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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Dewan, P., and M. E. Mitchell, eds. Bladder Augmentation. Oxford Press, 2000.
PERIODICALS
Abrams, P., S.K. Lowry, et al. "Assessment and Treatment of Urinary Incontinence."Lancet...
355 (June 2000): 2153–58
Fantl, J. A., D. K. Newman, J. Colling, et al. "Urinary Incontinence in Adults: Acute and Chronic Management. Clinical Practice Guideline, Number 2, 1996."Agency for Health Policy and Research Publications (March 1996).
Greenwell, T. J., S. N. Venn, and A. R. Mundy. "Augmentation Cystoplasty."British Journal of Urology International 88, no. 6 (October 2001): 511–534.
Qucek, M. I., and D. A. Ginsberg. "Long-term Urodynamics Follow-up of Bladder Augmentation for Neurogenic Bladder."Urology 169 (January 2003): 195–198.
Rackley, R. R., and J. B. Abdelmalak. "Radical Prostatectomy: Laparoscopic Augmentation Cystoplasty."Urological Clinics of America 28 (August 2001).
ORGANIZATIONS
National Association for Continence. P.O. Box 8310 Spartanburg, SC 29305. (800) BLADDER, (252-3337).
National Kidney and Urologic Diseases Information Clearing-house. 3 Information Way, Bethesda, MD 20892-3580. (301) 654-4415.
The Simon Foundation for Continence. P.O. Box 835 Wilmette, IL 60091. (800) 23SIMON (237-4666).
OTHER
"Bladder Augmentation." Dr. Rajhttp. [cited April 2003].
Carr, Michael, and M. E. Mitchell. "Bladder Augmentation."Digital Urological Journal. [cited April 2003].
"Neurogenic Bladder." [cited April 2003].
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Other Information
Bladder augmentation is a surgical alteration of the urinary bladder. It involves removing strips of tissue from the intestinal tract and adding this to the tissue of the bladder. This has two intended results: increased bladder volume; and a reduced percentage of the bladder involved in contraction, that in turn results in lower internal pressures in the bladder during urination.
Risks of bladder augmentation include incomplete voiding of the bladder post-surgery (resulting in the patient having to undergo intermittent catheterisation or an indwelling catheter), acute intestinal obstruction due to adhesions some years after surgery, and, in extremely rare cases, cancers of the intestinal tissue within the bladder. It must be stressed that this risk is very small, and some specialists[weasel words] still regard the link to cancer as a theoretical one.
Other Information
The estimated number of hospital admissions among adults aged 20 or older with “calculus of kidney and ureters” as a primary diagnosis was of 171,000 hospital stays in 2000.
From: NKUDIC
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