Intermittent self-dilatation after internal urethrotomy for primary urethral strictures: a case-control study.

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the effects of intermittent self-dilatation (ISD) on the natural course of urethral strictures after an internal urethrotomy.

Material And Methods: A retrospective case-control analysis of all males who had undergone a first time internal urethrotomy due to a urethral stricture in 1998-2000 at 15 urological departments in Sweden. Out of 217 included patients 162 were treated with internal urethrotomy only and 55 with internal urethrotomy followed by postoperative ISD.

High concentrations of organochlorines in a patient with kidney cancer and anorexia-cachexia syndrome.

Purpose: To determine persistent organic pollutants in adipose tissue in a patient with kidney cancer.

Methods: Adipose tissue was sampled from the abdominal wall during autopsy of a 75-year old man who had died from a kidney cancer. The concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), p,p'-dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDE), hexachlorobenzene (HCB), chlordanes and tetrabromodiphenyl ether (TeBDE) were determined on lipid basis.

Staphylococcus saprophyticus in males with symptoms of chronic prostatitis.

Staphylococcus saprophyticus was isolated in 17 percent (12 of 71 men) during one year, but with a peak in August and September to 21 percent in patients referred to the urology department with a suspicion of chronic bacterial prostatitis. Seven of the 12 men had S. saprophyticus in highest number at the prostatic level.

Long-term antibiotic treatment of chronic bacterial prostatitis. Effect on bacterial flora.

The bacterial flora in patients referred with chronic bacterial prostatitis were studied. Only 13% had Gram-negative bacteria in significant numbers but 43% had Gram-positives using the same criteria. Half of the patients were symptom-free by the end of a 12-week course of antibiotics and remained so after 6 months; in one-third the symptoms were unchanged 6 months after completing treatment.

On chronic prostatitis with special studies of Staphylococcus epidermidis.

Patients with chronic prostatitis have an increased number of white blood cells in expressed prostatic secretion. Two groups can be separated, one is characterized by uropathogenic bacteria in expressed prostatic secretion and recurrent urinary tract infections, chronic bacterial prostatitis. In this group an immune response to the bacteria has been demonstrated.