title: Filarial chyluria as a cause of acute urinary retention.
abstract: An adult male with acute urinary retention had spontaneous resolution after passage of a proteinaceous clot. He admitted to passing milky urine intermittently over the past twenty years. A history of hydrocele with associated lymphadenitis in a patient who emigrated from Australia was suspicious for a parasitic etiology. Urinalysis, lymphangiography, and positive indirect hemagglutination studies confirmed the diagnosis of filarial chyluria.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002913:Chyle; D005368:Filariasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014555:Urination Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D014556:Urine