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Cureus
January 2023
Internal Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University, Miami, USA.
This case is described with the aim of informing about the high-level suspicion of bladder or urethral injuries in patients with traumatic Foley removal and their prolonged bleeding that should alert clinicians for a prompt urological intervention. A patient was initially admitted to the ICU with delirium and organ dysfunction due to an overdose of drugs. On the second day of his admission, he unintentionally removed his Foley catheter, which led to a course of gross hematuria.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Surg Case Rep
June 2022
Department of Surgery, St. Joseph's University Medical Center, Paterson, NJ, United States of America.
Introduction And Importance: Traumatic bladder rupture is a rare occurrence. It is more likely to occur following blunt injury and is associated with pelvic fractures in patients presenting with hematuria. We present a unique case of an extraperitoneal bladder rupture in a female after sustaining a minor fall in the absence of a pelvic fracture.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIndian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
November 2019
Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka India.
Renal cell carcinoma is usually slow growing with delayed vague symptoms and may not be detected until an advanced stage. In only 9% of the cases the classical triad of "haematuria, costovertebral pain and abdominal mass" is seen. Less commonly, sinonasal metastasis may also be the presenting feature of RCC.
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June 2018
Department of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation, Hôpital universitaire de la Conception, AP-HM, Marseille, France.
Background: Sickle cell trait is not completely benign, and some renal complications can occur. The baseline rate of admission for gross hematuria in normal males carrying the sickle cell trait is 2%.
Case Presentation: A 35-year-old non-smoking African man experienced a 2-week history of painless, profuse and persistent gross hematuria.
Int Braz J Urol
May 2018
Department of Surgery, Section of Urology, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH.
A rare condition in itself, acquired hemophilia A, seldom presents as isolated gross hematuria. It is a serious condition with a high mortality rate and thus clinical suspicion followed by prompt diagnosis is imperative (1). In fact, only 8 cases of such presentation of this condition have been reported thus far in the literature.
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