BACKGROUND Patients with end-stage bladder disease can be treated with cystoplasty using gastrointestinal segments. The presence of such segments in the urinary tract has been associated with many complications. We explored an alternative approach using autologous engineered bladder tissues for reconstruction. METHODS Seven patients with myelomeningocele, aged 4-19 years, with high-pressure o...

Urolithiasis is a disorder in the form of crystals or stones urinary tract such as bladder that occurs both male and female animals. The condition formation calculi due to supersaturation urine consisting one several types minerals. A case urolithiasis Persian cat named Snow, female, 40 months old, 3.76 Kg, solid white hair color, came K P Clinic physical examination was performed by palpation ...

Awake filling cystometry has been used for a long time to evaluate bladder function in freely moving mice, however, the specific methods used, vary among laboratories. The goal of this study was to describe the microsurgical procedure used to implant an intravesical tube and the experimental technique for recording urinary bladder pressure in an awake, freely moving mouse. In addition, experime...

The bacterial causation of urinary calculi is well recognised in the so-called secondary stones such as the triple phosphates-In these cases the bacteria split up the urea, turning the urifle

breast cancer is the most common cancer in women except skin cancer. the common metastatic sites include lymph node, lung, liver and bone. however, metastasis to the bladder is extremely rare. to our knowledge, this is the first case of breast cancer metastasis to urinary bladder in jordan which is reported. nine years after the initial diagnosis of lobular breast carcinoma, the patient suffere...

An 89-year-old male presented with dysuria and oliguria. He had a history of benign prostate hyperplasia and neurogenic bladder under long-term Foley catheter use of 10 years. Recurrent urinary tract infections had occurred since then. The laboratory data showed acute renal failure with a blood urea nitrogen (BUN) of 57 mg/dL, creatinine 3.61 mg/dL (baseline renal function 6 months before admis...

OBJECTIVES To determine the value of ambulatory urodynamic monitoring in the assessment of patients with lower urinary tract symptoms. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study including patients who underwent both conventional urodynamic and ambulatory urodynamic assessment at our Center between December 2002 and February 2013. The ambulatory urodynamic studies were interpreted in a standardi...

thirty clinical cases of obstructive urolithiasis, 15 with intact urinary bladder and 15 with ruptured urinary bladder, were used to study the changes in peritoneal fluid cytology. the percentage of neutrophils was highly increased than the normal reference range reported for cattle with slight decrease in lymphocyte percentage. the value for neutrophil percent was almost similar in both intact...