Dana A Weiss, Travis W Groth, Suhaib Abdulfattah Abdulfattah, Sahar Eftekharzadeh, Ted Lee, Richard Lee, Douglas A Canning, John V Kryger, Aseem R Shukla, Elizabeth B Roth, Michael E Mitchell, Joseph G Borer
BACKGROUND: Bladder exstrophy (BE) poses challenges both during the surgical repair and throughout follow-up. In 2013, a multi-institutional BE consortium was initiated, which included utilization of unified surgical principles for the complete primary repair of exstrophy (CPRE), real time coaching, ongoing video capture and review of video footage, prospective data collection, and routine patient data analysis, with the goal of optimizing the surgical procedure to minimize devastating complications such as glans ischemia and bladder dehiscence while maximizing the rate of volitional voiding with continence and long term protection of the upper tracts...
April 15, 2024: Journal of Urology