patient with frequent and painful urination, dysuria, and minor complaints of suprapubic pain was referred to our clinic. He was diagnosed with bladder stones by non-contrast abdominop...

Reports of cases of calculus of the bladder obstructing labour are difficult to find in the literature, probably because this is an extremely rare phenomenon. Smellie has recorded a case of a large calculus which was forced out of the bladder during labour, resulting in a permanent fistula. In his monograph on the subject in I875 Hugenberger referred to 23 cases. In many of them great injury oc...

B. K. was admitted to this hospital on 30th April, 1924, suffering from the typical symptoms of vesical calculus; he gave the following interesting history. Six months previously he had had an attack of renal colic, which was relieved by some subcutaneous injections, but retention of urine followed; a medical practitioner then passed a rubber catheter and withdrew the urine; he then filled and ...

cystoscopy and urinary cytology are currently the basis for diagnosis and ‎follow-up of bladder tumors. research to find a sensitive and specific tumor ‎marker for diagnosis of bladder tumor is actively underway, however, due to low sensitivity ‎and high cost of cytology. this cross-sectional study was performed in 65 patients to evaluate whether urinary bladder ‎cancer (ubc) antigen level can ...

.... The Framingham Study was the first attempt to discover just how commonly gall bladder disease occurs . . . in the United States. That such a survey should not have been made before 1966 is sad evidence of an apathetic attitude toward the cause of gallstones.... At the age of fifty-five to sixtyfour, 10 per cent of men and 20 per cent of women have gallstones, or, in absolute terms, 2.5 to ...