Orthotopic continent urinary diversion after radical cystectomy in pediatric patients with genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma.

Purpose: We present our experience with orthotopic continent urinary diversion following radical cystectomy due to genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma in children not responding to radiotherapy or chemotherapy.

Materials And Methods: Four children with persistent genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma underwent radical cystectomy with reconstruction of an orthotopic ileal neobladder.

Results: Average followup was 50.

Kidney transplantation into bladder augmentation or urinary diversion: long-term results.

Background: We report on a single-institutional experience with renal transplantation in patients with severe lower urinary tract dysfunction (LUTD) who underwent bladder augmentation or urinary diversion, and assess the long-term results.

Methods: From September 1987 to January 2005, 255 patients (161 male and 94 female), 7 months to 39 years old of age (median age at time of transplantation 14 years), received 271 kidney transplants. Etiology of end-stage renal disease was LUTD in 83 cases.

Renal transplantation in prune-belly syndrome.

We assess the effect of the prune-belly syndrome (PBS) on renal transplantation outcome. Six renal transplantations were performed in five boys affected by PBS (median age 5.8+/-2.