Electric signals from a chest skin electrode can be conducted to the heart and activate contraction. In the present study, normal and diabetic rabbits were stimulated by skin electrode on the abnormal bladder projection area using three levels of exporting voltage (5.84 V, 8.00 V, and 11.00 V). Results demonstrated significantly attenuated electric signals from both groups, in particular the di...

INTRODUCTION Leakage of urine around a catheter is not uncommon in spinal cord injury patients, who have indwelling urethral catheter. Aetiological factors for leakage of urine around a catheter are bladder spasms, partial blockage of catheter, constipation, and urine infection. Usually, leakage of urine subsides when the underlying cause is treated. Leakage of urine around a suprapubic cathete...

BACKGROUND Some tetraplegic patients may wish to undergo urological procedures without anaesthesia, but these patients can develop autonomic dysreflexia if cystoscopy and vesical lithotripsy are performed without anaesthesia. CASE PRESENTATION We describe three tetraplegic patients, who developed autonomic dysreflexia when cystoscopy and laser lithotripsy were carried out without anesthesia.I...

8th October 1876, suffering from the symptoms of vesical calculus. The disease was of nine years' standing. The usual lateral operation was performed under chloroform on the 9th, and a stone weighing 2 oz. 2 drs. 8 grs. was extracted. For the first few days he suffered considerable pain in the loins, but had no pyrexia. By the 22nd?the 13th day?he passed urine entirely through the urethra, and ...

We present a male patient, 52 years old, with acute renal failure due to giant bladder stone. In first presentation with acute renal failure, tomography has shown a bladder stone with 10 cm in its largest diameter associated with bilateral ureterohydronephrosis. It was initially treated by bladder catheterization and indicated emergency dialysis and subsequently submitted to surgical treatment ...

La extrofia vesical es una patología ocasionada por el fallo en el desarrollo de la membrana cloacal, con exposición de la vejiga abierta y malformación genital. Descrita desde la antigüedad y con alto riesgo de recurrencia familiar. Los neonatos son intervenidos quirúrgicamente con buenos resultados para la función vesical y continencia, durante el periodo neonatal. Los primeros procedimientos...