PURPOSE To evaluate the actual impact of testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) on patients with lower urinary tract symptom (LUTS), without benign prostate hyperplasia (BPH) medication. MATERIALS AND METHODS Two hundreds forty-six patients underwent TRT using intramuscular injection of 3 months bases injection of testosterone 100 mg undecanoate over a year. Among them, 17 patients had modera...

The association between metabolic syndrome and lower urinary tract symptoms has been attracting enormous interest and attention. This enthusiasm is based on the presence of many common risk factors being involved in both metabolic syndrome and lower urinary tract symptoms, as shown by various epidemiological studies. Metabolic syndrome and lower urinary tract symptoms have many pathophysiologic...

Urinary incontinence represents a serious social, medical and economic problem, which suffers progressive increase, due to the increase in life expectancy that health cultural advances have achieved. It is estimated world there are approximately two hundred million people urinary with great impact of importance can exceed coverage forecasts different systems care services. Our group from Depart...

conclusions multiple associations existed between atrophic urogenital changes and urinary incontinence. the most significant interaction was between urinary tract infections and urinary incontinence in menopausal women, with urinary tract infections increasing the risk of incontinence by 5.6 fold. we recommend health professionals to focus on early screening of these issues and implement educat...

Is this a urinary tract infection? Yes, it could be. Urinary tract infection should be considered in the differential diagnosis for infants and young children with fever. Several studies have shown that infants with urinary tract infection often present with fever as the only symptom. The probability of infection is high in young children presenting with the factors noted in Box 1. Ask about a ...

results at the end of the study, four 4 cases in the nelatone group and 12 cases in the foley group presented with uti (p = 0.01). no positive urine cultures were found in the control group. conclusions the nelatone catheters, compared with the foley ones, had a lower risk of uti in the long term use. verifying this claim by further studies can have an important role in reducing utis in patient...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the bacterial species recovered from 61 cats with lower urinary tract infection (LUTI), and their susceptibility to cefovecin in vitro. RESULTS The clinical signs and final clinical diagnosis for cats with confirmed LUTI were also reported. After physical examination of the cats, urine samples including ≥5-6 leucocytes in microscopic evaluatio...