Genitourinary Tuberculosis: A Rare Cause of Obstructive Uropathy in Pregnancy

Genitourinary Tuberculosis: A Rare Cause of Obstructive Uropathy in Pregnancy

Background. A rare but morbid form of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB), genitourinary TB is an important cause of obstructive uropathy and is likely underdiagnosed in pregnancy. Case. A 30-year-old primigravida undergoing treatment for active pulmonary TB presented with anuria at 13-14-weeks gestation. Bilateral ureteral strictures above the level of the ureterovesicular junctions were seen on ...

[Pancreatic tuberculosis. A rare cause of obstructive jaundice].

Pancreatobiliary and peripancreatobiliary tuberculosis: a rare cause of obstructive jaundice

Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common and well-described infectious diseases, with a worldwide distribution and a vast spectrum of clinical manifestations. Tuberculosis involvement of the bile duct, pancreatic, periportal and/or peripancreatic lymph nodes is, however, surprising rare [1]. Patients with TB of the bile duct, pancreatic, periportal and/or peripancreatic lymph nodes usually p...

Endometriosis of the Bladder as a Cause of Obstructive Uropathy

A 47-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 1) with menorrhagia and pelvic pain was found to have an enlarged fibroid uterus and bladder mass on ultrasonographic imaging. The patient underwent an abdominal supracervical hysterectomy and transurethral bladder mass resection. Histopathologic findings revealed leiomyoma uteri, intramural adenomyosis, and bladder endometriosis. Most case series of bladder...

Vesicouterine fistula, a rare cause of genitourinary fistula.

Uterovesical fistulas are rare genitourinary fistulas developing secondary to iatrogenic etiologies. In this article, we report a a post-cesarean vesicouteri fistula with review of the literature.