title: Securing urethral catheters in patients undergoing urethrovesical anastomosis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Securing urethral catheters for the optimal healing of and prevention of extravasation at the urethrovesical anastomosis.
  
  
  METHODS
  This article describes the technique that we use to help secure Foley catheters or replace them if necessary.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the rare patients where disruption of the anastomosis or loss of the catheter prematurely takes place, the nylon suture can be used to replace the catheter without jeopardizing the anastomotic line.
authors.affiliation: Division of Urology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver 80262, USA.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ziada
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Crawford
mesh_terms: D000714:Anastomosis, Surgical; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D011468:Prostatectomy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000592:standards; D011469:Prostatic Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014521:Urethra / Q000601:surgery*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000601:surgery*; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000379:methods*; D013520:Urologic Surgical Procedures