background:  one of the most common infections in human is urinary tract infection  (uti)  and  uropathogenic   escherichia  coli   is  one  of  its  major causative agents . uti is extremely common among young women. children under age 5 are also highly at risk. considering the prevalence of this disease, it is necessary  to design  an appropriate  diagnostic  method  for its effective diagnos...

in the urine of a patient with chronic prostatitis, renal microlithiasis and acute cystitis we found the ciliate protozoa colpoda spp . , both in vegetative and cystic form. the entry point was most likely the urinary tract. keeping in mind that only four more cases of colpoda spp . existent in human urine have already been described, and that in the case of our patient the ciliate was present ...

In a Schistosoma haematobium-endemic village in western Madagascar we evaluated ultrasonography and Eosinophil Cationic Protein (ECP) in urine as means to detect the associated urinary tract pathology. 192 individuals were matched according to age and sex, and grouped into infected persons with bladder and, if present, kidney pathology (n = 96); infected persons without pathology (n = 48) and n...

This study investigated the relationship between urinary protein excretion in lupus nephritis New Zealand black mice and renal pathology. A total of 328 lupus nephritis New Zealand black mice were established by a backcross hybridization method, and renal pathology was determined. The urinary protein excretion of the backcross mice over 24 h was compared and analyzed. Urinary protein excretion ...

The clinical significance of different histological subtypes of bladder cancer is challenging. The presence of variant architecture identifies mostly a high-risk population with a worse prognosis and suited for complementary treatment. This review outlines the histological variants of bladder cancer and the diagnostic problems.

Case description: This report describes the simultaneous occurrence of fibrosarcoma and a urolith in the urinary bladder of a 12-year-old female terrier dog that was confirmed by pathology after excisional surgery. Clinical findings: The dog had some clinical signs such as frequent urination, hematuria and dysuria with an...

abstract   synchronous upper urinary tract tumor and superficial bladder tumor are uncommon. this is a report of a 62- year- old man presented with episode of painless gross hematuria and flank pain. we worked him up and found a left renal mass and bladder lesion. he underwent nephrectomy and tur-bt, and the pathology report of both showed a high grade urothelial transitional cell carcinoma. th...

THE PATHOLOGY OF THE KIDNEY INTRODUCTION Diseases of the kidney are divided into four categories depending on which component of the kidney is primarily affected; these are 1. Glomerular 2. Tubular 3. Interstitial 4. Vascular This division is useful because a. The early manifestations of each group of diseases tend to be distinctive. b. These groups differ in their pathogenesis, for e.g., glome...