Factors That Influence the Judgment of Oral Management Necessity in Preoperative Oral Screening.

Oral management during the perioperative period is important to prevent the development of postoperative complications. However, there are no unified systems to examine the oral status of patients and very few studies have focused on preoperative oral screening. In this study, we examined the oral status of patients who underwent oral screening at a University Hospital.

Antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Japan, 1993-2002: continuous increasing of ciprofloxacin-resistant isolates.

Susceptibility testing was conducted on 1357 isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolated from 1993 through 2002 in Japan to assess the antimicrobial resistance. Selected isolates were characterised by auxotype and analysis was done for mutations within the quinolone resistance-determining region (QRDR) in the gyrA and parC genes, which confer fluoroquinolone resistance to the organism. Isolates with ciprofloxacin resistance increased significantly from 6.

Risk of elevated creatine kinase and myoglobulinemia due to incised muscles in patients who underwent urological surgery.

Purpose: We clarified the risk of elevated creatine kinase (CK) and myoglobulinemia during incised muscle urological operations.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 58 consecutive cases of radical nephrectomy with muscle incision and 89 consecutive radical prostatectomies or radical cystectomies without muscle incision. Operations with or without muscle incision were divided into 2 groups depending on operative time (200 minutes or less and 201 to 400).

Simple correction of ureteral stomal stenosis for cutaneous ureterostomy.

Cutaneous ureterostomy is a simple procedure to perform, but has some morbidity owing to stomal stenosis. We describe a new and simple technique applied to the stomal stenosis for cutaneous ureterostomy.

[Tuberculous epididymitis following intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy].

Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) immunotherapy is increasingly being accepted for management of some bladder transitional cell neoplastic lesions. Mild adverse reactions occur frequently. However, an unusual complication of tuberculous epididymitis is reported.