PURPOSE To evaluate bladder histology in healing and biochemical analysis of rats with single kidney in ischemia/reperfusion, treated with tacrolimus. METHODS Fifty rats randomized into five groups. Three rats died in surgery, 47 rats divided in groups: Control (non-operated, n=10), Sham (operated without drugs, n=8), T1 (operated + tacrolimus 1mg/kg, n=10), T2 (operated + tacrolimus 0.1 mg/k...

increasing dysuria and discomfort and was passing debris. Various organisms including Proteus mirabilis, Candida albicans, Escherichia coli, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated on different occasions and he received a variety of antibiotics including augmentin, nalidixic acid, and gentamicin. He was finally admitted in November 1985 as an emergency with severe pain. Cystotomy was undertake...

OBJECTIVES Rectovesical fistula (RVF) is a rare complication of radical prostatectomy. A 57-year-old man underwent open radical prostatectomy with recognized rectal injury, primary closure of the rectal wall, and loop colostomy. The patient developed urine leakage per rectum after colostomy closure. We diverted the fecal stream with end colostomy and placed a suprapubic tube. An open transsacra...

Dört yıl önce başka bir merkezde sağ akciğerde kist hidatik nedeniyle kistotomi ve kapitonaj ameliyatı yapılan hasta, tekrarlayan hemoptizi yakınması ile kliniğimize başvurdu. Göğüs bilgisayarlı tomografide sağ alt lob posterior segmentte yerleşik kaviter lezyon tespit edildi. Hastaya, hemoptizi ve kaviter lezyon nedeniyle, tekrar torakotomi ve sağ alt lobektomi yapıldı. Patolojik inceleme bron...

BACKGROUND To analyze the diagnosis and the surgical treatment of intrabiliary ruptured hydatid disease of the liver. METHODS Between 1990 and 1995, 263 patients with hydatid cysts of the liver underwent surgery in a university hospital. Twenty-five (9.43%) patients with intrabiliary rupture of hepatic hydatid cyst were retrospectively reviewed. RESULTS Diagnosis was principally made using ...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to evaluate the results of parenchymal saving methods for giant lung hydatid cysts and to discuss the necessity of anatomic lung resection in childhood. METHODS The patients under the age of 16 years who were operated between January 2000 and January 2017 due to pulmonary hydatid cyst were evaluated retrospectively (n = 200). In all, 32 patients who had giant ...

A 25-year-old male patient was admitted to the cardiology outpatient clinic with atypical chest pain. Physical examination and electrocardiograms were normal. Chest radiography revealed irregular border of the cardiac silhouette, which was further evaluated by transthoracic echocardiography (TTE). Parasternal long axis view revealed mild local hypertrophy of the interventricular basal anterior ...

OBJECTIVE To review paediatric posterior urethral injuries and the current potential management options; because urethral injury due to pelvic fracture in children is rare and has a low incidence, the management of this type of trauma and its complications remains controversial. METHODS We reviewed previous reports identified by searching the PubMed Medline electronic database for clinically ...

OBJECTIVE To present our experience of treating supratrigonal vesicovaginal fistulae by laparoscopic technique and their long-term follow-up. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between January 2008 and June 2012, 28 cases of supratrigonal fistulas were repaired by laparoscopic transperitoneal transvesical technique with interposition flap. The obstetric fistula was present in 18 and gynecologic fistula in ...