Is an artificial sphincter the best choice for incontinent boys with Spina Bifida? Review of our long term experience with the AS-800 artificial sphincter.

Objective: We describe our long-term experience in a uniform population of Spina Bifida boys all treated with the AS-800 model artificial urinary sphincter (AUS) and compare our results to other treatment modalities available to children with neurogenic incontinence.

Materials And Methods: The complete medical records of 30 patients with insertion of the AS-800 were reviewed. All were boys having Spina Bifida with only one having prior bladder neck reconstruction.

High-flow priapism associated with Fabry's disease in a child: a case report and review of the literature.

We report a case of priapism in an 11-year-old boy known to have Fabry's disease. High flow was confirmed by color flow Doppler ultrasound and intracorporal blood gas measurements. Successful treatment was achieved by unilateral percutaneous Gelfoam embolization of the left internal pudendal artery.

A minipig model for urodynamic evaluation of infravesical obstruction and its possible reversibility.

Purpose: The aim of our study was to create reproducible partial bladder outlet obstruction and to evaluate the resulting urodynamic changes.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-one female Yucatan microswine were randomly divided into obstructed and control groups. In the obstructed group of 21 animals, an artificial 4.

Gastric muscularis as a urinary sphincter.

Objective: To test the ability of gastric muscularis to act as a urinary sphincter in a rat model system.

Methods: Fourteen Long-Evans rats had an ileal conduit constructed joining the bladder to the ventral skin, creating urinary incontinence. A segment of gastric muscle maintained on its vascular pedicle was encircled around the conduit.