Hydatid disease, the parasitic infestation caused by the cestode, echinococcus granulosus involves mainly the liver and the lungs though no organ is immune. Genito urinary involvement has been found mainly in the kidneys and rarely in other structures such as, bladder and epididymis. Isolated retrovesical location of the hydatid cyst is a very rare condition whose manifestations appears after a...

PURPOSE The American Urological Association (AUA) symptom index was originally designed to assess the severity of lower urinary tract symptoms in men with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Data concerning the clinical application of the AUA symptom index to women are sparse. We evaluated the significance of the AUA symptom index in women with urodynamically defined bladder outlet obstruction. MAT...

PURPOSE We evaluated the correlation of lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of detrusor instability with urodynamic findings in men. MATERIALS AND METHODS Enrolled in our prospective study were 160 consecutive neurologically intact men referred for urodynamic evaluation of persistent lower urinary tract symptoms. All patients had storage symptoms suggestive of detrusor instability. Patien...

OBJECTIVE To determine if intraoperative frozen sections of the bladder neck during radical prostatectomy (RP) could decrease the incidence of final positive surgical margins at the bladder neck. MATERIALS AND METHODS This prospective cohort study included 51 consecutive men who underwent anatomic RP at University of Florida & Shands Jacksonville. All patients had intraoperative frozen sectio...

Lower urinary tract obstruction is defined as partial or complete obstruction of the urinary tract at the level of the urethra and the bladder. The posterior urethral valves are the most common cause, 9 percent of the fetal uropathies. The incidence range is wide, because of different databases show different populations. The most severe obstructive uropathy is in patients with kidney damage, o...

PURPOSE We studied the relationship between lower urinary tract symptoms as measured by the international prostate symptom score (I-PSS) and urodynamic findings in elderly men. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 803 consecutive patients with lower urinary tract symptoms via the I-PSS and urodynamics with pressure-flow studies. RESULTS A statistically significant correlation was found betwee...

Hypothesis / aims of study Both in congenital and in acquired neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (NLUTD), early diagnosis and treatment is essential as irreversible changes may occur, even if the related neuropathological signs may be normal [1]. This proposition is certainly the same for those with non-neurogenic LUTD. The functional classification for motor function of detrusor and sp...

OBJECTIVE To compare the function of the pelvic floor in primiparae before and during pregnancy with the status post partum concerning symptoms of incontinence, sphincter ruptures, bladder-neck mobility and the influence of the different modes of deliveries. METHODS Questionnaire evaluating symptoms of urinary and anal incontinence in nulliparous women before and after delivery and correlatin...

Urinary incontinence—loss of voluntary control over the retention and expulsion of urine—is a common medical problem in small animal patients. Incontinence occurs when pressure within the bladder exceeds urethral pressure. Incontinence may result from a variety of etiologies, including congenital anatomic abnormalities of the lower urinary and reproductive systems (ureter, bladder, bladder neck...

Bladder neck hypermobility is widely regarded to be associated with the occurrence of stress urinary incontinence. Several techniques have been proposed to quantify bladder neck mobility: Q-tip test, lateral cysturethrography, introital, rectal, vaginal and perineal ultrasound. Perineal ultrasound allows the dynamic evaluation of the bladder neck. It was shown that the bladder neck position can...