Obstructive Uropathy Complicating Anticoagulant Therapy

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Abstract
THE varied hemorrhagic complications resulting from the increasing use of anticoagulant drugs are under current study.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Acute medical and surgical diseases may be mimicked by the presence of occult hematoma. In the case presented below, the recognition of a perivesical hematoma as the cause of acute urinary suppression allowed the prompt relief of obstruction and recovery of the patient.Case ReportA 72-year-old widowed, childless woman (P.B.B.H. 4R478) was admitted to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for the 1st time, on October 18, 1960, because of shortness of breath of about 4 months' duration. There had been associated exertional dyspnea, . . .