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Female ; Fibronectins* ; Hypertension, Pregnancy-Induced* ; Plasma* ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy*

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Cardiovascular Diseases* ; Echocardiography*

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Female ; Pregnancy ; Pregnancy, Ectopic* ; Salpingectomy*

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Fever*

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Breast* ; Estrogens*

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Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract*

Saccharomyces is an ascospore-producing yeast that is commonly employed in the brewery and bakery industries. We report a case of opportunistic skin infection with Saccharomyces in a 62-year-old female whose defense was impaired by immunosuppression. Previously reported cases have been treated with amphotericin B or ketoconazole and our patient respbnded to fluconazole.
Amphotericin B ; Female ; Fluconazole ; Humans ; Immunosuppression ; Ketoconazole ; Middle Aged ; Saccharomyces* ; Skin* ; Yeasts

PURPOSE: Bladder irritative symptoms such as urinary urgency or urge incontinence could be worse even after proper treatments, if accompanying the unstable bladder with lower urinary tract obstruction or female urinary incontinence was not found before treatments. We performed walking cystometrography to detect unstable bladder which could be masked by cystometrography in sitting position. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated 133 patients who complained of urinary urgency or urge incontinence. Walking cystometrography (Group 2) was done for pa tients who did not show unstable bladder at cystometrography in sitting position (Group 1). Bladder volume at first desire to void, cystometric maximal bladder capacity, and occurrence of unstable bladder of both groups were compared. RESULTS: In cystometrography performed in sitting position (Group 1), unstable bladder was found in 48 (36.1%) out of 133 patients. Among the rest 85 patients, 23 patients (27.1%) showed unstable bladder in walking cystometrography (Group 2). Conse quently, 71 (53.4%) out of 133 patients showed unstable bladder in both groups. Com paring the bladder capacity of these two measuring methods, we could observe that bladder volume at first desire to void and maximal bladder capacity of walking state were smaller than those of sitting position from 187.4 +/- 36.9ml (Group 1) to 138.5 +/- 31.6ml (Group 2), 413.6 +/- 42.5ml (Group 1) to 342.8 +/- 43.2ml (Group 2), respectively (p <0.05). CONCLUSIONS: We expect that the diagnosis of unstable bladder through walking cysto metrography is meaningful when the method is applied to the patients who have urinary urgency or urge incontinence but seem to be normal by conventional cystometrography.
Diagnosis* ; Female ; Humans ; Masks ; Urinary Bladder ; Urinary Incontinence ; Urinary Incontinence, Urge* ; Urinary Tract ; Walking*

BACKGROUND: We studied the antibiotic sensitivities to the causative microorganisms of acute simple urinary tract infection for recent 3 years. METHODS: We analyzed 112 microorganisms and their antibiotic sensitivities of the 104 patients who were admitted to or visited the Department of Urology, Catholic University St. Marys Hospital and had more than 10cfu/mL on urine culture from June 1996 to January 1999 retrospectively. RESULTS: The chance of gram negative and positive as causative microorganisms was 72.3% and 27.7% respectively. The most common pathogenic microorganisms were Escherichia coli (67.0%) followed by a-hemolytic streptococci, Entercoccus. In gram negative acute UTI, imipenem, sulperanzone showed relatively higher sensitivity, while cotrimoxazole, ampicillin showed relatively lower sensitivity. In gram positive, vancomycin, penicillin showed relatively higher sensitivity, while ampicillin, imipenem showed relatively lower sensitivity. CONCLUSIONS: We consider that gram negative microorganisms, especially E. coli, is the main cause of acute simple UTI. But, we should be concerned about the increase of gram positive organisms and other gram negative organisms besides E. coli. Regarding to the choice of adequate drug in the treatment of UTI, it is necessary to consider the change of pathologic microorganisms.
Ampicillin ; Escherichia coli ; Humans ; Imipenem ; Penicillins ; Retrospective Studies ; Trimethoprim, Sulfamethoxazole Drug Combination ; Urinary Tract Infections* ; Urinary Tract* ; Urology ; Vancomycin

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Glycopyrrolate* ; Salivary Glands* ; Scopolamine Hydrobromide*