INTRODUCTION Helicobacter pylori (H pylori) infection is a focus of attention nowadays. It has been found to cause gastrointestinal disorders and also extra-intestinal disorders. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of H pylori in urological diseases and to keep urologists up to date in this subject. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medline and PubMed were searched from 1950 to December 2007 for...

Spontaneous bladder rupture is usually due to bladder diseases. Bladder rupture during labor or postpartum is extremely rare. Acute abdomen is the usual presentation of spontaneous bladder rupture. Patients may complain of suprapubic pain, anuria and hematuria. Some patients with intraperitoneal bladder rupture may have no abdominal pain and can pass urine without any symptoms so the diagnosis ...

Bladder stones affecting children, especially in low-resource countries. Dietary, environmental, genetic inheritance, and socio-economic factors the composition of bladder stones. Even though etiology is unknown, recent research has identified many risk that may assist this pathological condition. cystolithotripsy now become standard care, other approaches are indicated specific conditions. Sur...

Diseases of the gall bladder in childhood are of great interest. Recently, Forshall and Rickham (1954) and previously Potter (1938) drew attention to cholecystitis associated with gall stones. The majority of such cases do not present as acute emergencies. Fevre (1933) states that diseases of the biliary tract presenting as surgical emergencies are usually a perforation or volvulus of the gall ...

Fungus balls or fungal bezoars in the urinary bladder are extremely rare diseases, of which less than 20 previous cases have been described in the literature since the first case was reported in 1961. The most common predisposing factor for this opportunistic infection is diabetes mellitus. We herein report a case of bladder candidiasis initially misdiagnosed as bladder cancer based on its MRI ...

The recent introduction of radioisotopic technique to measure bladder emptying flow rate&` has prompted a resurgence of interest in the topic. Since no comprehensive description of bladder emptying flow rate (as a function of bladder volume) has been discussed in the literature, we present such an approach in this communication. The topic is of general interest since radioisotopic methods provi...

Bladder smooth muscle shows spontaneous phasic contractions, which undergo a variety of abnormal changes depending on pathological conditions. How abnormal contractions affect the activity of bladder afferent nerves remains to be fully tested. In this study, we examined the relationship between transient increases in bladder pressure, representing transient contraction of bladder smooth muscle,...

The ultrasonographic changes recorded in urinary bladder diseases recognize a high degree of specificity in accordance with the type and degree of the medical condition. Dogs with clinical signs of pollakiuria, dysuria-stranguria, hematuria, urinary incontinence, and polydipsia and polyuria were selected for investigation. In the present study twenty-two dogs were selected having urinary bladde...