[Obstructive pyelonephritis caused by ureteral orifice catheterization with a bladder catheter].

This article reports a rare case of acute pyelonephritis secondary to left ureteral obstruction by a bladder catheter. The patient was 93years old man hospitalized in the hospital emergency department with a 39°C fever and pyuria from an indwelling catheter. Blood test found hyperleukocytosis, inflammatory syndrome and acute renal failure.

Overexpression of cyclin D1 is associated with poor survival in epithelial ovarian cancer.

Objective: In order to assess the prognostic role of the cell-cycle regulator cyclin D1 in epithelial ovarian cancer, 70 patients have been studied during an observation period of 8 years.

Methods: The cyclin D1 protein content was analyzed by Western blotting, and classed as negative, positive and highly positive by densitometric scanning. The relationship between cyclin D1 expression and clinicopathological variables was determined.

Kaposi's sarcoma confined to the colorectum: a case report.

Reported is a new case of a Kaposi's sarcoma involving only the colorectal area in an HIV-negative patient presenting with hemorrhagic rectocolitis. The colonoscopic examination and the radiological imaging showed the presence of multiple nodular pseudopolypoid formations in the rectum, which suggested, in the differential diagnosis, primarily a malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

Clinical impact of residual renal function on patients starting dialysis treatment.

We describe our clinical experience of monitoring residual renal function of patients on regular dialysis treatment as residual renal function can play an important role in the management of patients undergoing regular dialysis. With active residual renal function it is possible to delay the start of haemodialytic programmes. In managing dialysis treatments, it is important to maintain residual renal function by preventing hypotensive events.

[Endovascular embolization of ophthalmic artery branches for control of refractory epistaxis: report of one case].

Embolization of the internal maxillary artery is an accepted method for control of severe or recurrent posterior epistaxis. Such endovascular treatment may fail if the vascular supply to the bleeding vessels originates in branches of the ophthalmic artery. We report one case in which embolization of the ophthalmic artery was performed to control epistaxis.