The present case highlights the presentation and management of hyperkalemia and acute renal failure secondary to polysubstance abuse related subacute urinary retention due to α-adrenergic and μ-receptor activation in a patient with Hutch diverticulum.

The buried penis syndrome in adults is a rare condition of different aetiologies. Today extreme obesity is considered as a major contributor. We present a case of a 30-year-old extremely obese patient (BMI 65 kg/m(2)) with purulent infection of the penile cavity, a phlegmon of the mons pubis and urinary retention due to a buried penis. Whereas acute complications of a buried penis in obese pati...

We herein describe a case of Wuchereria bancrofti infection in a previously healthy 37-year-old Nepalese man. The patient presented with a history of milky urine with subsequent acute urinary retention lasting for a few days. The presence of microfilariae was confirmed on both peripheral blood and urine smears obtained at midnight. He was conservatively treated with diethylcarbamazine combined ...

deadly speaking, there are two indications for prostatectomy. The first is some Phr^6 ev^dence of back-pressure either on the upper urinary tract producing hydroneat;0riSls> or on the lower urinary tract resulting in acute or chronic retention, trabecular] the bladder wall, or merely a very large residual urine, which in fact is the itiCo stage of chronic retention. The second indication for pr...

We report a prospective study of the factors associated with acute urinary retention after total hip replacement in 103 consecutive male patients. Eleven patients (10.7%) developed retention after operation. Of the factors investigated before operation three had predictive value: inability to pass urine into a bottle whilst lying in bed, urinary peak-flow rates indicative of obstruction, and a ...

Introduction Impairment of bladder emptying maymanifest as complete or partial urinary retention, and be either acute or chronic. The conditions under which retention occur are many and varied, indicating there must be many different causes which effect the same end result. Acute complete urinary retention is not uncommon following surgery irrespective of the operation site and is attributed to...