Artificial urinary sphincter in children: voiding or emptying? an evaluation of functional results in 44 patients
@article{Catti2007ArtificialUS,
title={Artificial urinary sphincter in children: voiding or emptying? an evaluation of functional results in 44 patients},
author={M. Catti and S. Lortat-Jacob and M. Morineau and H. Lottmann},
journal={Journal of Pediatric Urology},
year={2007},
volume={3}
}Purpose To evaluate functional results with an artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) in children and adolescents in terms of complications, continence and voiding ability in long term follow-up. Material and methods From 1986 to 2005, at Hopital Necker-Enfants Malades, 44 patients (39 males, 5 females, aged 8,6-29,5 years, median age 14 years) had a pericervical AMS 800 AUS for severe urinary incontinence of neuropathic origin in 42. 25 patients had an augmentation cystoplasty before (8… Expand