Genitourinary amoebiasis is a rare form of kidney and urinary tract infection caused by Entamoeba histolytica. Here, we describe the first case of unusual infection caused by E. histolytica in Bueng Kan province, northeast, Thailand. A 63-year-old female patient was diagnosed as acute pyelonephritis. E. histotolytica trophozoites were accidentally found in urine collected from a catheter.

BACKGROUND: From August 2018 to January 2019, the baseline urine sample contamination rate at an acute care hospital emergency department (ED) was 51%. Urine culture is associated with unnecessary antibiotic use, repeat costs, and inpatient admissions. These outcomes can lead additional cost patient healthcare system while leading poor outcomes. METHODS: Culture results were reviewed project de...

We present here an atypical finding during an elective repeat cesarean section. Despite urine flow through an indwelling bladder catheter, bladder remains distended during the whole procedure. Unexpected anatomical variations and malformations can make routine surgery challenging. Urinary tract anomalies should be suspected in cases of unexpected difficult bladder catheterization.

OBJECTIVES To investigate incidence, rationales, related factors and outcomes for changing from appropriate catheter placement to inappropriate use among hospitalized older patients in the emergency department. METHODS A secondary analysis was adopted from a longitudinal study that was designed to follow the lifecycle of the urinary catheter among hospitalized older patients. Patients aged 65...

Abstract Background and Aims This study characterised the types size of sediment in clear cloudy urine subsequently investigated ability conventional eyelet intermittent catheters a novel Micro-hole Zone catheter to drain them. Method Clear was collected from three clinical studies where subjects drained with two prototypes catheter. The included 60 subjects, equally distributed between male fe...

pyelonephritis. Resolution was not possible in the presence of an enlarged prostate and an indwelling catheter as reinfection of the kidneys was inevitable; Cases 3, 5, i and 12 survived because the urinary obstruction was removed and the drainage tubes discarded. Infection recurred in Cases 3 and 5 because the chronically distended bladder had not had time to contract down sufficiently and com...

A female, aged 20 years, primipara, apparently in good health, 9 months' pregnancy with history of bad constipation, and passing abnormally small quantities of urine, was attacked with eclampsia. The attack began with convulsions of the face and then the extremities, jaws were tightly clenched, and when I saw the patient (on 19th February, 1918, 8-30 A.M.), she was comatose. Two-thirds of a gra...

All samples should be midstream and collected in a clean sterile container. Suprapubic aspiration or fresh catheter samples are ideal, but not always practical. The gold standard method of testing is to remove a small volume of urine from the sterile container with a fresh sterile syringe, and then apply the removed urine to the dipstick. In this way, the remainder of the collected sample conte...

Delayed dehiscence of a previously repaired bladder rupture in a 12-year-old boy is descr ibed. There was no obvious cause except that while in bed the boy had withheld his ear ly morning urge to pass urine. He presented with peritonitis and raised urea and creatinine levels. Retrograde cystography was diagnostic after the urinary catheter had drained 1.2 litres of blood-tinged urine. The rent ...

Purple urine bag syndrome is a rare disorder where the plastic urinary catheter bag and tubing turn purple. The discolouration is due to the presence of indigo and indirubin pigments which are metabolites of tryptophan. It is associated with urinary tract infection. Bacteria that produce sulphatase and phosphatase are involved in the formation of these pigments. Purple urine bag syndrome is ass...