Bladder & urothelial tract

Cystitis

Hemorrhagic cystitis



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Monika Roychowdhury, M.D.
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Definition / general
  • Clinical syndrome of gross hematuria, often with irritative bladder symptoms
Etiology
Clinical features
  • Irritative voiding symptoms, gross hematuria
Case reports
Treatment
  • Clot evacuation and hydration, bladder irrigation with saline or alkalinized saline, intravesical instillation of aluminium hydroxide / magnesium hydroxide
  • More aggressive therapies include transurethral coagulation of bladder, fixation with silver nitrate and formalin, embolization of internal iliac arteries or their branches to the bladder; rarely requires cystectomy
Clinical images

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Inflammatory bleeding bladder mucosa

Gross images

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Hemorrhagic and ulcerative cystitis after cyclophosphamide

Microscopic (histologic) images

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Edema, bleeding and granulocyte infiltration

Hemorrhage and edema in the lamina propria

Cytology images

Case of the Week #353

47 year old man with herpes viral cytopathic effects in urine cytology

Differential diagnosis
  • Hemorrhage associated with malignancy
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