Hydrometrocolpos and acute renal failure: a rare neonatal presentation of Bardet-Biedl syndrome.

The presence of hydrometrocolpos and postaxial polydactyly in a neonate can be caused by two genetic conditions; namely, McKusick-Kaufman syndrome and Bardet-Biedl syndrome. There are no distinct clinical features that allow discrimination between the two syndromes, as the cardinal features of rod-cone dystrophy, obesity, learning disability and renal dysfunction in Bardet-Biedl syndrome are age dependent. McKusick-Kaufman syndrome is characterized by vaginal atresia with hydrometrocolpos, postaxial polydactyly and congenital heart defect.

Penile implants in the treatment of organic impotence.

Objective: To evaluate the reliability and safety of penile implants in the treatment of organic impotence at the Saudi Aramco - Dhahran Health Center.

Methods: A series of 108 cases of organic impotence that underwent 125 penile implantation procedures between 1988 and 1997 was reviewed. The follow-up period ranged between 6 months and 10 years.

Penile implants in the treatment of organic impotence.

Objective: To evaluate the reliability and safety of penile implants in the treatment of organic impotence at the Saudi Aramco - Dhahran Health Center.

Methods: A series of 108 cases of organic impotence that underwent 125 penile implantation procedures between 1988 and 1997 was reviewed. The follow-up period ranged between 6 months and 10 years.

Laparoscopic varicocelectomy for infertility. An initial report from Saudi Arabia.

Objective: To evaluate laparoscopic varicocelectomy for the treatment of infertility in Saudi males.

Methods: Between January 1992 and July 1994, laparoscopic varicocele repair was performed at Saudi Aramco Dhahran Health Center, in 48 patients, 8 for pain and 40 for infertility.

Results: The 8 patients with pain improved postoperatively.

Laparoscopy for the impalpable testes. Initial experience of one center.

Twenty three patients with impalpable tests underwent diagnostic laparoscopy in our hospital between 1988 and 1991, in an attempt to evaluate this modality of investigation. Four of them had bilateral undescended, i.e.