Introduction And Objectives: The aim of this study was to analyze the weather influence on the onset of renal colic (RC), acute urinary retention (AUR) and testicular torsion (TT).
Materials And Methods: We correlated the daily number of RC, AUR and TT cases admitted to our urology department and weather conditions between 2005 and 2009 on day-to-day basis. Eight hundred and seventy-six RC, 453 AUR and 50 TT were analyzed.
Aim Of The Study: To determine the epidemiology of urological emergencies in a university hospital and the interest of a dedicated urological emergency unit.
Patients And Methods: In 2008, a dedicated urological emergency unit was individualized in our department of urology. We conducted a retrospective study including all patients consulting in this unit in 2009 with epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic data.
Purpose: We report herein the incidence of and factors predisposive to surgical complications (SC) after renal transplantation.
Methods: Between 2004 and 2008, we performed 200 renal transplantation. We retrospectively studied recipient and donor characteristics, cold ischemia time, surgical revision in the month after transplantation, delayed graft function, surgical complications (vascular, urologic, wound, or bleeding), as well as graft and patient 5-year survival rates.
Purpose: Although obesity has been shown to paradoxically increase dialysis patient survival, its impact has not been clearly defined on renal transplantation. We assessed outcomes of obesity renal transplant patients by evaluating graft and patient survivals.
Patients And Methods: A single-institution, retrospective study was performed on 202 renal transplant recipients from January 2004 to December 2008 excluding two combined kidney and liver transplantations.
Purpose: To assess urinary complications related to the "one-stitch" technique extravesical ureteroneocystostomy in renal transplantation, and evaluate the impact of such complications on kidney graft and patient survival.
Patients And Methods: A single-institution, retrospective study was performed on 202 renal transplant recipients, from January 2004 to December 2008. Two combined kidney and liver transplantations were excluded.