Risk factors for overactive bladder in the elderly population: a community-based study with face-to-face interview.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to measure the prevalence of and risk factors for overactive bladder (OAB) in the elderly.

Methods: A cross-sectional study of elderly subjects was conducted by analyzing data from a community-based Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment on people aged 70 years or older. Trained interviewers performed face-to-face interviews for the assessment of urological symptoms.

Fresh testicular sperm retrieved from men with spinal cord injury retains equal fecundity to that from men with obstructive azoospermia via intracytoplasmic sperm injection.

Objective: To examine the outcomes of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) with testicular sperm retrieved from men with spinal cord injury.

Design: Retrospective study.

Setting: Private hospital-based infertility research laboratory.

[Pulmonary and lymph node metastases of renal cell carcinoma which completely responded to oral administration of UFT--a case report].

In April 2003, a 59-year-old woman suffering from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) underwent radical nephrectomy (Stage I). In October 2004, bilateral lower lobe lung tumors were resected with thoracoscopic assistance. Histologically, resected specimens were diagnosed as metastases from RCC.

Spontaneous rupture of adrenal pheochromocytoma with capsular invasion.

A 67-year-old Japanese man developed a sudden onset of severe right-side upper abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. On hospitalization, physical examination revealed sweating, tachycardia, hypertension and the appearance of peripheral vasoconstriction. An urgent computed tomography scan with contrast demonstrated a large hematoma in the right retroperitoneal space.

Acute eosinophilic pneumonia associated with intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin therapy of carcinoma in situ of the bladder.

A 71-year-old man with a history of rheumatoid arthritis was treated with intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) instillation of 80 mg once-a-week for carcinoma in situ. He developed low-grade fever followed by dyspnea and severe hypoxemia. Radiological and laboratory studies revealed bilateral diffuse reticulonodular infiltrates and hypereosinophilia.

Health-related quality of life after radical prostatectomy in Japanese men with localized prostate cancer.

Purpose: We evaluated retrospectively health-related quality of life (HRQOL) after radical prostatectomy (RP) in Japanese men with localized prostate cancer.

Methods: The study was based on self-reported HRQOL of 280 patients. Patients were divided into seven groups: time 0 (T0), baseline before operation; T1, 1-3 months after RP; T2, 4-6 months after RP; T3, 7-12 months after RP; T4, 13-24 months after RP; T5, 25-36 months after RP; and T6, more than 36 months after RP.