'Street ketamine'-associated bladder dysfunction: a report of ten cases.

Street ketamine-associated bladder dysfunction: an emerging health problem.

INTRODUCTION Ketamine is frequently abused nowadays as a recreational drug. Case reports are emerging since 2007 to describe a new clinical entity of severe bladder dysfunction associated with chronic abuse of street ketamine. CLINICAL PRESENTATION Severe lower urinary tract symptoms of urinary frequency and urgency which are refractory to conventional treatment. Quality of life is adversely ...

Bladder Rupture Presented with Acute Abdominal Pain and Renal Dysfunction: A Postpartum Emergency Case Report

Background:Spontaneous bladder rupture is a rare condition, and almost all the reported cases in the world have been preceded by bladder dysfunction, radiotherapy, urinary tract obstruction, pelvic surgery, inflammation, and malignancy. Case report: In this study, we present the case of a 39-year-old woman (G: 4, P: 1, Ab: 2) who was in week 38 of pregnancy and attended our hospital with the on...

ystitis and ketamine-associated bladder dysfunction

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Drug abuse is unfortunately on the rise probably due to easier access and lack of sufficient control and protective measures. A case in point is ketamine, basically an anesthetic agent taken via injection. The drug is abused mainly because it has a hallucinogenic effect. It is frequently used in parties along with several other drugs and alcohol particularly by young people. Individuals who abu...

Dilated common bile ducts mimicking choledochal cysts in ketamine abusers.

Substance abuse is a major health and social problem among Hong Kong youth and ketamine is the drug most commonly abused. Ketamine abuse is associated with a series of side-effects that include hallucination, nausea, vomiting, elevation of blood pressure, and urinary bladder dysfunction. Here we report three cases of ketamine abuse in which the abusers presented with recurrent epigastric pain a...