Treatment-resistant priapism associated with long-term low-molecular-weight heparin.

This case report summarises the case of a 56-year-old man with low-flow, ischaemic priapism requiring urgent insertion of a penile prosthesis following prophylactic anticoagulation with tinzaparin. Low-molecular-weight heparin (LMWH) has been proposed as a cause of ischaemic priapism, although reported cases of this are rare. This particular side effect of tinzaparin has been reported once in a case report in 2018, and there are scant other reports of LMWH-induced priapism.

Testicular torsion in a patient with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

We present a 19-year-old man with a diagnosis of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) and a delayed presentation of testicular torsion. EDS is a rare and heterogeneous condition affecting collagen synthesis and presents multiple difficulties in a surgical setting. Management of this case of testicular torsion was complicated by impaired cognition of the patient, difficulty with intubation, a contralateral undescended testis and postoperative bleeding.

Twitter expands the reach and engagement of a national scientific meeting: the Irish Society of Urology.

Background: Social media is the interaction among people in which they create, share or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and web-based networks. This year, the Irish Society of Urology (ISU) expanded its involvement in social media with a preregistered Twitter hashtag (#ISU14) for the annual meeting.

Aim: The aim of this study was to highlight the use of Twitter at an annual national meeting held in 2014.

Glutamine preconditioning protects against local and systemic injury induced by orthopaedic surgery.

Introduction: Long bone surgery represents a significant surgical insults, and may cause severe local and systemic sequalae following both planned and emergent surgery. Glutamine offers pharmacological modulation of injury through clinically acceptable preconditioning. This effect has not been previously demonstrated in an orthopaedic model.