The Japanese Journal of Urology
Online ISSN : 1884-7110
Print ISSN : 0021-5287
ISSN-L : 0021-5287
LOWER URINARY TRACT FUNCTION IN MYELOMENINGOCELE
Long-Term Follow-up Data
Masahiko SaitoKumiko KatoMomokazu GotohAtsuo Kondo
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1990 Volume 81 Issue 1 Pages 75-81

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We have analyzed long-term follow-up data of the lower urinary tract in 58 myelodysplastic patients. The patients consisted of 16 males and 42 females, whose age varied from 3 months to 16 years old (mean of 7). The follow-up periods ranged from 18 to 100 months (mean of 82).
1. While the bladder compliance of 41 patients conservatively treated with clean intermittent catheterization increased significantly from 5.1 to 11.1ml/cmH2O, that of 17 patients who underwent anti-reflux surgery failed to do so.
2. A significant correlation was observed between bladder deformity and bladder complicance. A severe deformity was encountered more in the patients surgically treated.
3. Uninhibited contractions decreased in magnitude or disappeared in 26 patients, and increased in strength or developed newly in 8. The remaining 24 cases did not demonstrate them at all.
4. The maximum urethral closure pressure changed±20 percent of the initial value in 27 of 38 patients (71%). The mean value tended to fall at 60cmH2O.

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