urethral prolapse: contemporary report on a modified ligation over a urethral catheter treatment approach

Urethral Prolapse: Contemporary Report on a Modified Ligation Over a Urethral Catheter Treatment Approach

BACKGROUND Most contemporary series on urethral prolapse report either on the use of excisional or conservative treatment approaches. OBJECTIVES To introduce a modified ligation over a Foley catheter treatment method for urethral prolapse that addresses most of the previously reported complications. PATIENTS AND METHODS Five consecutive patients with urethral prolapse treated between 2003 a...

Successful medical treatment of advanced urethral prolapse.

Novel Presentation of Complete Coronal Urethral Duplication: a Case Report

     Urethralduplication is a rare condition occurs as a congenital malformation either independently or in the setting of other congenital malformations such as caudal duplication syndrome. Its prevalence becomes even rarer if it manifests as two side-by-side tracts in coronal plan.Nonetheless, we introduce a unique presentation of complete coronal urethral duplication accompanied by astoundin...

Long-term urethral catheter drainage.

SIR,-On behalf of my coauthors, I wish to thank Sir Eric Riches and Dr S L 0 Jackson for their comments (24 November, p 1367). In our enthusiasm to persuade others to adopt the domiciliary approach to long-term urethral catheter management we did not stray into an account of alternative measures, some of which are better suited to hospitalised patients. Sir Eric and Dr Jackson have correctly st...

A Very Unlikely Finding in a Male Child: Urethral Prolapse

Urethral prolapse is a disease of prepubertal black girls and postmenopausal women with an unknown cause. It may be congenital in origin or an acquired condition. It has never been reported in males. We report a 10-year-old Caucasian boy who presented because of recurrent right undescended testis. He had been operated on for bilateral undescended testes 7 years ago in another hospital, and circ...

A rare case of urethral prolapse in a postmenopausal woman.

Green J, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-222182 Description We present the case of a 74-year-old postmenopausal woman presenting with a 5-day history of dysuria, pain, urinary frequency and urethral bleeding. Her previous medical history included hypertension. Obstetric history included one forceps delivery and one normal vaginal delivery. On examination, an irreducible urethral ...