Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports

INTRODUCTION: Emphysematous cystitis is a very rare complicated urinary tract infection characterized by air in the bladder wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We report two clinical cases of emphysematous cystitis of an 83-year-old Caucasian woman with diabetes mellitus and a 78-year-old Caucasian man with no...

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Autores principales: De Coninck, Vincent, Michielsen, Dirk
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362838/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889217
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0530-y
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description INTRODUCTION: Emphysematous cystitis is a very rare complicated urinary tract infection characterized by air in the bladder wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We report two clinical cases of emphysematous cystitis of an 83-year-old Caucasian woman with diabetes mellitus and a 78-year-old Caucasian man with no past medical history. They presented with severe confusion and abdominal distension. Emphysematous cystitis was diagnosed in time with a thorough physical examination, urine analysis and computed tomography. The patients were successfully treated with antibiotic therapy and bladder drainage. CONCLUSION: This rare disorder should be recognized in time and treated properly to guarantee survival.
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spelling pubmed-43628382015-03-18 Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports De Coninck, Vincent Michielsen, Dirk J Med Case Rep Case Report INTRODUCTION: Emphysematous cystitis is a very rare complicated urinary tract infection characterized by air in the bladder wall. CASE PRESENTATION: We report two clinical cases of emphysematous cystitis of an 83-year-old Caucasian woman with diabetes mellitus and a 78-year-old Caucasian man with no past medical history. They presented with severe confusion and abdominal distension. Emphysematous cystitis was diagnosed in time with a thorough physical examination, urine analysis and computed tomography. The patients were successfully treated with antibiotic therapy and bladder drainage. CONCLUSION: This rare disorder should be recognized in time and treated properly to guarantee survival. BioMed Central 2015-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4362838/ /pubmed/25889217 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0530-y Text en © De Coninck and Michielsen; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
title_full Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
title_fullStr Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
title_full_unstemmed Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
title_short Emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
title_sort emphysematous cystitis presenting as severe confusion and abdominal pain: two case reports
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4362838/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13256-015-0530-y
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