URETHRAL INSTRUMENTATION IN GENERAL PRACTICE

[Prophylactic oral antibiotics in urethral instrumentation].

Between July 1990 and December 1992, the incidence of infection after 1,249 urethral manipulations on patients, who had no urinary infection before the manipulation, was studied. Infections developed in 21 patients (1.7%). The prophylactic 3-day antimicrobial medication reduced the development of infection to 5/790 (0.6%), in contrast to 16/459 (3.5%) among patients who did not take the prophyl...

JavaScript Instrumentation in Practice

JavaScript provides useful client-side computation facilities, enabling richer and more dynamic web applications. Unfortunately, the power and ubiquity of JavaScript has also been exploited to launch various browser-based attacks. Our previous work proposed a theoretical framework applying policy-based code instrumentation to JavaScript. This paper further reports our experience carrying out th...

Current Practice Posterior urethral valves

Posterior urethral valves (PUV) are the commonest cause of bladder outlet obstruction in children. With improvement of primary health care and widespread use of ultrasonography during antenatal check-up, early diagnosis of PUV has increased. The first description of PUV was made in 1919 by Hugh Hampton Young 1 . PUV represents a spectrum of severity, ranging from disease incompatible with postn...

Intra urethral human papillomavirus related warts following urinary tract instrumentation.

Received August 2012 Accepted July 2013 St Helen's and Knowsley Teaching Hospital NHS Trust, England. A 68‎years‎old‎man‎with‎a‎history‎of‎a‎G3pT1‎transitional‎cell‎carcinoma‎(TCC)‎with‎a‎carcinoma‎in‎situ‎component‎ of‎his‎bladder‎was‎noted‎to‎have‎intraurethral‎tumor‎on‎follow-up‎flexible‎cystoscopy‎(Figures‎1‎and‎2),‎with‎the‎ suspicion‎of‎recurrence‎of‎his‎TCC‎being‎raised.‎These‎lesions‎we...

Acute Infections of the Urinary Tract and the Urethral Syndrome in General Practice.