Abstract
Objectives: To assess the urodynamic and clinical outcome of a laparoscopic auto-augmentated bladder.
Methods: Laparoscopic bladder autoaugmentation in a 27-year-old woman with an incomplete spinal cord injury at T12 level with urge incontinence caused by a hyperreflexic bladder.
Results: Six months later the patient voids by Valsalva's manoeuvre every 3 h and remains dry day and night. The radio-urodynamic study, performed 2 months later, revealed an intact bladder with a diverticulum of anterior wall and a capacity of 510 ml with filling rate of 100 ml/min without evidence of leakage of infusion water.
Conclusion: Laparoscopic retropubic auto-augmentation allows a brief hospital stay and minor postoperative discomfort. Moreover the laparoscopic approach should not complicate or preclude subsequent enterocystoplasty if necessary.
Spinal Cord (2000) 38, 59–61.
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Siracusano, S., Trombetta, C., Liguori, G. et al. Laparoscopic bladder auto-augmentation in an incomplete traumatic spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord 38, 59–61 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.sc.3100939
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