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E Wespes

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PubMed1983

Blind-ending bifid and double ureters.

Bifid and double blind ureters are two rare congenital anomalies of the upper urinary tract. Usually they are incidental findings. Occasionally, they are associated with urinary tract infection, but the symptoms are not specific. The key to diagnosis is a careful urethral cystoscopy and retrograde pyelogram. Asymptomatic patients without urinary tract infection require no treatment. When symptoms or infection are present, excision of the blind branch is required with antireflux reimplantation of the normal ureter if needed.

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PubMed1983

Endoscopic injection of Teflon for female urinary incontinence.

56 women with urinary stress incontinence were treated by transurethral Teflon injection. 48 of these patients (86%) were completely cured or greatly improved. No abscess or other complications were observed. Hospital stay is reduced to 2-3 days. The procedure is easy to perform and does not interfere with further surgery, should it be necessary. It is particularly useful after failure of previous surgery and in obese and debilitated patients.

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Difference in glycohistochemical lectin staining of collagen fibers in the corpora cavernosa of normal and impotent men.

The objectives of this study were to investigate the value of glycohistochemical staining with three lectin types specific to a particular glycan structure (Arachis hypogaea [PNA], Triticum vulgare [WGA], and concanavalin A [Con A]) as a method of defining possible changes in the collagen structure in the corpora cavernosa in potent and impotent men. The study group consisted of 4 normal potent men and 22 men with various etiologies of impotence. The quantitative histochemical measurements were performed by means of a cell image processor. Two variables for each of the three types of lectins were studied. These were the mean optical density (MOD), which relates to glycohistochemical staining intensity, and the labeling index (LI), which is positively related to the percentage of immunostaining. Only WGA staining made it possible to discriminate significantly between the normal and pathological groups under study. The two parameters (LI, MOD) were significantly higher in the case of WGA staining in the normal group (P = 0.004 and 0.013, respectively). In contrast, only the mean LI value, in the case of the psychogenic and venogenic patients, reached a level of statistical significance (P = 0.005 and 0.001, respectively), when it increased from PNA through WGA to Con A histochemical staining. The two variables (LI, MOD) changed markedly from PNA through WGA to Con A in the arteriogenic patients (P = 0.003 and P < 0.001, respectively). WGA is of diagnostic value in distinguishing between normal and abnormal collagen in the corpora cavernosa. The difference in the lectin staining of the other groups, particularly the arteriogenic group, may be attributed to alterations in the glycosylation of the procollagen that are probably due to changes in the partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) level, an important cofactor in normal glycosylation. WGA staining may therefore be used as a marker to distinguish true psychogenic patients from those with organic diseases. Moreover, it may be used as an additional parameter in selecting the best candidates for penile revascularization.

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