Complications and urologic risks of neurogenic bladder in veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury.

Objectives: This observational study aimed to determine the types of urological lesion encountered in veterans with traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI) with neurogenic bladder (NGB), and the usage of bladder management programs to deal with NGB.

Setting: NGB (detrusor muscle and urethral sphincter dysfunction with loss of bladder sensation to void) is common in daily practice; however, information on types of urological lesions encountered in these veterans with NGB and how best to manage their NGB is limited.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the electronic charts of veterans with SCI enrolled in our program and regularly followed in our SCI clinic.

Driver safety in older adults. The physician's role in assessing driving skills of older patients.

Physicians play an important role in addressing driving safety issues with their patients. This is especially true when age-associated changes, medical conditions and medications are likely to increase crash risk. Unfortunately, physicians have little or no training in determining crash risk.

Sporadic colonic hamartomas in adults: a retrospective study.

Background: Colonic hamartomas are uncommon in adults. The aims of this study were to determine (1) the prevalence of colonic hamartomas in an adult population undergoing colonoscopy and (2) the clinical, endoscopic, and histologic features of colonic hamartomas in adult patients.

Methods: A pathology database identified 19 adult patients of 12,707 patients with colonic hamartomas in the 11-year study period from January 1992 to October 2002.