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PubMed1997

The ice-water test in the diagnosis and treatment of the neurogenic bladder.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the usefulness of the ice-water test (IWT) in the diagnosis and treatment of neurological bladder disease. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The IWT was carried out in 148 patients with neuropathic bladder dysfunction resulting from a traumatic lesion, to assist in their diagnosis and treatment, and in 130 patients with neuropathic bladder dysfunction and multiple pathogenic disorders; the results of the IWT were used to classify those patients with hyperactive bladders. RESULTS: The IWT was positive in 95% of patients affected by complete and in 86% of patients with incomplete medullary lesions. The IWT in patients with lower motor neuron medullary lesions was always negative. The test was used diagnostically in all patients with lower and in 43% of those with upper motor neuron lesions. In the latter, it was used in 48% of patients as a rehabilitation method during the medullary-shock phase to accelerate the appearance of the micturition reflex. In 9% of patients it was used to induce micturition during cystography. CONCLUSION: Because it is simple to perform, the IWT is a useful complement to urodynamic examinations in patients with neurological bladder disease and in patients with micturitional disorders that are otherwise difficult to interpret.

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PubMed2000

[Diabetes and urination disorders].

Diabetic neuropathy of can induce multi-organ dysfunction. The diabetes simultaneously has profound repercussions on gastrointestinal, sexual and erectile functions. One of the main sequelae of diabetic neuropathy is autonomic neuropathy affecting the vesicosphincteric control. The objective of this study was to review the epidemiological, clinical, laboratory and therapeutic data concerning voiding disorders observed in diabetes. Although the therapeutic management of an isolated voiding disorder in diabetics still remains symptomatic, it raises aetiological problems due to the comorbidity, particularly prostatic obstructive syndromes in men, pelvic dysfunction in women and ageing. Diabetic patients in renal failure also present specific vesicosphincteric disorders which are reviewed. Diabetic patients should be more systematically screened for the development of diabetic bladder disease, especially for associated factors which participate in its clinical expression. This implies extreme caution in the management of benign prostatic hyperplasia in the case of comorbidity, to avoid deteriorating a sometimes fragile detrusor-sphincter equilibrium. Diabetic detrusor hyperactivity must be better known in order to be more effectively detected. Pharmacological treatment of this condition raises problems related to detrusor hypocontractility also related to diabetic bladder disease. Clinical examination should be able to select those patients requiring further urodynamic studies in order to assess the individual detrusor-sphincter equilibrium. These investigations are required when surgical treatment of an associated urological or gynaecological disorder is considered.

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PubMed1977

[Microangiographic examination of the normal and diseased gall bladder (author's transl)].

Microangiographic and anatomical examination of 30 surgically removed gall bladders is reported. The findings in normal subjects and in some forms of chronic disease (lithiatic, atrophic, hypertrophic and porcelain cholecystopathy) are described, illustrated and discussed with reference to signs that aid in the interpretation of angiographic pictures in vivo.

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PubMed1981

Cholelithiasis: a differential diagnosis in abdominal "crisis" of sickle cell anemia.

A review of the most recent literature on biliary tract disease in sickle cell (HbSS) disease has shown gallstones to be present in approximately 67 percent of affected patients. There is adequate evidence to urge all physicians to be aware of the contributions of gall bladder disease to the abdominal symptoms of sickle cell anemia. Frequently, because it is difficult to distinguish between the painful "crises" and gall bladder disease, the latter diagnosis is not considered.This article submits that investigative procedures of the gall bladder, in all patients with HbSS disease and abdominal crises, should be performed. If gallstones are present, elective cholecystectomy in the adequately prepared patient seems to be justified.

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