CONTEXT There is still controversy as to the use and dosage of antimicrobial prophylaxis of the urinary infection associated with urethral catheterization in the post renal transplant period. OBJECTIVE To determine whether patients develop urinary infection during short-term urethral catheterization after renal transplant without routine antimicrobial prophylaxis. DESIGN Prospective study. ...

He lays down the dictum that the worst case of urethral stricture can be treated tout d'un coup, without any painful preliminary treatment, without any perineal incision. He emphasises Syme's well-known axiom that, if urine comes out from a bladder through a urethra, a surgeon should be able to pass an instrument through that urethra into the bladder. He goes even further, and affirms that, in ...

Acute urinary retention in women is a rarely seen phenomenon due to pharmacological, neuromuscular, anatomical, functional and infectious causes. Human papillomaviruses causing condyloma acuminata is one of the rarely reported viral infectious cause of acute urinary retention in case reports. A 45-year-old woman with acute urinary retention was found to have a round solid lesion on external ure...

on palpation a hard mass could be felt near the anterior end of the urethra. Urethral obstruction was confirmed by failure to pass a fine rubber catheter further than the obstructing mass. The child was lightly ansesthesized and the obstructing body worked forward to the meatus by external manipulation. The meatus was incised sufficiently to expose the point of the obstruction which was then re...

Surgical treatment of urethral strictures is a continually evolving process, and currently there is renewed controversy over the best means of urethral reconstruction. Buccal mucosa graft (BMG) has gained much interest because of its excellent short and long-term results, low post-operative complication rate, and relative ease of use [1,2]. A number of series reported success rate of 87-90% usi...

Urethral stones are commonly associated with urinary tract calculi and underlying diverticulum or stricture urethra. Urethral stones, however, are rare and account for only 0.3 to 2% of all urinary tract stones.The present case concerns a 55years male patient who presented to our OPD with complaints of pain in the penis and burning micturition since 1 week. Patient had features of prostatism si...

Hypospadias is a highly prevalent congenital anomaly. English articles, indexed in PubMed, published the long-term sexual and reproductive outcome following hypospadias repair. Almost all repairable cases of hypospadias are operated in childhood. Although distal hypospadias does not interfere with fertility, it is worthy reporting a case of an elderly man, who fathers 12 children and has no uro...

Urethral duplication is a very rare congenital anomaly. Urethral duplication is seen most commonly in the sagittal plane. We report a rare case of complete urethral duplication in the coronal plane with no other associated anomalies. Surgical correction of this coronal urethral duplication resulted in a normal-appearing penis and good functional outcome with a single midline urethral meatus and...

The meatal advancement and glanduloplasty (MAGPI) procedure was first described in 1981 for the repair of distal hypospadias. In the past decade, our experience has grown to more than 1000 procedures. An excellent surgical result requires careful case selection, avoiding cases with thin or rigid ventral parameatal skin or a meatus too proximal or too wide. The glans wrap to support the advanced...