Novel rat model of stress urinary incontinence with a retroflexed bladder.

Introduction And Hypothesis: We created a rat model with a retroflexed bladder that mimicked the loss of the posterior urethrovesical angle and compared the results with sham-surgery rats for the establishment of rat models of stress urinary incontinence.

Methods: The retroflexed bladder was created by stitching the bladder posteriorly to the psoas muscle. Sneeze-induced urethral pressure response and urethral baseline pressure were measured using a microtip-transducer catheter and leak point pressures induced by sneezing, the Crede maneuver, and the vertical tilt table method were measured via a supra-pubic cystostomy.

Evoked magnetic fields as a tool to optimize therapeutic electrical stimulation of the sacral surface.

Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was used to measure the somatosensory evoked fields in six healthy males undergoing sacral surface therapeutic electrical stimulation, a recently introduced treatment for chronic urinary dysfunction. This study was performed to investigate the utility of MEG to optimize the stimulation parameters. Strong or weak electrical stimuli were applied to small or large surface electrodes placed over the bilateral sacral surfaces.

[Effects of urinary function and erectile function on the use of mecobalamin after nerve sparing radical prostatectomy].

Purpose: Mecobalamin has been reported to be useful for peripheral nerve disorder. There have been no previous reports of the effects of mecobalamin on urinary and sexual function after nerve sparing radical prostatectomy. We examined the effects of the use of mecobalamin on urinary and erectile functions after nerve sparing radical prostatectomy.

Primary somatosensory evoked magnetic fields elicited by sacral surface electrical stimulation.

To explore the brain response to sacral surface therapeutic electrical stimulation (SSTES) for the treatment of refractory urinary incontinence and frequent micturition, evoked magnetic fields were measured in six healthy males. Electrical stimuli were applied between bilateral surface electrodes over the second through fourth posterior sacral foramens with intensity just below the pain threshold. Somatosensory evoked magnetic fields (SEFs) for the bilateral median (MN) and posterior tibial nerves (PTN) were also measured for the comparison.

Intravenous extended liposarcoma arising from renal sinus.

Liposarcoma arising from the renal sinus is rare and there have been no reports of intravenous extended liposarcoma of the renal sinus thus far. We report a case of liposarcoma of the renal sinus that extended into the renal venous lumen. A 58-year-old woman was referred to our hospital for an intravascular fatty tumor of the right renal vein incidentally discovered by an abdominal screening ultrasonogram.

[Carcinomatous meningitis from urothelial carcinoma of bladder and ureter: case report].

Carcinomatous meningitis from urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and ureter is rare. A 77-year-old man with invasive bladder cancer and right ureter cancer had been treated with 3 courses M-VAC (methotrexate, vinblastine, epirubicin, cisplatin) chemotherapy. After chemotherapy we performed radical cystectomy and right nephroureterectomy (ileal-neobladder) (TCC, G3, pT3, N0, M0).