Urinary undiversion transforming an ileal conduit into an orthotopic continent neobladder: First case in our country.

Radical cystectomy (RC) with urinary diversion (UD) is still the standard treatment method for muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Type of UD is determined according to some characteristics of the patient and the tumor. Even in the most experienced hands, alternative scenarios may require an alternative diversion, including emergency UD for complications requiring immediate take down of the initial UD, tumor recurrence impacting the urinary tract or the UD, progressive impairment of renal function (in patients with a continent UD), malfunction/complications of the initial UD, and patient dislike of a stoma.

Long-term Effect of Colchicine Treatment in Preventing Urethral Stricture Recurrence After Internal Urethrotomy.

Purpose: Urethral stricture, known as a scar formation leading to urethral lumen stricture in sub-epithelial tissue, is the most common late complication of transurethral prostate resection (TURP). The aim of study is to evaluate efficacy of colchicine treatment in preventing urethral stricture recurrence in patients after internal urethrotomy, and to determine whether colchicine treatment had a sustained effect in decreasing stricture recurrences in patients with concomitant diseases.

Methods: Patient data with weak urine stream and/or voiding difficulty, and who had internal urethrotomy in Urology Department of Maltepe University Hospital between dates 01 January 2011 and December 2016 were collected.

The effect of smoking on spontaneous passage of distal ureteral stones.

Background: Animal studies have shown that nicotine affects the peristalsis of the ureter. The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of smoking on spontaneous passage of distal ureteral stones.

Methods: 88 patients in whom distal ureteral stone below 10 mm diameter diagnosed with helical computerized tomography enhanced images were reviewed.

Semirigid ureteroscopy: the effect of previous ipsilateral intraureteral manipulations on stone clearance.

We investigated whether previous intraureteral manipulations had an effect on the stone-free rates (SFR) after semi-rigid ureteroscopy (URS) with pneumatic lithotripsy. A retrospective review of all patients who were treated for ureteral stones at two different institutions from June 2003 through January 2010 was performed. Data of 161 URS procedures were analyzed.

Re: totally tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy: a prospective randomized controlled study.

The study is unique in terms of defining the safety of totally tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL). Furthermore, the authors state that the tubeless group has an advantage of less pain. However, we interpreted the results of pain-related comparisons different than that the authors had.

Perivesical inflammation and necrosis due to mitomycin C instillation after transurethral resection of bladder tumor: we must be vigilant!

The instillation of chemotherapeutic agents after transurethral resection of bladder tumor as an adjuvant treatment in bladder tumors is accepted as being safe if there is no associated bladder perforation. Mitomycin C (MMC) is a widely used agent for the adjuvant treatment of bladder tumors. A patient who developed MMC-induced bladder perforation and perivesical necrosis after an uneventful endoscopic tumor is presented.

Percutaneous nephrolithotomy: primary patients versus patients with history of open renal surgery.

Background And Purpose: Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is the management choice for stones larger than 2 cm or for staghorn calculi. PCNL in secondary or tertiary patients poses some difficulties. In this study, we compared these patients with patients who were operated on for the first time.