MANY RENAL transplant candidates with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) have bladder or ureterovesicular junction dysfunction, and without modification these candidates are considered to be poor candidates for renal transplantation (RT). Currently, many of these patients undergo urological reconstruction or repair before their transplant such as with ureteral undiversion to a previously dysfunctio...

542 Background: Patients with advanced primary or recurrent colorectal cancers that undergo total pelvic exenteration for cure or palliation require proximal urinary and fecal diversion. The most commonly used diversion technique is use of an ileal conduit (IC) and end colostomy. At our institute, the double-barreled wet colostomy (DBWC) has been shown to be have similar outcomes and technicall...

We evaluated the usefulness of urinary nuclear matrix protein 22 (NMP22) compared to urinary cytology in the detection of urothelial transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Between July 1999 and March 2000, 227 patients complaining of microscopic or gross hematuria were analyzed. Twenty-four patients (10.6%) had urothelial TCC. The urinary NMP22 level was significantly higher in the patients with ur...

Radical cystectomy (RC) with pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) followed by urinary diversion is the treatment of choice for muscle-invasive bladder cancer (BC) and non-invasive BC refractory to transurethral resection of the bladder (TUR-B) and/or intravesical instillation therapies. Since the morbidity and possible mortality of this surgery are relevant, care must be taken in the preoperativ...

THIS prize essay of British Association of Urological Surgeons is divided into three sections: Part I deals with attempts at construction of a sphincter controlled urinary reservoir. The operation of vesico-rectoplasty is described, and the case histories of the six patients upon whom the operation was performed are given. In four other patients the Gersuny technique was employed. Part II descr...

Aims of study: Diabetic bladder dysfunction (DBD), a collective description of clinical symptoms including decreased sensation, increased capacity, poor emptying, and also detrusor overactivity, is among the most common and costly complications of diabetes mellitus (DM). It is estimated that DBD occurs in approximately 87% of individuals diagnosed with DM, and substantially affects quality of l...

Mohsen Rouzrokh1*, MD; Atossa Tavassoli2, MD; Alireza Mirshemirani1, MD 1Pediatric Surgery Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University, 2Pediatric Neurologist, Ali-Asghar Children's Hospital, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Received: Jan 17, 2014; Accepted: Jul 10, 2014; First Online Available: Jul 20, 2014 Fournier's gangrene (FG) is named after Alfred Fournier who described ...