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The most common cause of vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) in North America is injury to the bladder during a hysterectomy. In underdeveloped countries, childbirth is the leading etiology of these fistulae. Although the diagnosis of a VVF usually can be readily made in an outpatient setting, care must be exercised not to overlook a second fistula or concomitant ureteral injury. The timing of repair of the...
The American Urological Association convened the Female Stress Urinary Incontinence Clinical Guidelines Panel to analyze the literature regarding surgical procedures for treating stress urinary incontinence in the otherwise healthy female subject and to make practice recommendations based on the treatment outcomes data. The panel searched the MEDLINE data base for all articles through 1993 on surgical...
We report the first case of duodenal-inferior vena caval (IVC) fistula resulting from locally recurrent renal cell carcinoma (RCC). A 45-year-old man presented with gross hematuria and underwent a right radical nephrectomy to treat a solid renal mass. Histologic evaluation showed RCC, State pT3aNOMO. The patient presented 21 months later in hemorrhagic shock, with upper gastrointestinal bleeding....
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