Objectives: To study the pattern and demographic features of patients with urinary bladder calculi, in El Obeid Hospital; Western Sudan. Patients and Methods: In this study the recordsof sixty patients with urinary bladder stones were reviewed. The data were analyzed for age, sex, locality, clinical features, the treatment offered and outcomes. Results: The male: female ratio was 14:1. 53 patie...

BACKGROUND In male cattle, rupture of the urinary bladder is usually associated with urethral obstruction by uroliths. Less common causes include urethral compression or stricture. This case report describes the findings in a young Limousion breeding bull with rupture of the urinary bladder because of urethral compression by a haematoma after coccygeal fracture. CASE PRESENTATION The bull had...

Objective To report the management of urinary tract obstruction and infection in a pregnant woman with unrepaired bladder exstrophy. Case Report A 27-year-old pregnant woman with unrepaired bladder exstrophy was referred to our hospital with a complaint of bilateral flank pain in the second trimester. After two-dimensional abdominal ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging and a urine analysis,...

Between June 1980 and December 2001, 1076 kidney transplantations were performed in our department, including 29 transplantations on 27 patients with lower urinary tract pathology (Table 1). The average age of the recipients was 29 years (range 13 to 51) and the male:female patient ratio was 23:4. The etiology of the abnormal lower urinary tract was neurogenic bladder in 10 patients (meningomye...

Underactive bladder (UAB) is a symptom syndrome reflecting the urodynamic observation of detrusor underactivity (DU), a voiding contraction of reduced strength and/or duration, leading to prolonged or incomplete bladder emptying. An International Continence Society Working Group has described UAB as characterised by a slow urinary stream, hesitancy and straining to void, with or without a feeli...

ISSN 2168-8761 print/ISSN 2168-877X online ~ 64 ~ http://www.researchpub.org/journal/jbpr/jbpr.html Abstract: The etiology of lower urinary tract symptoms is poorly understood. The pathophysiology of detrusor instability, voiding dysfunction and pelvic pain in patients with non-obstructed bladder remains highly controversial. In the male, most cases of lower urinary tract symptoms are attribute...

BACKGROUND Hem-o-lok clips are widely used during robot-assisted and laparoscopic radical prostatectomy to control the lateral pedicles. There are a few reports of hem-o-lok clip migration into the bladder or vesico-urethral anastomosis and only four cases of hem-o-lok clip migration resulting into bladder neck contracture. Herein, we describe the first case, to our knowledge, of hem-o-lok clip...

OBJECTIVES To present our center's experience in managing bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) conditions using bougie dilators. We described the dilation technique methodically for teaching purpose. PATIENTS AND METHOD Retrospectively, a total of 196 medical records over the last four years denoting BOO conditions in men, women, and children were retrieved for analysis. Data reviewed for common ...