Labial adhesion/fusion is an uncommon cause of urinary and vulval complaints in adult females, with unknown incidence. We present a case report elderly woman who presented voiding difficulty, recurrent tract infection (UTI) incontinence. She was treated by surgical division the adhesions had complete resolution her symptoms.

Practice Pointers Approximately 7% of girls and 2% of boys will have had a symptomatic UTI by six years of age.1 Potential complications of UTI in children include urosepsis, renal abscess, and renal scarring. Guidelines recommend varying durations of treatment, ranging from five to seven days2 to seven to 14 days.3 A 2003 Cochrane review of studies comparing different treatment durations of th...

Cranberry has been used traditionally to prevent urinary tract infections (UTIs), primarily among generally healthy women prone to recurrent UTIs. Results from a number of published clinical studies have supported this benefit; however, meta-analyses on cranberry and UTI prevention have reported conflicting conclusions. This article explores the methodological differences that contributed to th...

The followings are the level of evidence (LE) and grade recommendation (GR) on pediatric UTI in Asia. Classification according to sites infection (lower versus upper tract), number episode (first recurrent), severity (simple severe), or existence complicating factor (uncomplicated complicated) is useful differentiate children with whether they at risk renal damage not (LE: 2, GR: B). Diagnosis ...

Urinary tract infection (UTI) is a common disease in childhood specially in female. In this study 50 patients with stablished diagnosis of UTI were evaluated by both renal scan with Tc-99m DMSA and renal sonography. The study revealed that most urinary tract infections are in children, Female sex between 5-9 years of age. Therefore the most important complications (Renal scarring) are als...

OBJECTIVES We do not know how representative reported levels of resistance to antibiotics in urinary tract infections (UTIs) are as there is wide variation in the rate of urine specimens submitted to microbiology laboratories by general practices. We used a questionnaire to investigate variation in sampling for patients with suspected UTI to explore any systematic bias that may influence interp...

BACKGROUND Urinary tract infection (UTI) occurs in 30%-50% of individuals with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). However, the clinical relevance of asymptomatic pyuria in ADPKD patients remains unknown. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 256 ADPKD patients who registered to the ADPKD clinic at Seoul National University Hospital from Aug 1999 to Aug 2010...

BACKGROUND Little generalizable information is available on the outcomes of children diagnosed with bladder and bowel dysfunction (BBD) after a urinary tract infection (UTI). Our objectives were to describe the clinical characteristics of children with BBD and to examine the effects of BBD on patient outcomes in children with and without vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). METHODS We combined data f...

To identify bacterial predictors of recurrence and/or persistence in acute cystitis, extended virulence genotypes were compared with clonal background and epidemiologic status among 74 Escherichia coli urine isolates from women with first or recurrent episodes of urinary tract infection (UTI). Sequential isolates from patients with recurrent UTI were classified, using macrorestriction analysis,...