Contraceptive vasectomy is a male sterilization technique by interrupting the continuity of the vas deferens. The primary endpoint of our study was to evaluate patients' feelings of vasectomy under local anesthesia. We collected responses from 108 patients who had a vasectomy under local anesthesia at the Center Hospitalier Annecy Genevois between January 1, 2020 and April 30, 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: In 2011 in France, all kidneys from patients with brain death and from living donors cannot meet the demand for renal transplants. Since 2006, sampling protocols kidneys from non-heart-beating donors (NHBD) are developed to increase the number of renal transplants. The objective was to describe the organization of a protocol NHBD in a non-university hospital.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn 84-year-old man presented to our department with a recurrence of a primary amyloidosis of the bladder 14 years after the first diagnosis. Follow-up had been stopped 5 years after the first procedure because no cystoscopic anomalies were noted. General evaluation confirmed the diagnosis of primary amyloidosis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Urologists have felt that the adverse effects of intravesical BCG-therapy have been more serious and more frequent since the use of the Connaught strain. The objective of this retrospective study was to compare the toxicity of this new strain with that previously used in France (Pasteur strain).
Material And Methods: After endoscopic resection, 89 patients with stage Ta grade 1-2 recurrent or T1 grade 3 and/or CIS bladder tumour were treated with 6 instillations of 150 mg of BCG Pasteur from 1992 to 1996 (50 patients: group 1) or 81 mg of BCG Connaught from January 1997 to December 1998 (39 patients: group 2).