Purpose. The postsurgical use of N-acetylcysteine, octreotide, and other agents to reduce mucus accumulation after urinary diversion procedures is described. Conclusion. Various agents evaluated ...

When the bladder is removed, the urinary tract must be reconstructed to allow passage of urine. This is called a urinary diversion. In a male the nerves responsible for the urge for erections run ...

Radical cystectomy with urinary diversion can be performed with acceptable functional and oncologic outcomes in appropriately selected elderly patients at high-volume centers. The presence of ...

Evaluating the survival benefits of adjuvant immunotherapy in muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma: A real-world experience. Preoperative and operative characteristics for patients undergoing radical ...

Only the viable treatment option is to surgically remove the bladder completely and urinary diversion. Surgery can only be performed in those patients with localized cancer. Advanced cancer cannot ...

A comparative analysis of complication rates in urinary diversions: Exploring the impact of contemporary surgical trends. Demographics and perioperative characteristics of patients stratified by ...

Researchers successfully performed robot-assisted kidney transplantation (RAKT) on two patients who had previously undergone cystectomy and urinary diversion (UD) for benign bladder disease.