Editorial Comment: Self-perception, quality of life and ease of catheterization in patients with continent urinary diversion with the mitrofanoff principle
Abstract:The Mitrofanoff principle came to meet the needs of patients and urologists at the seventies decade. It made easier the intermitent self catheterization by the neurological impaired patients stablishing a way to empty the bladder without the need of a huge mobilization specially for the wheelchair bound patients or their caregivers. As the numbers of proceedings raised, the numbers of complications went up too. This is well related in most of the papers published about the Mitrofanoff technique. The high numbe… Show more
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