Background: Incarcerated gravid uterus can lead to significant urinary obstruction and retention. Case: A 41-year-old multiparous woman presented at 16 weeks of gestation with urinary retention of approximately 6 liters. She had been misdiagnosed by multiple practitioners prior to her presentation. Diagnosis was confirmed by clinical examination and bedside ultrasound and the incarcerated uteru...

Duloxetine, a dual-reuptake inhibitor of serotonin and norepinephrine, has been approved for the treatment of major depressive disorder and for stress urinary incontinence. We describe a case of a 28 years old male patient with depression with no medical, urogenital, or psychiatric illness histories. He developed severe side effect of urinary retention following 2 weeks of treatment with Duloxe...

Since the first reports by Wang and Behar and others the use of epidu-ral and intrathecal opiates for pain relief has become widely accepted. The most common and distressing complication of this mode of anal-gesia is acute urinary retention, which occurs in 3%' to 100%'o2 of patients. We studied the postoperative urinary complications in a group of patients who underwent elective caesarean sect...

Internal iliac artery aneurysms are rare, but with a mortality approaching 50% in those that rupture, prompt diagnosis is essential. Often presentation is nonspecific; a wide variety of symptoms and signs have been encountered, illustrating a challenge in identification. We report a case of ruptured internal iliac artery aneurysm presenting as urinary retention. The importance of maintaining a ...

Eosinophilic cystitis is a rare inflammatory disorder, which may present with dysuria, haematuria, frequency, suprapubic pain and urinary retention. The findings may mimic other disorders like neoplasm, cystitis glandularis and neurogenic dysfunction. We report a case of eosinophilic cystitis in a 73-year-old woman, with spinal stenosis, who presented urinary retention, haematuria and overflow ...

The imperforate hymen is one of the most frequent malformations of the female genital tract. The clinical presentation varies from the asymptomatic form to symptoms caused by the obstructive effect of the hematocolpometra such as primary amenorrhea, abdominal and lumbar pain, constipation, dysuria and urinary retention. We report the case of an adolescent whose only symptoms were acute urinary ...

Herpes zoster-associated urinary retention is an uncommon event related to virus infection of the S2-S4 dermatome. The possible major reasons are ipsilateral hemicystitis, neuritis-induced or myelitis-associated virus infection. We report a case of a 65-year-old immunocompetent female patient who presented an acute urinary retention after four days under treatment with valacyclovir for gluteal ...

Hematocolpometra is one of the important cause in which there is accumulation of menstrual blood in endometrial cavity and vagina due to imperforate hymen in adolescent girls. Because urinary retention is rare in female patients, there is need for a thorough examination including ultrasound, CT or MRI to determine its exact cause and nature of fluid content. We herein present an interesting cas...