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Every general practitioner has to deal with urologic emergencies. The most frequent illnesses are urinary retention, acute scrotum, priapism, macrohematuria, nephritic colic, obstructive pyelonephritis and pyonephrosis. Whereas urinary retention, as well as acute ureteric stone colic must generally be treated by the practitioner, the urologist must often be consulted in case of an acute scrotum or for priapism. Testicular torsion is one situation, where surgical treatment needs to be performed within 6 hours. Of utmost importance is his timely assistance with the obstructive pyelonephritis and pyonephrosis. These are initially often not recognized, especially because the first ultrasound examination of the intrarenal pyelone may not show a dilatation of the collecting system despite obstruction. If the adequate treatment with drainage and antibiotics is applied too late, this can result in serious and potentially lethal consequences.
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PMID:[Urological emergencies]. 848 79

Gas-forming infections of the genitourinary tract may manifest as life-threatening conditions, often requiring aggressive medical and surgical management. Accurate interpretation of the radiologic studies is essential for early and accurate diagnosis of gas within the renal parenchyma or collecting system, bladder, uterus, and scrotum. Three distinct entities are associated with renal or perirenal gas: emphysematous pyelonephritis, emphysematous pyelitis, and gas-forming perirenal abscess. Gas in the bladder may occur secondary to emphysematous cystitis or a vesicoenteric fistula and must be differentiated from air introduced by means of instrumentation. Uterine gas usually indicates an underlying infection or a neoplasm. Gas in the scrotum is most commonly due to an infectious process or bowel herniation into the scrotal sac. Before institution of a specific therapeutic regimen, an effort should be made to establish the exact location of gas in the genitourinary tract. Plain radiography, including tomography, and ultrasonography are useful screening modalities. Although in some cases urography, barium enema studies, and other contrast material-enhanced studies enable a diagnosis to be made, in many patients computed tomography is the definitive diagnostic technique.
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PMID:Genitourinary tract gas: imaging evaluation. 896 88

We report an extensive form of emphysematous pyelonephritis (EPN) in the right kidney extending from the anterior abdominal wall to the scrotum in a patient with renal calculi with obstructive uropathy and describe the progression route of infection from retroperitoneum to scrotum. Such an extensive occurrence of EPN is very rare. The patient succumbed after 48 h despite aggressive treatment.
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PMID:Scrotal extension of emphysematous pyelonephritis. 1720 71

Emphysematous epididymo-orchitis is a rare cause of an acute scrotum and is a surgical emergency. Diagnosis is clinically difficult, and sonography with a high-frequency probe is useful to pick up gas shadows in the scrotal wall or testicular substance. A diabetic patient presented with fever, urinary tract infection, and an acute scrotal swelling. The patient needed orchidectomy and scrotal debridement. As in emphysematous pyelonephritis, this condition occurs in diabetics, and patients may need surgery. There is a need to perform sonography in all diabetic patients with an acutely inflamed scrotum, because detection of gas shadows makes surgical intervention more likely.
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PMID:Emphysematous epididymo-orchitis: A rare entity. 2202 67

(Objectives) This paper aimed to report the clinical statistics on urologic diseases treated in the emergency department (ED). (Patients and methods) We retrospectively evaluated 1,480 patients diagnosed with urologic diseases in the ED between January 2013 and December 2014. We reviewed the patients' sex, age, main complaints, emergency grade, care-seeking process, hospitalization, examination items, and diagnosis. We also reviewed the correct-diagnosis rates of patients who visited the ED for the first time and were followed up at the urology department. (Results) Of the patients, 2.6% were diagnosed as having a urologic disease, with a male-to-female ratio of 1.5:1. The age distribution ranged from 0 to 101 years, with a median age of 53 years. Patients who required hospitalization accounted for 17.8%. The diagnoses were urolithiasis (546 cases), cystitis (220 cases), and pyelonephritis (137 cases), in order of frequency. The correct-diagnosis rates of urolithiasis (91.2%), benign prostatic hyperplasia (75.0%), and pyelonephritis (71.9%) were high. However, those of testicular torsion (0%), urologic neoplasm (26.7%), prostatitis (35.7%), and epididymitis (35.7%) were low. (Conclusion) In the ED, 82.2% of cases of urologic diseases were mild and did not require hospitalization. The correct-diagnosis rate of acute scrotum was low, as it was difficult to diagnose and thus difficult to manage in the ED. Therefore, urologists should cooperate with ED staff and warn them that cases of acute scrotum should be subjected to emergency consultation.
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PMID:UROLOGIC DISEASES IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT. 2907 Jul 37

We report a case of cooccurrence of xanthogranulomatous and emphysematous pyelonephritis along with necrotizing fasciitis (NF) of scrotum and premium in a patient was nondiabetic and the history of kidney stones. This case a unique presentation of NF due to two pyelonephritis causing fournier gangrene. Surgical management and antibiotics provide an effective management of the disease.
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PMID:A rare presentation of xanthogranulomatous pyelonephritis and emphysematous pyelonephritis complicated with necrotizing fasciitis of scrotum and perineum (fournier gangrene). 3310 2