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A 66-year-old female with bilateral ureteral tumors associated with chronic renal failure is presented. She received pan-hysterectomy due to uterine cancer in 1957. She was first referred to our clinic to make internal shunt under a diagnosis of chronic renal failure. In 1979, the diagnosis of neurogenic bladder and bilateral vesicoureteral reflux (rt; grade 3, lt; grade 1) was made. She was admitted to our clinic with complaints of macroscopic hematuria and a temperature of 39 degrees C on April 28, 1983. Cystoscopically, pyuria from the right ureteral orifice was found. Right retrograde pyelography revealed severe dilatation of the right ureter and renal pelvis with some filling defects. For drainage of pus retaining in the right renal pelvis, right percutaneous nephrostomy was made under the guidance of ultrasonography. After her general condition improved, right nephroureterectomy was performed under the diagnosis of right pyonephrosis on June 8, 1983. Right pyelonephritis and right ureteral tumor, grade 3, were pathologically demonstrated. After the operation, an invasive bladder tumor was detected on cystoscopy and ultrasonography, subsequently a total of 3,900 rad irradiation was given to the bladder tumor. She died of pulmonary edema 7 months later. Autopsy demonstrated a transitional carcinoma, grade 3, of the left ureter. Bilateral urothelial tumors of the upper urinary tract is rare, and to our knowledge only 29 cases have been reported in Japan.
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PMID:[Bilateral ureteral tumors associated with chronic renal failure: a case report]. 332 59

Fatal cytauxzoonosis is described in a captive reared lioness (Panthera leo) and its 6-month-old cub. Clinical signs in the lioness included loss of weight, depression, anaemia, loss of hair, dark discolored urine, tachypnoea, nystagmus, deaphness and staggering gait. The cub died after a short period of depression. In the lioness, laboratory examination revealed normochromic normocytic anaemia, neutrophilia, lymphopenia, monocytosis, eosinopenia, thrombocytopenia, proteinuria, pyuria, haematuria and increased. At necropsy the lioness showed marked pulmonary edema and slight gelatinous translucent edema in the mediastinum, petechiae and echymosis disseminated in the serosae, and the intestinal content was red and semiliquid. The cub presented hemothorax, endocardial and pulmonary edema, petechiae in the cardiac serosae, hepatic and splenic congestion and segments of the small intestine with blood stained fluid contents and reddish mesenteric lymph nodes. Histopathological examination of liver, spleen, heart, lungs, intestines, pancreas, mesenteric lymph nodes, kidneys, skeletal muscle, brain and skin revealed large number of intravascular macrophages with their cytoplasm filled with various schizogonic stages of a Theileriidae. Electron microscopy confirmed the presence of schizonts in endothelial-associated macrophages. The diagnosis was established by the finding of the pathognomonic schizonts in macrophages within blood vessels in several organs and tissues from both lions. This is the first report of feline cytauxzoonosis in P. leo and of a confirmed infection by Cytauxzoon felis in felidae in South America.
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PMID:Fatal cytauxzoonosis in captive-reared lions in Brazil. 1730 59