Spinal cord injury (SCI) may lead to urinary system disturbances. Patients with SCI usually have neurogenic bladder, and treatment optionss for this condition include clean intermittent catheterization and a permanent indwelling urethral or suprapubic catheter. Complications of catheterization include urinary tract infection, calculi, urinary tract injury, bladder contraction, bladder spasm, re...

A 50-year old woman was admitted to emergency room due to an episode of recurrent renal colic. Double-J ureteral stent has been placed several weeks earlier due to mild hydronephrosis of the left kidney. She had a history of urinary tract infections and poorly defined abdominal pain. Abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan revealed normal left kidney and normal left urinary tract without calcul...

A seventy-one-year-old woman was hospitalized at our institution for a right-sided "renal colic" associated with an infectious background. Alithiasic ureterohydronephrosis was diagnosed by imaging. A urinary diversion was thus performed using a double J endoureteral stent. The etiologic assessment of the hydronephrosis showed the presence of a periureteral mass that caused extrinsic ureteral co...

OBJECTIVE The placement of indwelling ureteral catheters during colorectal surgery has been recommended for prevention of ureteral injuries. With the advent of laparoscopic colectomy (LCo), the role of preoperative placement of lighted ureteral stents (LUS) has also become commonplace. We sought to evaluate the value of lighted ureteral stent placement in laparoscopic colectomy. METHODS Sixty...

PURPOSE Ureteral patency in malignant ureteral obstruction cases is a therapeutic challenge. We report our long-term experience with palliative treatment for extrinsic malignant ureteral obstruction with percutaneous placement of metal mesh stents. MATERIALS AND METHODS From January 1996 to December 2005, 90 patients with a mean age of 59 years (range 35 to 80) with ureteral obstruction due t...

OBJECTIVES To describe the risks of ureteral damage occurring during urological and gynecological procedures utilizing energybased surgical devices (ESD) during both laparoscopic and open procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS During the last 20 months we observed five cases of iatrogenic ureteral lesions caused by ESD which required open surgery. There were 3 lesions of the lower ureter occurring...

A case of ureteral malacoplakia in a hemodialysis patient is reported. A 64-year-old woman suffering from macrohematuria, was diagnosed as having a right ureteral tumor by means of computerized tomography and antegrade pyelography. Right nephroureterectomy with bladder cuff resection was performed. Pathological examination indicated malacoplakia; multiple Michaelis-Gutmann bodies were found. Th...

Ureteral reconstruction can be challenging when done open or in a minimally-invasive manner. Ureteral reconstruction is a perfect use of the surgical robot. Here Andrade et al. (1) present a well-made and illustrative video that demonstrates the steps needed to complete a technically sound, minimally-invasive proximal ureteral repair. This will add to the body of literature and video instructio...

With 14 patients and 50 adult dogs, and using the recording method of the ureteral EMG referred in our 1st report1), the effects of the two muscular re laxants, succinylcholine chloride (SCC) and d-tubocurarine chloride (d-Tc), on the ureteral smooth muscle were observed. The ureteral EMG and the EMG of the respiratory muscles which belong to the striated muscles were recorded simultane ously. ...