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F Lovaco

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PubMed1992

Control of massive hematuria in idiopathic hemorrhagic cystitis after administration of conjugated estrogen.

A renal transplant patient with severe hemorrhagic cystitis of idiopathic etiology was treated initially with intravenous administration of conjugated estrogen (1 mg./kg.), followed on day 2 and thereafter with 5 mg. per day orally for 3 weeks. Hematuria decreased in intensity within 10 hours and disappeared within 48 hours. Hematuria did not recur by 6 months after completion of oral doses of conjugated estrogen. Complications or other side effects were not observed. In our experience conjugated estrogen controls hematuria in patients with idiopathic hemorrhagic cystitis and this form of treatment must be considered in this condition.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1992

[Endourologic treatment of calyceal diverticulum complicated with lithiasis].

Presentation of 9 cases of calyceal diverticulum symptomatic lithiasis, 6 of which have been treated up to the present time. Of the remaining 3, one patients, in spite of its evolutive character (increased cavity) and moderate pain, prefers to abstain from therapeutic therapy, but undergoes follow-up controls every 6 months; the other 2 cases are waiting endourological treatment. Out of 6 patients who underwent surgery, two cases, who had previously experienced shockwave extracorporeal lithotripsy (SWEL), were advised to have endourological procedures due to persistence of pain and gallstones debris.

Catheterization↗
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[Infiltrating transitional cancer of the bladder (2). Prognostic value of the stage. Its influence on the therapeutic decision)].

The only reliable sign to give a prognosis is the anatomopathological stage (P or pT) obtained from the study of the cystectomy surgical piece: partial or total. Tumourless (P0) bladders conceal the inability to reach any certainty over the tumour's inexistance. Removal should not be considered as a success but an error. The fact that no tumour is found in the removed bladder does not guarantee that the patient will not eventually die of metastasis. A pT2 stage has a better prognosis than pT3a and both evolve better that either pT3b or pT4a and, therefore, their treatment and management may be different. Clinical stage (T) is not a reliable sign: the possibilities of over and undervaluation are very high. Subtraction of P from T cannot be maintained as an adequate sign to assess the action of the adjuvant therapy to surgery and should be excluded in order to delimit the action of the neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. Also, patients with pT2 and pT3a tumours should be excluded from these protocols since the possibilities that they may be removed during the evaluation R.T.U. are high.

Carcinoma, Transitional Cell↗
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[Unilateral essential hematuria: diagnostic and therapeutic attitude in 2 cases].

Unilateral essential haematuria is an unusual clinical entity where diagnosis is achieved by exclusion of other urological and nephrological conditions. The paper reports two female patients with unilateral anaemic macroscopic haematuria which were evaluated using flexible ureteropyeloscopy, and one also underwent percutaneous pyeloscopy. In one of the patients a renal papilla haemangioma was found which was fulgurated, while the lesion was not identified in the other patient, although neither of them has shown haematuria recurrence during the follow-up period. The authors believe that uretororrenoscopy and percutaneous nephroscopy should be considered in selected patients with unilateral essential haematuria due to its diagnostic and therapeutic possibilities.

Adult↗