BACKGROUND Urinary retention is a common postoperative complication that mandates urinary catheterization. Urinary catheterization is associated with different physical, mental, and financial problems for both patients and healthcare systems. The patient inconvenience, urinary tract infections, and increase in hospital stay and expenses are common problems of urinary retention and urinary cathe...

Case A 67-year-old man presented to the emergency department with painful vesicular eruptions on his right buttock that had been present for about 24 hours. He was diagnosed with HZ and discharged with a prescription for 1000 mg of valacyclovir 3 times a day for 7 days. The next day he presented to our family practice clinic with urinary frequency of approximately 20 times per day, small volume...

Complications in urinary tract nervous routes due to herpes viruses as VZV and HSV-2 are well known. Acute urinary retention and chronic neuropathic pain are not rare when sacral dermatomes are involved by these viruses. However, an analogous condition has not yet been clearly ascribed to HSV-1 infection. We present a 32-year-old immunocompetent patient with fever, lumbar pain and acute urinary...

The study aimed to determine the occurrence of urinary retention in patients using opioid analgesic and to describe the method used for vesical relief. A prospective and consecutive series of 1,316 patients undergoing surgery from September 1999 to April 2003 and using opioids post surgery were studied. From the 1,136 patients, 594 did not use urinary catheters pre-surgery. From these 594 patie...

Objective. To evaluate functional outcome of the retrourethral transobturator sling suspension (RTS) in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI) caused by prior prostate surgery. Methods. The RTS (AdVance male sling) was implanted in 32 patients who suffered from mild to severe postsurgical-treatment incontinence at the University Hospital Ulm from September 2010 to September 2011 inc...

Bladder leiomyomas are benign mesenchymal neoplasms and very rare urinary tumours that represent <0.5% of all bladder tumours, with only 250 cases reported worldwide to date [1,2]. Patients with bladder leiomyomas can be asymptomatic, but the majority present with obstructive symptoms (49%), irritative symptoms (38%) and hematuria (11%) [3,4]. The importance of recognizing their characteristic ...

INTRODUCTION Papillary cystadenoma of the prostate is a rare benign tumor that affects the prostate gland. It is usually a large size tumor and is located between the rectum and the urinary bladder. The benign nature of the tumor is suggested by the clear delimitation from vicinity organs. The patient usually presents with obstructive voiding symptoms, like: urinary intermittency, poor stream, ...

Cystitis glandularis (CG) is defined as glandular metaplasia of bladder urothelium. In most cases the course of CG is asymptomatic. However, some patients complain of hematuria and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) of varying degrees. We present a case of 45-year-old man with an extensive CG causing acute urinary retention. Although it was initially treated as an infection, prompt ultrasound ...

Labial adhesion occurs most often in infants and girls and is usually associated with low estrogen levels. Labial adhesion in the reproductive age group is extremely rare due to abundance of estrogen. Herein we present a case of almost complete labial adhesion with acute urinary retention in a 21-year-old virgin woman secondary to a probable untreated severe vaginitis.

Acute urinary retention (AUR) is a common complication of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and the incidence varies widely from 0.4 to 25% per year in men seen in urology practices. It has been estimated that AUR is the indication for surgery in around 25-30% of patients undergoing transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and that emergency TURP for AUR is associated with greater morbid...