Maintenance of the response to dimethyl sulfoxide treatment using hyperbaric oxygen in interstitial cystitis/painful bladder syndrome: a prospective, randomized, comparative study.

Introduction: Interstitial cystitis (IC)/painful bladder syndrome (PBS) is a difficult disease to manage and creates critical limitations in patients' daily lives. Our objective was to determine the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy in the maintenance of response after the administration of intravesical dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO).

Materials And Methods: We conducted an open, prospective, randomized, comparative pilot study with women diagnosed with IC/PBS according to the European Society for the Study of Interstitial Cystitis criteria.

Laparoscopic radiofrequency for small renal masses. What is the best imaging technique?

Objectives: The diagnosis of low clinical stage renal cancer has risen up during the last years thanks to the advances on radiological imaging tools. As a result, several minimally invasive techniques have appeared which offer the same oncological results than conventional/laparoscopic surgery without their morbidity. One of these techniques is percutaneous radiofrequency (RF).

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy for the management of hemorrhagic radio-induced cystitis.

Objectives: Radio-induced cystitis (RADC) is an inflammatory bladder disease that presents as anemic-hematuria in its most serious form. Classic treatments can not control the disease in the mid-to-long term because they don't treat the pathogenesis of the disease. Thus, we evaluated the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) therapy as a potential treatment for patients with RADC.

Hypebaric oxygen treatment in urology.

Objectives: Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) has been successfully used in several disorders derived from tissue hypoxia, due to the extra oxygen supply to the tissues it enables. In this manuscript we performed a systematic review including all the existing data published until 2010 about HBO in urologic disorders.

Methods: We performed a Medline search using the terms "hyperbaric oxygen", "radical cystitis", "interstitial cystitis", "hemorrhagic cystitis", "urological/pelvic fistula"and "Fournier's gangrene".

Giant bladder lithiasis: case report and bibliographic review.

Objective: Urinary lithiasis is a very frequent urological disease but bladder lithiasis is very uncommon.Patients usually refer voiding symptoms and hematuria. The diagnosis is made after imaging tests.

Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Bibliographic review.

Objectives: Large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of the urinary bladder is very rare. We intend to update diagnostic criteria, pathologic and immunohistochemical characteristics, prognosis and treatment options. All published articles related with LCNEC of the urinary bladder have been reviewed and a descriptive study has been done.

[Brucella spp orchiepididymitis].

Objective: To report a brucellar orchiepididymitis case and to review the diagnosis and treatment of this pathology.

Method: We present the case of a 62 year old man presenting with fever, testicular pain and constitutional syndrome. The diagnosis was made after ultrasound, blood cultures and anamnesis.