Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) treatment has been used at Department of Urology, University Hospital "Osijek", Croatia, since July 1988. Until December 2001 seven thousand and eight hundred patients underwent ESWL for urinary stones, 68 of them were children (0.87%). Sixty-eight children aged 4 to 15 years (average 10.14 years) underwent ESWL. They were treated for the total of 91...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in urolith composition in cats. DESIGN Retrospective case series. SAMPLE POPULATION 5,230 uroliths. PROCEDURES The laboratory database for the Gerald V. Ling Urinary Stone Analysis Laboratory was searched for all urolith submissions from cats from 1985 through 2004. Submission forms were reviewed, and each cat's age, sex, breed, and stone location were record...

conclusions multiple associations existed between atrophic urogenital changes and urinary incontinence. the most significant interaction was between urinary tract infections and urinary incontinence in menopausal women, with urinary tract infections increasing the risk of incontinence by 5.6 fold. we recommend health professionals to focus on early screening of these issues and implement educat...

Introduction: Fasting is considered as one of the most important practices of Islam, and according to Prophet Mohammad, fasting is obligatory upon Muslims. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of fasting on urinary stones. Materials and Methods:Very few studies have been carried out on urinary stones and the effect of Ramadan fasting. The sources of the present study are Medline and...

Background and Objective: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by urease-producing organisms, including ureaplasmas may contribute to the formation of urolithiasis. We aimed to determine the frequency of U. parvum and U. urealyticum among urology hospital patients with urinary stones. Methods: The study group included 30 men with urolithiasis. Urine samples were examined routinely for bacte...

Eunuchs are biological males who have undergone voluntary castration. in India, commonly known as ‘Hijras’ and under-represented. The thoughts of pursuing castration arise from a variety reasons such to reduce libido, correct perception their dysmorphic (part the body is different shape normal) genitalia, or fulfill sexual fantasy. suffer urinary retention side effect Castration causes urethral...

BACKGROUND Studies that evaluate the effect of age and gender on the stone composition are scarce. The aim of this study is to highlight the modification of epidemiological characteristics of this pathology according to patients' sex and age. PATIENTS AND METHODS We studied 1269 urolithiasic patients ranging from 6 months to 92 years old and known as having urinary stones (752 males and 517 f...

INTRODUCTION The study aimed to explore clinical influence of prostatic stones on lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS), seminal plasma cytokines, and serum biomarkers. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 70 men aged ≤50 years with LUTS divided into 2 groups: group with stones (GSt) and group without prostatic stones (GNoSt). All subjects completed the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) q...

There are many causes for stones in the urinary tract (Melick and Henneman, 1958; Boyce and Bradshaw, 1961 ; Maurice and Henneman, 1961). These include the presence of urinary solutes in abnormally high concentrations (Hodgkinson and Pyrah, 1958 ; Nordin and Robertson, 1966), a variety of factors diminishing their solubility (Elliot et al., 1961 ; Howard et al., 1962; Metcalfe-Gibson et al., 19...

results at the end of the study, four 4 cases in the nelatone group and 12 cases in the foley group presented with uti (p = 0.01). no positive urine cultures were found in the control group. conclusions the nelatone catheters, compared with the foley ones, had a lower risk of uti in the long term use. verifying this claim by further studies can have an important role in reducing utis in patient...