TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Experience of a tertiary-level urology center in the clinical urological events of rare and very rare incidence. II. Urological self-inflicted harms: 1. Unintentional patient's side-inflictor urological injuries
JO  - Current urology
A1  - Gadelkareem, Rabea A.
A1  - Shahat, Ahmed A.
A1  - Abdelhafez, Mohamed F.
A1  - Reda, Ahmed
A1  - Khalil, Mahmoud
SP  - 74
EP  - 80
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
N2  - INTRODUCTION: Unintentional self-inflicted injuries mainly refer to those injuries which are inflicted by the patient himself with benign intentions. In urology, they may vary and result in significant morbidities. <br><br>PATIENTS AND METHODS: A retrospective search of our patients' data records for the reported cases of patient's side-inflictor urological injuries during the period July 2006 - June 2016 was made. Each case was studied for age, gender, primary diagnosis, injury inflictor, involved organ, motivating factor, mechanism, diagnosis, management, and final outcome. <br><br>RESULTS: Of more than 55,000 urological procedures, 26 patients (0.047%) were involved in unintentional patient's side-inflictor urological injuries. The age range was 8-76 years and included 23 males and 3 females. Fifteen patients (57.7%) had urological disorders before the injury. They could be differentiated into direct organ involvement injuries (53.8%) and catheter involvement injuries (46.2%). External male urogenital organs were involved in 69.3% of cases which were diagnosed on physical examination. The inflictor of the injury was the patient himself, a relative, and another patient in 73.1, 19.2, and 7.7% of cases, respectively. Motivating factors were relief of painful conditions (34.6%), psychiatric disorders (38.5%), and sexual purposes (27%). Final outcomes were short-term harm, long-term harm, and permanent disability in 50, 11.5, and 38.5% of cases, respectively. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Unintentional patient's side-inflictor urological injuries are very rare events and mainly involve the external male urogenital organs under different motivating stressors. They could be differen-tiated into direct organ and catheter manipulation injuries with variable final outcomes from mild short-term harms to permanent disabilities.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1661-7649
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000489423
ID  - ref1
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