Is it safe to continue antithrombotic agents before prostate biopsy?

Background: Whether antithrombotic agents should be stopped before prostate biopsy is unsettled. We investigated the impact of antithrombotic agents on bleeding complications after prostate biopsy.

Materials And Methods: Among the patients who underwent transrectal ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy from June 2006 to December 2013 at Ebina General Hospital, Kanagawa, Japan, 1817 cases were retrospectively assessed.

[Bilateral adrenal lymphoma with adrenal insufficiency: a case report].

A 65 year-old man visited the outpatient clinic of internal medicine complaining of fever and upper abdominal pain. Bilateral adrenal tumors were detected by CT scan and ultrasonography without any hormonal abnormalities. The diagnosis was bilateral primary non-functioning adrenal tumors because there was no tumor except adrenals with the detailed examinations.