title: [Bladder augmentation in children: experience with 15 cases].
abstract: From 1993 to 1995 bladder augmentation was performed in 11 female and 4 male patients from 1 to 13 years old (average age 6.7 years). Indications included neurogenic bladder, extrophy and epispadias with small bladder. A ventriculoperitoneal shunt had been performed in 6 patients for hydrocephalus. We used 22 segments since 5 patients had 2 segments. Segments included sigmoid in 12 cases, stomach in 5, small bowel in 1, cecum and appendix in 2. We have used the AMS-800 artificial urinary sphincter in 7 patients. Upper tracts and renal function have remained stable in these patients. Continence was achieved in 7 of 9 cases with augmentation, and in 6 of those patients with artificial urinary sphincter. The most common complication was leaks and the hematuria-dysuria syndrome when stomach was used.
authors.affiliation: Sección de Urología Pediátrica, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Arrixaca Murcia.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Nortes
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Zambudio
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006849:Hydrocephalus / Q000150:complications; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery*; D014549:Urinary Incontinence / Q000601:surgery; D016741:Urinary Sphincter, Artificial; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery