Eosinophilic cystitis is a rare inflammatory disorder, which may present with dysuria, haematuria, frequency, suprapubic pain and urinary retention. The findings may mimic other disorders like neoplasm, cystitis glandularis and neurogenic dysfunction. We report a case of eosinophilic cystitis in a 73-year-old woman, with spinal stenosis, who presented urinary retention, haematuria and overflow ...

Bacterial virulence factors influence the site and severity of urinary tract infections. While pyelonephritis-associated molecular traits have been defined, virulence factors specific for acute cystitis strains have not been identified. This study examined the virulence factor repertoire of 247 Escherichia coli strains, prospectively isolated from women with community-acquired acute cystitis. F...

OBJECTIVE To review the UK spontaneous reports of urinary disorders associated with tiaprofenic acid and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and put them into context of the usage of these preparations in the UK. METHODS Suspected adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports of urinary disorders associated with tiaprofenic acid and other NSAIDs received by the UKs spontaneous ADR repo...

In the period between October 1st and November 30th, 2006, we investigated a total of 3188 episodes of UTI (802 among males; 2386 among females) recorded in 108 family medicine offices in 20 cities in Croatia. The most common UTIs in women were acute uncomplicated cystitis (62%), complicated UTIs - cystitis and pyelonephritis (14%), urethritis (9%), acute uncomplicated pyelonephritis (6%), recu...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether polyomaviruses contribute to interstitial cystitis pathogenesis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A prospective study was performed with 50 interstitial cystitis cases compared with 50 age-matched, disease-free controls for the frequency of polyomaviruria. Associations between polyomaviruria and disease characteristics were analysed in cases. Polyomavirus in urine and bl...

Hemorrhagic cystitis is a common complication in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients. We report here a case of severe BKV-associated hemorrhagic cystitis who did not respond to intravenous cidofovir. Overt hematuria successfully resolved after a few days on hyperbaric oxygen and intravesical instillations of cidofovir, while BK viruria dropped after a few weeks and remained low. We re...

We examined the changes of two transcription factors, CREB and c-Jun, in dorsal root ganglia (DRG) after acute (8 or 48 hours) or chronic (10 days) cyclophosphamide (CYP)-induced cystitis. Results showed an increase in the number of p-CREB-immunoreactive (-IR) cells in the L1 and L2 DRG (5-7-fold; P < or = 0.05) as well as L6 and S1 DRG (2-4-fold; P < or = 0.05) after acute and chronic cystitis...

Hemorrhagic cystitis is a recognizable complication of cyclophosphamide (CYP) attributable to its lively metabolite acrolein, which produces urothelial injury. The study intended examine the uroprotective efficacy total ginsenosides in Chinese ginseng (TGCG) CYP-induced hemorrhagic cystitis. In total, 24 virgin female rats were randomized into four groups as follows: group 1 (control group; inj...

PURPOSE The pathophysiology of interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome remains incompletely understood but is thought to involve central disturbance in the processing of pain and viscerosensory signals. We identified differences in brain activity and connectivity between female patients with interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome and healthy controls to advance clinical phenotypi...