scholarly journals Augmentation uretero-enterocystoplasty for refractory urinary tract dysfunction: a long-term retrospective study

BMC Urology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoqian Ying ◽  
Limin Liao

Abstract Objectives To report the long-term efficacy and complications of the augmentation uretero-enterocystoplasty (AUEC), including augmentation cystoplasty with simultaneous ureteroplasty and ureteral anti-reflux implantation in a single center. Methods We retrospectively reviewed clinical records, video-urodynamic data, and magnetic resonance urography of 210 patients who underwent the procedure for refractory lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) from 2003 to 2019. International vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and upper urinary tract dilatation (UUTD) grading systems were applied to assess upper urinary tract function, and post-operative complications were assessed. Results Mean age was 28.1 years, with a mean follow-up time of 57.4 months. A total of 338 ureters were simultaneously re-implanted, and ureteroplasty was performed on all ureters. There was a significant postoperative improvement in the bladder capacity, intravesical pressure, and compliance (P < 0.05). VUR improvement rate was 97.7% and postoperative improvement of UUTD presented in 72.5% ureters. Mean serum creatinine (Scr) level was significantly improved compared to preoperative Scr values (226.0 ± 89.4 μmol/L vs. 217.5 ± 133.9 umol/L, P < 0.05). The 1.0% patients had unacceptably postoperative urinary incontinence and 85.4% preoperative megaureters were improved. Primary complications included metabolic acidosis (9.5%), vesicoureteral anastomosis stenosis (6.2%), persistent VUR (2.7%), urinary calculi (6.6%), and intestinal dysfunction requiring laparotomy (3.3%). Conclusion In the study, a large series of patients treated with a complex surgical procedure was reported. It is novel, as this case series represents patients with aggressive surgical correction of VUR, ureteral tortuosity and upper tract dilation at the time of AC. AUEC was shown to have a positive role in treating patients with refractory LUTD associated with hydronephrosis and ureteral dilatation, stenosis or obstruction, with or without high- or low-pressure VUR. It was effective in improving renal function and protecting the UUT function from further deterioration in most patients with renal insufficiency.

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 200-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seong Jin Jeong ◽  
Seung-June Oh

Augmentation enterocystoplasty (AEC) is a surgical procedure in which the bladder is enlarged using an intestinal segment in patients with lower urinary tract dysfunction who fail to achieve satisfactory results with all conservative treatments. Currently, surgical materials and procedures, concomitant correction of upper urinary tract abnormalities, or bladder neck reconstruction may vary depending on the experience and preferences of the surgeons. AEC has been proven to be successful with respect to surgical goals, such as achieving urinary continence, improving quality of life, and preserving the upper urinary tract over the long term. The advantage of AEC over intravesical injection of botulinum toxin—a more recent and less invasive procedure—is that the prevention of upper urinary tract damage and the improvement of urinary incontinence are more reliably guaranteed, especially considering that these surgical effects are permanent. Compared to less invasive treatments, the quality of life of patients after surgery is also much higher, and AEC may be more cost-effective in the long run. Thus, in patients with neurogenic bladder, AEC is still the gold standard surgical procedure with strong evidence in support of its efficacy. In this article, the indications, surgical methods, possible complications, long-term follow-up, and current positioning of AEC in lower urinary tract dysfunction is discussed.


2002 ◽  
Vol 168 (5) ◽  
pp. 2030-2034 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARRIET C. THOENY ◽  
MARTIN J. SONNENSCHEIN ◽  
STEPHAN MADERSBACHER ◽  
PETER VOCK ◽  
URS E. STUDER

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 249-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Pottegård ◽  
Jesper Hallas ◽  
Boye L. Jensen ◽  
Kirsten Madsen ◽  
Søren Friis

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 485-491
Author(s):  
Dmitriy A. Lysachev ◽  
Lyubov A. Khodyreva ◽  
Roman V. Stroganov ◽  
Yuri A. Kupriyanov

The coronavirus pandemic has had a severe impact on the health care system. It is also changing the appointment and conduct of diagnostic procedures, emergency and routine medical care. According to the medical guidelines of the European Society of Urology (EAU) for the provision of urological care during the current epidemic situation, various levels of urgency have been proposed for diagnostic and therapeutic measures depending on the type of disease. Urodynamic studies refer to studies with a priority level from P2 (for neurogenic dysfunction of the urinary tract) to P4 (for lower urinary tract dysfunction without the risk of damage to the upper urinary tract). The question arises regarding the safety of these studies, both for patients and medical staff, and possible measures to reduce the risk of infection in a viral pandemic. Because of the increased workload of hospitals that have not been redesigned for the fight against coronavirus infection and provide routine and emergency urological care, an even greater need has arisen to find effective and safe methods of local anaesthesia for performing urodynamic studies and intradetrusive injections of botulinum toxin type A under local anesthesia in outpatient and outpatient settings (for example, in a short-term hospital). This article presents a literature review on the principles and features of performing urodynamic studies in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and the effectiveness and safety of using various methods of local anaesthesia when performing intradetrusor injections of botulinum toxin with detrusor hyperactivity of a neurogenic and non-neurogenic nature. There were evaluated forms of local anaesthesia such as intradetrusor instillation of lidocaine, electrophoresis, and the use of alternative solutions for urinary bladder irrigation (for example, Ringer’s solution).


PEDIATRICS ◽  
1969 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 677-684
Author(s):  
Duncan E. Govan ◽  
John M. Palmer

To study the influence of successful ureterovesicoplasty on incidence of recurrent urinary infection, two groups of infected children were compared in this regard before and after urologic evaluation. Of 280 new pediatric urologic hospital admissions, 55.6% had urinary tract infections. Sixty-six of these 156 infected children had vesicoureteral reflux. Bacteriologic localization of infection site was performed in both children with and without reflux at the time of diagnostic cystoscopy. Both groups were specifically treated with short-term antibiotic therapy and empiric urethral dilation. Operative vesicoureteroplasty was carried out in 62 children with reflux, with an overall cure rate of 83.8%. Distal urethral stenosis was not a contributing factor in this population nor did urethral caliber relate to the incidence of reflux. Only 3 of 35 children without reflux were found to have bacteriologically proved upper urinary tract infection. Similarly, only 32% of these children without reflux had clinical histories suggestive of recurrent pyelonephritis. In the children with reflux undergoing bacteriologic localization while infected, no nonrefluxing ureters were found infected, and only one third of the refluxing ureters so studied had proved upper urinary tract infection. Historical evidence for clinical pyelonephritis was present in 79% of the population with reflux; but, after successful cure of reflux, only 7% of these children continued to have pyelonephritic episodes. The long-term incidence of recurrent urinary tract infection was virtually identical, however, in the children undergoing successful antireflux surgery and the children without reflux following ureteral dilation. This relationship indicates that reflux plays little role in the etiology of bacteriunia but has a profound influence on urinary tract infection morbidity in children.


2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao-Qing Wang ◽  
Feng-Ming Jiang ◽  
Qi-Hui Chen ◽  
Yu-Chuan Hou ◽  
Hai-Feng Zhang ◽  
...  

Objective: We compared long-term clinical outcomes of upperurinary tract transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) patients treated byretroperitoneoscopic nephroureterectomy (RNU) or open radicalnephroureterectomy (ONU).Methods: Upper urinary tract TCC patients were treated with RNU(n = 86) or ONU (n = 72) and followed-up for more than threeyears. Demographic and clinical data, including preoperativeindexes, intraoperative indexes and long-term clinical outcomes,were retrospectively compared to determine long-term efficacy ofthe two procedures.Results: The RNU and ONU groups were statistically similar inage, gender, previous bladder cancer history, tumour location,pathologic tumour stage, pathologic node metastasis or tumourpathologic grade. The original surgery time required for both RNUand ONU was statistically similar, but RNU was associated witha significantly smaller volume of intraoperative estimated bloodloss and shorter length of postoperative hospital stay. Follow-up(average: 42.4 months, range: 3-57) revealed that the RNU 3-yearrecurrence-free survival rate was 62.8% and the 3-year cancerspecific survival rate was 80.7%. In the ONU group, the 3-yearrecurrence-free survival and the three-year cancer-specific survivalrates were 59.2% and 80.3%, respectively. Neither of the survivalrates were statistically different between the two groups. T stage,grade, lymph node metastasis and bladder tumour history wererisk factors for tumour recurrence; the operation mode and thebladder cuff incision mode had no correlation with the recurrencefreesurvival.Conclusion: The open surgery strategy and the retroperitoneoscopicnephroureterectomy strategy are equally effective for treating upperurinary tract TCC. However, the RNU procedure is less invasive,and requires a shorter duration of postoperative hospitalized care;thus, RNU is recommended as the preferred strategy.


2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 1490-1494 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeroen R Scheepe ◽  
Yu Yi M Wong ◽  
E Daniëlle van Pelt ◽  
Immy A Ketelslegers ◽  
Coriene E Catsman-Berrevoets ◽  
...  

Neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) in multiple sclerosis (MS) is highly prevalent in adults, but has not previously been described in paediatric MS. A total of 24 consecutive children with newly diagnosed MS were prospectively assessed for bladder and bowel problems early after diagnosis. Five of 24 children (21%) showed LUTD during assessment. One of these patients did not report voiding complaints. This high prevalence of LUTD indicates that all recently diagnosed patients with paediatric MS should be evaluated early in their disease and treated for urinary problems in order to prevent potential damage to the upper urinary tract.


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