Encrusted Uretero-Pyelitis Caused by : Case Report and Literature Review.

We report the case of a 70-year-old female patient with solitary functioning left kidney and encrusted uretero-pyelitis caused by , which was treated by antibiotic therapy and oral acidification with L-methionine. We review the literature for similarly reported cases.

Extensively drug-resistant - a case series of urinary tract infections in immunocompromised patients.

Purpose: We report an outbreak of urinary tract infections (UTIs) caused by , which occurred in the largest clinical hospital in western Romania.

Patients And Methods: From June to August 2017, four strains of were isolated from the urine samples of patients hospitalized in the urology, diabetes, and surgery departments. Hospital records of all patients whose urine cultures were positive for were reviewed retrospectively.

Intravesical prostatic protrusion can be a predicting factor for the treatment outcome in patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic obstruction treated with tamsulosin.

Objective: To assess the effect of the intravesical protrusion of the prostate (IPP) on the response to medical treatment with tamsulosin for a 3 month period.

Materials And Methods: The study, which was conducted between 2009 and 2011 in the ambulatory clinic of an academic hospital, divided 183 patients with lower urinary tract symptoms due to benign prostatic obstruction in 2 groups (90 and 93 patients, respectively) according to intravesical prostatic protrusion (IPP): group A ≤10 mm; group B >10 mm. Patients were treated with tamsulosin (0.

Management of single large nonstaghorn renal stones in the CROES PCNL global study.

Purpose: We compared stone characteristics and outcomes in patients with a single large nonstaghorn renal calculus treated with percutaneous nephrolithotomy in the Clinical Research Office of Endourological Society global study.

Materials And Methods: Two statistical analyses were done, including one comparing renal stone size (20 to 30, 31 to 40 and 41 to 60 mm) and the other comparing renal stone site (pelvis, or upper, mid or lower calyx). Surgical outcomes, including operative time, hospital stay, stone-free rate and postoperative fever, were compared between groups.

Cytologic diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Comparison with endoscopical and pathological findings on 538 cases.

There were investigated 583 cases with tumors of the urinary bladder and 612 patients with non-malignant diseases of the urinary tract. Samples of voided urine were taken from all cases and direct smears fixed by drying were stained by rapid blue polychrome-tanin Drăgan method Cytological results were compared with endoscopical and pathological findings. The overall rate of real positive results was 91.

Anuria due to lithiasis associated with septic shock.

During 18 months 38 patients with anuria due to lithiasis were admitted in our department, 8 of them developed septic shock. Twenty eight patients were cured using different procedures and were released from the hospital with normal urinary output. Ten patients died, 6 of them from septic shock, which has a high mortality rate.