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Godbole P, Mackinnon AE. Expanded PTFE bladder neck slings for incontinence in children: the long-term outcome. BJU Int 2004; 93:139-41. [PMID: 14678386 DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410x.2004.04573.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term outcome of circumferential expanded PTFE (Gore-tex, WL Gore Associates, Scotland) bladder neck slings for achieving urethral continence in children with a neuropathic bladder. PATIENTS AND METHODS The records were reviewed of 19 children undergoing bladder reconstruction (most with a neuropathic bladder) who had a Gore-tex sling placed circumferentially at the bladder neck, over a 5-year period. Of these, seven had spina bifida; two each spinal dysraphism, surgery for anorectal anomalies and an idiopathic neuropathic bladder; five who developed a neuropathic bladder from other causes, and one born with bladder exstrophy. All children had an uncompliant bladder with a low urethral leak-point pressure on preoperative urodynamics. In all children conventional clean intermittent catheterization and pharmacotherapy had failed. Four had had previous augmentation surgery while 15 had concomitant bladder augmentation and formation of a Mitrofanoff stoma. The main outcome measure was achieving dryness. The original intention of the procedure was also to maintain urethral catheterization. RESULTS Full details of the follow-up were available in 17 patients. Despite initial good short-term results, at a median follow up of 7 years, in 14 patients the sling had to be removed because of erosion, often with transient urethral leakage before the bladder neck subsequently closed. A bladder calculus was associated with each case of erosion except one. CONCLUSION Although in the short term this technique had favourable results, it was not a useful technique in the long term.
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- P Godbole
- Department of Paediatric Urology, Sheffield Children's NHS Trust, Sheffield, UK.
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Colvert JR, Kropp BP, Cheng EY, Pope JC, Brock JW, Adams MC, Austin P, Furness PD, Koyle MA. The Use of Small Intestinal Submucosa as an off-the-shelf Urethral Sling Material for Pediatric Urinary Incontinence. J Urol 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0022-5347(05)64433-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- James R. Colvert
- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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- From the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, and Denver Children’s Hospital, Denver, Colorado
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Urodynamics are still essential for diagnosis and prognosis of neurogenic lower urinary tract-dysfunction and can not be replaced by other means of investigation so far, neither by a thorough clinical investigation nor by sophisticated means like magnetic resonance imaging. The findings with clinical investigations are specific, but not sensitive enough, and the spinal cord lesions may sometimes be beyond the resolution of magnetic resonance-scanning. Pharmacotherapy is still the corner stone in the management of detrusor hyperreflexia. Further studies with tolterodine, oxybutynin, trospiumchloride and propiverine have increased our knowledge about these substances. Capsaicin was proved to be the effective substance and not the alcoholic solution, which serves as a carrier. Intrathecal clonidine may represent a new conservative reversible alternative treatment for detrusor hyperreflexia. Experiments with detrusor strips from end-stage MMC-patients may explain the relative resistance of the low compliant bladder to the common anticholinergic/spasmolytic therapy. The differential indication for bladder augmentation, either using segments of the gastrointestinal-tract or performing a partial detrusor myectomy is ongoing, favourable results are reported for both techniques. Sacral posterior root rhizotomy is able to abolish detrusor hyperreflexia and therefore recommended for tetra- and paraplegics, however autonomic dysreflexia, if present, can not be totally abolished. Collagen injections for neuropathic sphincter incompetence can not be recommended as demonstrated in children with congenital neuropathy, a new design of an artificial sphincter must stand the test of time.
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- H G Madersbacher
- Department of Neurology, Universitat Klinlken, Innsbruck, Austria
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