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Bladder Shrinkage as a Complication of Long-Term Supravesical Urinary Diversion in Children with Solitary Kidneys

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Surgery in Solitary Kidney and Corrections of Urinary Transport Disturbances

Part of the book series: Progress in Pediatric Surgery ((PEDIATRIC,volume 23))

Summary

Failures in the treatment of terminal ureteral stenosis are not seldom burdened by considerable bladder shrinkage, particularly in infants. Congenital anomalies of the urinary tract such as bilaterally ectopic ureteral ostia can also lead to bladder shrinkage, even in newborns.

Using examples from our patient series, we discuss problems of contracted bladder in children and describe a method of continuous bladder distention by means of catheters with different balloon volumes and a simultaneous, intermittent, hydrostatic bladder dilatation. This method enables reintegration of a bladder which has been excluded from the urinary drainage system for a long period of time into the urinary tract, even in complicated cases, thus avoiding a permanent supravesical urinary diversion.

Zusammenfassung

Fehlschläge in der Behandlung der terminalen Harnleiterstenose sind gerade im Säuglingsalter nicht selten mit einer erheblichen Blasenschrumpfung belastet. Auch angeborene Anomalien der ableitenden Harnwege wie beidseits ektop mündende Ureteren können schon bei Neugeborenen zu einer Schrumpfblase führen.

Anhand von Beispielen aus unserem Krankengut wird die Problematik der kontrakten Harnblase bei Kindern dargelegt und die Methode der kontinuierlichen Blasendistension mit Kathetern unterschiedlicher Ballonvolumina sowie gleichzeitiger intermittierender hydrostatischer Dehnung der Harnblase vorgestellt. Mit diesem Verfahren ist es auch in kompliziert gelagerten Fällen oft noch möglich, eine langzeit ausgeschaltete Harnblase in das ableitende Harnwegssystem zu reintegrieren und damit eine definitive supravesicale Harnableitung zu umgehen.

Résumé

Les échecs lors du traitement de la sténose terminale des voies urinaires se compliquent fréquemment d’un rétrécissement considérable de la vessie, surtout dans le cas de nourrissons. Les anomalies congénitales des voies urinaires excrétrices telles qu’uretères implantés de façon ectopique et bilatérale peuvent provoquer chez les nouveaux-nés un r étrécissement de la vessie.

Nous relatons des exemples illustrant les problèmes associés à la contraction de la vessie chez les enfants et décrivons une méthode de distension continuelle de la vessie à l’aide de cathéters à ballonnets accompagneé d’une dilatation intermittente hydrostatique de la vessie. Cette procédure permet souvent, même dans les cas compliqués, le raccord de la vessie aux voies excrétrices et d’éviter ainsi une dérivation définitive supravésicale de l’urine.

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Gharib, M., Engelskirchen, R. (1989). Bladder Shrinkage as a Complication of Long-Term Supravesical Urinary Diversion in Children with Solitary Kidneys. In: Spitz, L., Wurnig, P., Angerpiontner, T.A. (eds) Surgery in Solitary Kidney and Corrections of Urinary Transport Disturbances. Progress in Pediatric Surgery, vol 23. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74241-5_7

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