Giant intravesical calculus during pregnancy.

Urolithiasis is commonly found during pregnancy; but the presence of a giant vesical calculus during pregnancy is a very rare entity, associated with several potential obstetric complications. A 25-year-old primigravida at 25 weeks of gestational age was referred to our tertiary care unit because she presented a giant hyperechoic intravesical mass and inability to pass urine with suprapubic pain since 2 days. An open cystolithotomy revealed a huge intravesical calculus.

[Burch procedure: experience of 45 years of history].

It has been 45 years since John C. Burch first described his "colposuspension of the Cooper's ligament" technique for the surgical management of stress urinary incontinence. Half a century later, his legacy remains alive.