[Further experience with the use of gastrointestinal segments in bladder reconstruction in the complex of exstrophy-epispadias].
It is a matter of discussion if bladder augmentation should or should not utilize in the treatment of exstrophy-epispadias complex. When staged functional bladder reconstruction is adopted in the most difficult cases, or when one desires to avoid early and/or subsequent urinary diversions, sometimes a bladder enhancement could be necessary. The indications should be: a progressive damage to the upper urinary tract, after bladder closure at birth, due to a very small, no compliant detrusor plate (this is a rare condition: only one case in our series); a bladder capacity < or = 80 mls at the time of bladder neck reconstruction (this is a frequent but questionable condition: three cases in our series); a progressive damage of the upper urinary tract after bladder neck reconstruction (this is an unexpected, but not rare condition: 3 cases in our series); during every undiversion procedure (bladder augmentation is nearly mandatory during undiversion in cloacal or bladder exstrophies previously diverted: 4 cases in our series). In our experience, 12 bladder augmentations (in 11 patients, over 85 cases we observed) were done at median age of 8 years and 5 months. Different intestinal segments have been used: the sigmoid colon, the ileo-cecal portion, an ileal tract and the stomach. Follow-up ranges from 11 years to 12 months; until now, we observed few surgical complications: a bowel obstruction in one patient, a left ureteral partial stenosis at level of the anastomosis with the gastric patch wall in another patient and bladder lithiasis in 5 patients.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
De Castro
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Istituto di Clinica Chirurgica Pediatrica, Università di Bologna, Italia.
Pavanello
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Tani
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Mei
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Di Lorenzo
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Pelagalli
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Pasini
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Landuzzi
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Messina
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D000293:Adolescent; D001746:Bladder Exstrophy / Q000601:surgery*; D002432:Cecum / Q000637:transplantation*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D012809:Colon, Sigmoid / Q000637:transplantation*; D004842:Epispadias / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007082:Ileum / Q000637:transplantation*; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology; D013270:Stomach / Q000637:transplantation*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery*
Ulteriori esperienze sull'uso di segmenti gastro-intestinali nella ricostruzione vescicale del complesso estrofia-epispadia.