Chronic Urinary Retention due to Fowler's Syndrome.

Fowler's syndrome (FS) is a rare cause of chronic urinary retention in teenage girls and young women. We present a case of a 14-year-old girl who presented at our hospital 2 weeks after uncomplicated laparoscopic appendectomy. The girl complained of reduced urinary frequency and prolonged micturition time.

Adjustable continence therapy for female urinary incontinence: a minimally invasive option for difficult cases.

Aim: To assess the role of Adjustable Continence Therapy (ACT) as a minimally invasive treatment for women with urinary incontinence (UI) after failed previous incontinence surgery or when conventional surgical treatment was considered problematic.

Material And Methods: The ACT device consists of two balloons implanted at the level of the bladder neck using a paraurethral/vaginal approach with the aim of coapting the urethra. Balloon filling can be adjusted postoperatively via a port placed in the labia majora.

Insulin-like growth factor 1, chromogranin A and prostate specific antigen serum levels in prostate cancer patients and controls.

Objective: Insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) and chromogranin A (CGA) are currently discussed as supplemental serum markers for prostate cancer (PC) diagnosis. To address this issue we determined serum levels of IGF-1, CGA and PSA in men with newly diagnosed PC and controls.

Methods: A consecutive series of 156 men (median age: 67 yrs) with newly diagnosed, untreated PC and 271 controls (69 yrs) were recruited.

Elective open nephron-sparing surgery for renal masses: single-center experience with 129 consecutive patients.

Objectives: To present our experience with elective, open, nephron-sparing surgery for renal masses in a contemporary, consecutive series.

Methods: In this retrospective study, the files of all patients who underwent elective nephron-sparing surgery between January 1996 and December 2002 at our institution were reviewed. The preoperative workup included renal ultrasonography and abdominal computed tomography.

The enhancement by surfactants of hexadecane degradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa varies with substrate availability.

The rhamnolipid biosurfactant produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa influences various processes related to hydrocarbon degradation. However, degradation can only be enhanced by the surfactant when it stimulates a process that is rate limiting under the applied conditions. Therefore we determined how rhamnolipid influences hexadecane degradation by P.