Therefore, women with SCI are encouraged, both for these anatomical reasons as well as the extra health risks of an indwelling catheter, to use intermittent catheterization. 2 This means the woman ...

If any form of stylet is used, it must not be advanced past the tip of the urinary catheter to avoid causing trauma to the vagina, urethra or bladder. Once a catheter is selected, the clinician ...

The major associated cause is indwelling urinary catheters. Currently there are many types of catheters available. A variety of specialised urethral catheters have been designed to reduce the risk ...

Doctors discovered a huge bladder stone, as big as a baseball, when performing an ultrasound on a 72-year-old woman who was in pain and had developed blood in her urine ...

To solve this problem of chronic UTIs and antibiotic ... Current methods to deliver bacteria to the bladder are invasive and require repeated catheter insertion. Even when bacteria are ...

They may also use several tests to diagnose or rule out a vesicovaginal fistula: Cystoscopy: We insert a flexible, lighted tube (cystoscope) through your urethra to get a close look at your bladder.