The aim of the study was to monitor difficulties being experienced by community nurses when removing suprapubic catheters in 94 patients living in two area health services in Sydney. The study identified one catheter brand (Simpla) that was associated with more pain and bleeding for patients, and increased difficulties in removal for the nurses. It was found that muscle relaxant medications tak...

Objective This study aimed to describe the utility, complications, and short-term outcomes of three dogs managed with percutaneous pigtail cystostomy catheters placed in emergency room (ER). Case summary Three were presented separately ER for unalleviated mechanical urethral obstruction secondary urolithiasis neoplasia. Retrograde urinary catheterization urohydropulsion not successful after mul...

Five different cutaneous papifioma isolates (215, 219, 233-A, 247, and 260) were used for inoculation of the skin and urinary bladder in 59 nonvaccinated and twenty vaccinated calves 2—6mo. of age. Some of the non vaccinated and all of the vaccinated calves were part of a previously reported experiment on immunity (7). Inocula were prepared as a 10 % isotonic saline suspension of bovine wart ...

Background: Although the breakage of a Sachse's knife blade is already a rare event while performing optical internal urethrotomy, a double failure appears to be at the same time a unique and a challenging complication to manage since no reference has emerged from literature review. Case Presentation: A male patient, 80 years of age, underwent retreatment of recurrent urethral stricture that oc...

We report a case of 63-years-old man with a chief complaint of urinary retention and urethral meatal bleeding due to straddle injury. Urological examination revealed proximal bulbous urethral disruption with 1 cm gap, and then cystostomy was placed. Afterwards, urethral disruption was treated by echo guided endoscopic urethroplasty. Transurethral resection of scar tissue was performed twice for...

Suprapubic cystostomy (SPC) is commonly used, instead of indwelling urethral catheter- ization, as indicated in many pathological conditions. Although considered to be a safe procedure that can be easily performed in an outpatient basis several complications have been reported in international literature. Bowel injury can be a serious complication with the small intestine affected in the majori...