1.Questionnaire Surveys for Evalution of Quality of Life and Problems in Patients with Orthotopic Neobladder after Cystectomy.
Sachiko TOYAMA ; Tsutomu NISHIYAMA ; Mineko KOSAKAI ; Masahiro TERUNUMA ; Kazuko KOBAYASHI
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2001;50(1):40-44
Questionnaire survey were conducted three times to evalute the social life and functional problems in patients with orthotopic neobladder after cystectomy. A total of 34 responses were collected froml9 patients with a mean age of 66 years at diagnosis. The patients with orthotopic neobladder were found to be troubled with prolonged urinary incontinence such as nocturnal enuresis and stress incontinence. The problems was deteriorating the quality of life of the patients.
2.Voiding Symptoms and Psychological Status Found by Use of International Prostate Symptom Score(IPSS) Nad Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale(HAD Scale) in Male Patients Complaining of Urinary Difficulty.
Reiko WATANABE ; Tsutomu NISHIYAMA ; Satoko OBAYASHI ; Saori KANAZAWA ; Masahiro TERUNUMA
Journal of the Japanese Association of Rural Medicine 2001;50(4):605-612
[Objective and Patients] We carried out surveys of urinary condition and its change, and anxiety and depression status and its change in 44 male outpatients with a chief complaint of urinary difficulty. In these surveys, we distributed questionnaires of the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD Scale) to the patients twice-at their first visit and six monthslater.
[Results] The survey using the IPSS found that the urinary condition improved in 27 patients in six months, deteriorated in five and did not change in 12. The HAD Scale survey found that psychologicasl status improved in 17 patients, deteriorated in 11 and did not change in 16. The patients who had better points in the second IPSS test showed a tendency to make a good QOL score and get an improved state on the HAD Scale. However, the HAD Scale deteriorated in some of the patients who got improved IPSS.
[Conclusions] Although the patients who got better results in the second IPSS trial showed a tendency to get better marks on the HAD Scale, patients' anxiety and depression condition might have been affected by other factors than urinary difficulty.
3.Conservative management of bilateral traumatic testicular dislocation in a 10-year-old boy
Yuko SHIRONO ; Shunsuke YAMAGUCHI ; Eisuke TAKAHASHI ; Masahiro TERUNUMA
Journal of Rural Medicine 2018;13(1):82-85
A 10-year-old boy fell from a one-meter-high Jacuzzi ladder in a hot spring facility, landing in a straddle position, and injured his perineum. He visited the emergency room of our hospital immediately after the injury. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) revealed a tear of the corpus spongiosum urethra, and compression due to a hematoma. With the hematoma spreading to the scrotum, the testes became inverted and dislocated to the inguinal region on both sides. Without surgery or interventions, the testes descended into the scrotum on the third day after the injury before fibrillation and scarring began. Testicular dislocation by injury is rare and encountered exclusively in children. It is generally treated with surgery to retain testicular function. We selected conservative management, as our patient had a closed injury without testicular torsion, and the testicular dislocation was associated with compression by hematoma, which could possibly recover with regression of the hematoma.