Creating a diversion

Traumatic urinary diversion caused by gunshot injury in a stallion

A seven-year-old stallion with diversion of urinary pass to the thigh due to a urethral fistula caused by gunshot perineal injury was presented to the Urmia University, Veterinary Teaching Hospital. No signs of urinary obstruction or renal failure were observed. Because of inaccessible location of the injured urethra, through a perineal urethrotomy incision, a urinary catheter was effectively a...

Urinary Diversion

I am deeply indebted to the radiologists of the Royal Victoria Hospital, and in particular to Doctor D. C. Porter, for a great deal of help and advice, as well as for the X-ray examinations. I am obliged to the visiting medical staff of the Belfast City Hospital who have kindly allowed me to use their notes and X-rays in some cases. I owe the haematological examinations to Doctor M. G. Nelson a...

Diversion of Water from a Tailings Dam

Adenocarcinoma in a Koff Urinary Ileal Diversion

The use of an ileal conduit as a means of treatment for bladder cancer or dysfunction is widely used and understood. However, long term surveillance of that conduit has not been strongly established and set forth as a means of screening. We present a 76yo female with a history of neurogenic bladder secondary to paraplegia who underwent the formation of a "Koff" pouch as a conduit. Nineteen year...

Preventing Prescription Drug Diversion.

THE FACTS In 2013, more than 43,900 Americans died from drug overdose. Prescription drugs contributed to most of those deaths. Opioid pain relievers like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone were involved in more than 16,000 of those deaths (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015). Approximately 46 Americans die every day from drug overdoses (Jones, Mack, & Paulozzi, 2013). Opi...