Behçet’s disease (BD) is an autoimmune vasculitis with an unclear etiology presenting with a classic triad of symptoms including oral and genital ulcers as well as iridocyclitis. A subset of BD patients exhibit neurological symptoms including psychiatric disturbances, balance problems, and voiding dysfunction, and the symptoms of BD can mimic other neurological diseases, including multiple scle...

One hundred and twenty-two augmentation cystoplasties performed over an 8-year period were reviewed. Mean age at surgery was 37 years (range 2-82 years). There were 82 female patients. The primary urodynamic diagnosis was reduced compliance in 92 (77%) patients and detrusor hyperreflexia/instability in the remainder. The clinical diagnostic groups were: spinal cord injury/disease in 32 (27%), m...

Infection stones are more likely to form after urinary diversion as the result of urinary stasis. To prevent urinary stasis due to encrusted pyelitis in a transplanted kidney, we describe an alternative a surgical treatment: ileo-pelvic anastomosis. In our patient with a transplanted kidney, the ileal conduit had previously been anastomosed end-to-side owing to renal tuberculosis with an atroph...

I have read, with high interest, the Jednak’s review article “The evolution of bladder augmentation: from creating reservoir to reconstituting an organ” (1), where the literature regarding this subject has been carefully taken into consideration. Particularly, about the tissue engineeringbased augmentation cystoplasty, the attention has been focused on the results reached by Atala and his group...