Macroplastique for women with stress urinary incontinence secondary to intrinsic sphincter deficiency

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the subjective and objective outcomes of Macroplastique® (MPQ) in women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI) secondary to intrinsic sphincter deficiency (ISD). Materials and Methods Following Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval, charts of non-neurogenic women with SUI secondary to ISD who underwent MPQ injection and had 6 months minimum follow-up were reviewed from a prospectively maintained database. Patients were divided into 3 groups: Naïve (Group I), Prior Anti-Incontinence Surgery (Group II), and combined Prior Bulking Agent and Anti-Incontinence Surgery (Group III). Data collected included SUI self-report, Urogenital Distress Inventory (UDI-6) Question 3, and VAS Quality of Life (QoL) Questionnaire scores at baseline and in follow-up. Three-dimensional ultrasound (3DUS) evaluated volume/configuration of MPQ. Success was defined after the last MPQ injection as a UDI-6 Question 3 score of 0 (dry) or 1, and no reoperation for SUI. Results From 2011-2017, 106 of 142 women met study criteria. At a median follow-up of 20 months (mean=26 months; range: 6-71), success rate was 41% for Group I, 40% for Group II, and 65% for Group III (p = 0.22). QoL scores were significantly improved over baseline in all groups. There was no significant difference in clinical outcome between the asymmetrical and symmetrical group on 3DUS. The completely dry rate was highest in Group III at 29%, compared to 4% for Group I and 15% for Group II (p = 0.05). Conclusion Macroplastique® improved subjective and objective outcome measures for SUI secondary to ISD as both a primary and secondary treatment option in women.

Cálculo gigante enclavado en meato uretral femenino: resolución en área de urgencias / Giant calculus located in the female urethral meatus: resolution in an emergency setting

Objetivo: Comunicar un caso inusual de cálculo uretral femenino gigante enclavado en meato, que debutó por sangrado genital, sin retención urinaria ni síntomas miccionales. El cálculo era visible en el introito. Se efectuó tratamiento resolutivo en el área de urgencias, cursándose el alta a las pocas horas. Métodos: Se presenta el caso de una paciente de 82 años, con antecedentes remotos de cirugía vesical, que acudió a urgencias por sangrado genital. Valorada por Ginecología se apreció un gran cálculo uretral que a¬ oraba por el meato, derivándose a Urología. Tras la exploración física se solicitó radiografía simple de pelvis donde se apreció un gran calculo uretral de 6 x 4 cm. Bajo anestesia local se practicó meatotomía inferior con luxación y extracción del cálculo; siendo dada de alta a continuación con sonda vesical hasta la cicatrización de la herida. Resultados: La evolución tras el “parto del cálculo” fue favorable. Se cursó el alta con sonda vesical a las pocas horas de la extracción litiásica. Acudió nuevamente a urgencias 12 horas más tarde por arrancamiento involuntario de la sonda, siendo nuevamente sondada y dada de alta. La evolución posterior fue favorable, retirándose la sonda y conservando la micción espontanea. Conclusiones: El síntoma de sangrado genital femenino, no siempre se corresponde con problemas ginecológicos. La patología de la uretra femenina también puede ser su responsable: carúnculas, prolapsos, divertículos, quistes parauretrales de Skene, estenosis o cálculos como el caso presentado. Casos como éste pueden ser resueltos en la propia área de urgencias con relativa facilidad y sin necesidad de ingreso hospitalario.

Objective: To communicate the unusual case of a giant female urethral calculus located in the meatus, which presented with genital bleeding, without urinary retention or voiding symptoms. The calculus was visible at the introitus. Resolving treatment was performed in the emergency setting, progressing to discharge in a few hours. Methods: The case involved an 82–year-old patient with a remote history of bladder surgery who came to the emergency room with genital bleeding. On evaluation by the Gynecology staff, a large urethral calculus was found in the meatus, and a referral was made to the Urology department. After a physical examination, simple radiographs of the pelvis were ordered, in which a large urethral calculus (6 × 4 cm) was identified. Under local anesthesia, an inferior meatotomy was performed with luxation and extraction of the calculus; the patient was discharged with a catheter that was left in place until the wound healed. Results: The evolution after the “birth” of the calculus was favorable. The patient was discharged with a catheter a few hours after extraction of the lith. She returned to the emergency setting 12 hours later after inadvertently pulling out the catheter and was recatheterized and discharged. The patient’s later evolution was favorable; after removing the catheter, she maintained spontaneous voiding. Conclusions: The symptom of female genital bleeding does not always correspond to gynecological problems. Female urethral pathology can also be responsible; caruncles, prolapses, diverticuli, paraurethral cysts of the Skene’s gland, stenosis, or calculi, as in the case presented, can all result in bleeding. Cases like this one can be resolved in the emergency department relatively simply and without necessitating an inpatient admission.

Orquioepididimitis de repetición secundaria a reflujo uretrodeferente: presentación de un caso / Recurrent Orquioepididimitis secondary to uretro-deferent duct reflux: a case report

Revisar et reflujo uretrodeferente como causa de orquioepidimitis recurrente en pacientes con antecedentes manipulación instrumental en uretra prostática, y su manejo diagnóstico y terapéutico. Descripción del caso de un paciente con antecedentes de resección trasuretral prostática (RTU) y con orquioepidimitis de repetición, que muestra en uno de los episodios una colección escrotal cuyo contenido es puncionado y se obtiene orina, planteando así la posibilidad diagnóstica de reflujo uretrodeferente. Se obtiene el diagnóstico mediante cistouretrografia miccional seriada (CUMS), observando opacificación con el contraste yodado del conducto deferente hasta el epidídimo. El tratamiento fue quirúrgico, con ligadura del conducto deferente a nivel inguinal. No hubo recurrencias posteriores. Es importante sospechar esta patología en pacientes con antecedentes de RTU, pues su diagnóstico y el tratamiento es diferente del resto de orquioepididimitis...

To review the uretro-deferent duct reflux as a cause of recurrent orquiepidemitis in patients with a history of instrumental manipulation in the prostatic urethra, its diagnostic and therapeutic management. Method: Description of a patient with a history of transurethral resection of prostate (TURP) and repeat orquiepidimitis, presenting in one of the episodes a scrotal collection whose content is punctured and urine is obtained; thus raising the diagnosis of uretro-deferent duct reflux. Diagnosis is confirmed by voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG), observing iodinated contrast opacification of the deferent duct up to the epididymis. The treatment was surgical, with inguinal ligation of the vas deferens. There was no subsequent recurrence.lt is important of suspect this condition in patients with a history of TURP, because lts diagnosis and treatment is different from usual orquiepididimitis...

Anterior urethral valves and diverticulum.

Anterior urethral valves with associated urethral diverticulum is a rare but important cause of infravesical obstructive uropathy in children. This condition can be a cause of significant morbidity and can even lead to end-stage renal disease. This rare condition should be included in the differential diagnosis while evaluating male infants with infravesical obstructive uropathy.

Pioureterohidronefrosis / Pioureterohydronephrosis

Se presenta un caso clínico y los hallazgos imagenológicos de una pioureterohidronefrosis en una paciente de 4 años de edad, sin antecedentes patológicos, con historia de 5 días de evolución con dolor abdominal, fiebre de 38,2ºC, dolor en hipocondrio y flanco izquierdo con ocupación del fondo de saco lateral izquierdo al tacto rectal.

A case of a 4 year old girl with no pathologic background, with pyoureterohydronephrosis is presented. The history was 5 days of abdominal pain and fever (38,2 Cº), and an occupation of the left recess in the rectal digital examination.Imagenologic studies demonstrate pyoureterohydronephrosis.

Urethral Diverticulo-Rectal Fistula in AIDS

A 41-year-old heterosexual African man was evaluated for persistent urethral discharge, pneumaturia and watery diarrhea. Radiographic and endoscopic procedures established the diagnosis of a rectourethral fistula. The differential diagnosis of an acquired rectourethral fistula and the significance of AIDS are discussed.

Fascitis necrozante de los genitales masculinos: comunicación de dos casos y revisión de la literatura / Necrotizing fascitis of the masculine genital: report of two case and review of the literature

Se comunica el caso de dos pacientes con fascitis necrozante del escroto y pared abdominal, como los informados por Fournier en 1883, con la anatomía, fisiopatología, bacteriologíca y tratamiento del padecimiento con alto riesgo de mortalidad.