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Cystoscopy safe, accurate after vaginal surgery.(Gynecology)(Brief Article)
ATLANTA -- Cystoscopy with intravenous indigo carmine dye is safe and accurate for detecting ureteral obstruction following vaginal surgery for pelvic organ prolapse, Arlan M. Gustilo-Ashby, M.D., said at the annual meeting of the American Urogynecologic Society.
Although the technique is commonly used for secondary prevention of ureteral injury in patients undergoing vaginal surgery, its accuracy and efficacy have not been well defined, according to Dr. Gustilo-Ashby of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
In a retrospective study of 700 patients who underwent vaginal surgery for anterior and/or apical prolapse from 2001 to 2004, and who also underwent intraoperative cystoscopy with intravenous indigo carmine to evaluate ureteral patency, 37 patients (5.3%) had no spillage of dye from either ureter. Three of the ...
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...normotensive rats after unilateral ureteral obstruction, an established model of renal...International report (see also Ureteral Obstruction). "Overexpression of exogenous...the renal interstitium following ureteral obstruction significantly prevented fibrosis...
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...patterns regarding malignant extrinsic Ureteral Obstruction among urologists (GU) and oncologists...United States report (see also Ureteral Obstruction). "Participants gave recommendations...treatment of malignant extrinsic ureteral obstruction," wrote E.S. Hyams and colleagues...
- New ureteral obstruction findings from University of Michigan published.
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- Researchers from University of Chile describe findings in ureteral...
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...activity occurring after ureteral obstruction in the rat," scientists...Chile report (see also Ureteral Obstruction). "Twenty-four male...subjected to 24-h unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO). Kidney tissue...
- Study data from University of Hong Kong update understanding of ureteral...
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...was investigated in a unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) model induced in wild...University of Hong Kong (see also Ureteral Obstruction). The researchers concluded...fibrosis and inflammation in unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) in mice. Nephrology Dialysis...
- Infections After Vaginal Surgery: Check Out the Pelvis Last.
- Magazine article from: OB GYN News November 15, 1999 700+ words
...the source of an infection after vaginal surgery, Dr. Sebastian Faro advised at a conference on vaginal surgery sponsored by the Society of Pelvic...likely to become infected after vaginal surgery are the pelvic floor and vaginal...
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...ST. LOUIS -- Physically demanding vaginal surgery is best done standing upright with...International Pelvic Reconstructive and Vaginal Surgery Conference. "I would encourage you...learned this the hard way. After doing vaginal surgery sitting down for 18 years I blew out...
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