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- Title
Experience with non-cycled artificial urinary sphincters.
- Authors
Herndon, C. D. A.; Rink, R. C.; Shaw, M. B. K.; Cain, M. P.; Casale, A. J.
- Abstract
To report our experience in children and adolescents with a non-cycled artificial urinary sphincter. While some children with the AUS can void, others require clean intermittent catheterization (CIC) through the sphincter or an alternative site for catheterization; in some of the latter we have either not cycled (pumped) an activated AUS or the AUS has failed, and there is concern about ischaemia in some adults with a non-cycled AUS. The AUS remains an extremely reliable procedure to achieve continence in children and young adults. It is versatile and can be combined with other procedures that provide an alternative means for catheterization. While some have noted the need to routinely cycle the AUS to prevent erosion, this has not been our experience in these 15 patients.
- Subjects
URINARY organs; SPHINCTERS; URINARY incontinence; URINATION disorders; PEDIATRIC urology; UROLOGY
- Publication
BJU International, 2004, Vol 93, Issue 7, p1049
- ISSN
1464-4096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1464-410X.2003.04779.x