Fast-track access to urologic care for patients with macroscopic haematuria is efficient and cost-effective: results from a prospective intervention study.

Background: The delay between onset of macroscopic haematuria and diagnosis of bladder cancer is often long.

Methods: We evaluated timely diagnosis and health-care costs for patients with macroscopic haematuria given fast-track access to diagnostics. During a 15-month period, a telephone hotline for fast-track diagnostics was provided in nine Swedish municipalities for patients aged ⩾50 years with macroscopic haematuria.

Local recurrence and progression of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer in Sweden: a population-based follow-up study.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate recurrence and progression of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) in a large population-based setting.

Materials And Methods: Patients with bladder cancer (stage Ta, T1 or carcinoma in situ) diagnosed in 2004-2007 (n = 5839) in Sweden were investigated 5 years after diagnosis using a questionnaire. Differences in time to recurrence and progression were analysed in relation to age, gender, tumour stage and grade, intravesical treatment, healthcare region, and hospital volume of NMIBC patients (stratified in three equally large groups).

Small-bowel obstruction after restorative proctocolectomy in patients with ulcerative colitis.

Background And Aims: The reported risk of small-bowel obstruction (SBO) after major abdominal surgery varies. The aim of this study was to study frequency and risk factors of SBO after ileal pouch-anal anastomosis for ulcerative colitis.

Methods: Review of the medical records of 188 patients operated with restorative proctocolectomy between 1985 and 1997.