Cholesterol determinations in morning urine samples were taken in 235 selected patients with a positive test for microscopic hematuria. Values ranged from 0.2 to 76.0 mg (median 5.5) in 23 patients with urologic malignancies and from 0.1 to 33.4 mg (median 1.1) in 38 patients with various benign diseases of the kidney or urogenital tract. In the 28 patients with urinary tract infections and 146...

Individuals with spinal cord injury and other neurologic disorders have conditions that affect their urologic systems and their ability to store and empty urine. Urodynamic tests evaluate this dysfunction, but they have added risks of urinary tract infections and autonomic dysreflexia. A descriptive study investigated the incidence of urinary tract infections and autonomic dysreflexia in a larg...

UNLABELLED Urologic chronic pelvic pain syndrome (UCPPS) may be defined to include interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). The hallmark symptom of UCPPS is chronic pain in the pelvis, urogenital floor, or external genitalia often accompanied by lower urinary tract symptoms. Despite numerous past basic and clinical rese...

Priapism is an adverse effect of medications used to treat psychiatric disorders. Often, this condition is self-limiting but may require urologic intervention involving aspiration and injection to induce detumescence. A case of a 15-year-old patient with priapism secondary to a long-acting stimulant is presented to describe the effectiveness of ketamine treatment for priapism.

Previous concepts of immune-privileged sites obscured the role of peripheral immune cells in neurological disorders and excluded the consideration of the potential benefits of immunotherapy. Recently, however, numerous studies have demonstrated that the blood-brain barrier in the central nervous system is an educational barrier rather than an absolute barrier to peripheral immune cells. Emergin...

BACKGROUND Evidence from a genetic linkage study had suggested a possible syndrome in some families with panic disorder (PD). This syndrome includes bladder problems (possibly urinary interstitial cystitis [IC]), thyroid disorders, chronic headaches/migraine, and/or mitral valve prolapse. In 19 multiplex families with PD, one marker (D13S779) on chromosome 13 gave a logarithm of odds score of m...

Background and Objective: With the general population aging thus more patients developing bothersome erectile dysfunction, stress urinary incontinence overactive bladder, there will likely be a higher demand for three common interactive implants in urology, penile prosthesis, artificial sphincter (AUS) sacral neuromodulation (SNM). Further, prevalence of mild major neurocognitive disorders (als...

D iabetes and urologic diseases are very common health problems that markedly increase in prevalence and incidence with advancing age (1–3). Diabetes is associated with an earlier onset and increased severity of urologic diseases, resulting in costly and debilitating urologic complications. Urologic complications, including bladder dysfunction, sexual and erectile dysfunction, as well as urinar...

Despite years of basic and clinical research focused on interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), including clinical trials of candidate therapies, there remains an insufficient understanding of underlying cause(s), important clinical features and a lack of effective treatments for this syndrome. Progress has been limited and is likely due to many factors, including a primary focus ...