Publications by authors named "David Garcia Ortells"
Primary vesicoureteral reflux is defined as the dysfunction of the vesicoureteral junction in the absence of any other bladder pathology. Most works in the literature focus on pediatric vesicoureteral reflux, paying little attention to reflux in adults. There is not much knowledge about the real incidence of this pathology in adults and there are few published papers about what are the situations in which we should suspect, perform a diagnostic work up and treat reflux in adult patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To perform a historical review of varicocele and male infertility with the aim to find descriptions that first related them. In parallel, we review the evolution of treatment for varicocele up to date.
Methods/results: We refer to multiple authors and their treaties on Medicine, from first to 20th Century, in which descriptions of these pathologies are found, focusing on descriptions of the surgical technique for treatment of varicocele and their application in Spain.
Objectives: To report the 7th case of pararenal angiomyolipoma published in the world literature and to review the international bibliography.
Methods: We report the case of a 46-year-old female with history of renal colic and a complex mass on radiological tests.
Results/conclusions: Extrarenal retroperitoneal angiomyolipoma is a rare pathology with no more than 7 published cases.
Objective: To present a series of 63 patients with urinary incontinence due to sphincteric incompetence who underwent the implantation of an AMS-800 artificial sphincter.
Methods: From 1984 to December 2002 a total of 69 patients received this prosthesis, 63 of which were available for review. The cause of incontinence was sphincter incompetence in all cases, said secondary to prostate surgery, neurogenic bladder, post-traumatic urethral lesion, and epispadias.