High ligation to treat pain in varicocele.

Purpose: There are limited data about the effectiveness of surgery in patients with painful varicocele. We report a retrospective study done for the follow up on all varicocele high ligations performed for pain to evaluate the effectiveness of the operations.

Materials And Methods: The patients who were all physically active workers and who underwent high inguinal ligation of varicocele for pain from January 1995 to January 2000, were invited for interviews.

Bacterial colonization of double J stents and bacteriuria frequency.

Aim: Stents and catheters are widely used in urology. In our study the frequency of double J stent (DJS) colonization and stent associated bacteriuria is investigated.

Materials And Methods: Between June 2000-April 2001, 61 patients (17-72 years old) to whom DJ stenting was done (5 of them bilateral) were included in this study.