INTRODUCTION Data are scarce regarding pregnancy and delivery among women with a neurogenic bladder due to congenital spinal cord defects. OBJECTIVE To report the obstetrical and urological outcomes of women with congenital spinal cord defects and vesico-sphincteric disorders. METHODS A retrospective multicentric study included all consecutive women with a neurogenic bladder due to congenit...

Urachal anomalies are exceptionally rare. They can present in different ways in childhood as well as in adults. We present an interesting case of vesico-urachal diverticulum with alternating sinus. The interesting finding in this patient was the inversion and disappearance of the umbilicus at the termination of voiding

A significant number of preventable deaths occur during pregnancy and childbirth in developing countries where maternal mortality ranges from 500 to 1000 per 100,000 live births; for every woman who dies, an estimated 16 30 more survive with complications. Obstetric fistula can be considered the most tragic complication childbirth. WHO estimates that there are about 2 million cases VVF worldwid...

An eleven-day boy neonate with a fetal anamnesis of grade 1 bilateral hydronephrosis according to the grading of the Society for Fetal Urology (SFU), came to our attention for an acute osteoarthritis secondary to urosepsis. In the urological follow-up, a severe bilateral vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR) was diagnosed. An early post-natal, reno-vesicle ultrasound evaluation could have changed the cl...

Twenty-seven vesico-vaginal fistulae are presented. Cephalopelvic disproportion is shown to play an important part in their causation. Treatment was by vaginal repair in 17 cases, transplantation of the ureters in four, and reconstruction of the anus with closure of the vaginal introitus in one case. Three patients left hospital before their treatment was finished, and the completion of treatme...

radioisotope scanning is very important in evaluation, diagnosis and proper treatment of urinary tract infection (uti) and vesicoureteral reflux (vur) because of high sensitivity of this technique and less radiation dose delivered to the patients. this is a descriptive cross-sectional study to determine the frequency vur in a group of children aged 28 days to 14 years referred to our department...