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01-12-2010 | Oral presentation
Augmentation colocystoplasty and incontinence surgery in patients with spina bifida – our ongoing experience
Authors:
Prashanth Kumar, Anant Bangar, Janani Krishnan, Santosh Karmarkar
Published in:
Fluids and Barriers of the CNS
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Special Issue 1/2010
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Excerpt
Successful management of urinary incontinence is a cornerstone in endowing patients of neurogenic incontinence with a good quality of life. In recent times introduction of clean intermittent catheterization and anticholinergics at an early age is thought to avoid future incontinence surgery. Over the last few years, we have a growing experience in the management of urinary incontinence in spina bifida. In this paper we present, a cohort of 9 consecutive cases of colocystoplasty and/or bladder neck repair and Mitrofanoff and/or MACE procedures. A thorough preoperative work up, proper selection of cases, protocol based intraoperative and postoperative management is required for obtaining good results. These aspects are discussed in this paper. …
