Bladder control in the female paraplegic patient

Inguinal Bladder Hernia in Female Patient

Electric stimulation of the paraplegic bladder.

D ESPITE SIGNIFICANT improvements within the last 20 years, in both patient care and antibiotic therapy , the major cause of death among victims of paraplegia is still urologic disease. In addition to this everpresent threat, many paraplegics live with chronic high urine residuals and concomitant urinary infections and suffer, as well, the embarrassment caused by lack of voluntary control of mi...

Internal bladder retractor for laparoscopic cystectomy in the female patient.

PURPOSE To overcome difficult dissection of the vascular pedicles during laparoscopic radical cystectomy we used a novel technique of internal bladder retraction. MATERIALS AND METHODS An internal bladder retractor was used to facilitate dissection of the vascular pedicles during laparoscopic radical cystectomy in a female patient. RESULTS The application of the retractor is easy and it all...

Open heart surgery in a paraplegic patient.

We operated on a patient who had been paraplegic since sustaining a spinal cord injury 11 years ago. We made a reversed L-shaped sternum incision and cannulated all tubes for the cardiopulmonary bypass through a wound window. This provided an excellent surgical view without restricting the patient's upper limbs (needed for wheel chair operation), and recovery was good. Just after surgery, howev...

Case of Stone in the Female Bladder