Chronic Radiation cystitis: a review of medical and surgical management

Radiation cystitis is a complication of radiation treatment given for pelvic malignancies. can present as mild symptoms dysuria, frequency, and hematuria to severe life-threatening complications like intractable hematuria, bladder perforation contracted non-functional urinary bladder, fistula etc. Treatment tailored according the severity available modalities sequentially. Initial intravenous fluids, blood transfusions, cystoscopy fulguration, irrigation with intravesical agents alum, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, angioembolisation, diversion surgery (cystectomy). associated short- long-term in malignancies patients. Early diagnosis, follow up, crucial decreasing morbidity mortality these In this review article we describe current protocol diagnosing managing cystitis.
 Keywords Pelvis, Radiation, Hematuria, treatments, Alum, formalin