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Objective To review surgical outcomes in urinary undiversions and describe short and long-term complications. Methods Retrospective review of patients who underwent urinary undiversion in our institution between May 2010 and May 2016. Complications were graded according to the Clavien classification. All patients completed the Patient Global Impression of Improvement questionnaire to indicate overall satisfaction with urinary undiversion. Results Median time from the cystectomy to undiversion was 29 months (range 11-53 months). Five patients (55%) reported significant distress related to the ileal conduit and were undiverted into an orthotopic neobladder. A female patient with an orthotopic neobladder and severe urinary incontinence received neobladder neck closure and catheterizable channel. Another female patient with an orthotopic neobladder was undiverted into an Indiana Pouch. Complications during the first 60 days were mostly minor, Clavien I (1 patient), 5 patients Clavien II, and a patient with Clavien IIIb. Patient Global Impression of Improvement questionnaire scores showed that 6 patients (67%) felt “Very much better” and 3 patients (33%) felt “Much better” after urinary undiversion 60%. Conclusion After urinary undiversions, minor complication rate is high, and major complication rate is considerable. Urinary undiversions are a highly complex, yet feasible procedure, which requires experienced multidisciplinary teams and demands appropriate patient selection. Patients, after undiversions show a high degree of satisfaction with long-term satisfactory outcomes, which points out the need for consideration for these procedures once the oncologic disease is controlled.

To assess how pelvic organ prolapse (POP) and treatment affect bladder function. There is significant overlap between POP and bladder symptoms, including urinary incontinence and overactive bladder. POP may result in bladder outlet obstruction (BOO) secondary to urethral kinking, which may result in overactive bladder (OAB), dysfunctional voiding, and occult or de novo stress urinary incontinence (SUI). Improvements in obstructive symptoms and dysfunctional voiding after POP surgery suggest that pelvic floor reconstruction restores pelvic floor anatomic structure and function. Furthermore, correction of anatomic structure also seems to improve OAB symptoms, although a direct causative link has yet to be established. Pelvic floor syndromes should be interpreted as a whole. POP, OAB, urinary incontinence, BOO, and dysfunctional voiding are all part of pelvic floor syndromes, coexisting and interacting to manifest different symptoms before and after POP treatment.

Introduction and objective To evaluate complications, morbidity and oncologic outcomes of pelvic exenteration as treatment for gynecologic malignancies. Materials and methods Between 2008 and 2015, a total of 35 patients underwent pelvic exenteration, due to recurrence of gynecological cancer. Surgical outcomes, early and late postoperative complications, and recurrence/survival outcomes were assessed. Results Mean patient age was 53.8 years. Anterior exenteration was done in 20 patients, while 15 were total exenterations. Ileal conduit was done in 24 patients, while 8 received a neobladder and 3 a cutaneous ureterostomy. Postoperative complications were divided in 2 groups, early ( 30 days). A total of 25 patients (71.4%) had one or more early complications; 16 (45.7%) had fever due to a urinary tract infection, pyelonephritis or intra-abdominal collection; 2 (5.7%) developed a vesicovaginal fistula; 4 (11.4%) a rectovaginal fistula; 3 (8.5%) acute kidney failure and one (2.85%) uronephrosis. Regarding to late complications, 8 patients (22.8%) had fever. Six (17%) presented with uronephrosis, and 5 (14.2%) with ureteral-pouch stricture. Five patients (14.2%) had acute renal insufficiency, 3 (8,6%) rectovaginal fistula and one (2.85%) urinary fistula. Mean follow up time was 20.3 month (2–60). A total of 22 patients (62.8%) were free of disease. Another 13 (37.1%) patients relapsed. Only 4 (11.4%) patients died after pelvic exenteration due to underlying disease. Conclusion Pelvic exenteration has a high rate of complications and morbidity, but can be the last curative opportunity in patients with recurrent or persistent gynecologic malignancies. This procedure should be performed by multidisciplinary, experienced teams in a tertiary medical center.

We aimed to review all information on penile prosthetic surgery in patients with prior phalloplasty and give a detailed description of the authors's preferred technique. A nonsytematic review of the articles that were published in English and indexed on Pubmed, Google Scholar, and Embase databases was conducted. The relevant literature reports mainly on the outcomes of penile prosthesis (PP) implantation following gender affirming phalloplasty with the radial forearm free flap technique. Three-piece inflatable penile prostheses (IPP) have been the most commonly utilized hardware in this setting. PP implantation in a neophallus is a complex procedure and contains some technical nuances. Creation of spaces within the neophallus for the cylinder(s), wrapping the cylinder(s) with synthetic materials or allografts, and fixation of the prosthesis to the pubic bony structures can be considered as the most important steps of this procedure. Five-year IPP retention rates in flap phalloplasty range between 42 and 78% which is lower than the rate observed in anatomic phallus. In addition, complication and mechanical failure rates are higher in flap phalloplasty. However, satisfaction rates after PP implantations in anatomic penis versus neophallus seem to be similarly high. Infection, migration, and mechanical failure are the most frequent complications.

Objectives: To compare preoperative Charlson comorbidity Index (CCI) and postoperative complications after oncologic kidney surgery in patients aged 70 or older. To compare CCI and need for interdisciplinary evaluation, consults to the emergency department and need of readmission are secondary objectives. Patients and methods: This is a retrospective cohort study. Patients aged 70 or older who underwent partial or radical nephrectomy were collected from an institutional database. Period: February 2012–June 2014. Association between CCI and complications was estimated using Chi2. Results: Final population: 143 (male: 65%). Age median was 75. Minor postoperative complications were 33.88% (n = 41) for patients CCI ≤ 4 versus 9.09% (n = 2) for patients CCI > 4 (p > 0.05), and major postoperative complications were 9.91% (n = 12) versus 45.45% (n = 10), respectively (p 4 (p = 0.01). Readmission was needed for 9.09% (n = 11) and 40.1% (n = 11) respectively (p

Context The treatment of high-risk prostate cancer requires a multimodal approach to improve control of the disease. There is still no consensus as to the initial strategy of choice. The aim of this study is to review the results of radical prostatectomy as first step in management of patients with high-risk disease. Acquisition of evidence A search was conducted on PubMed of English and Spanish texts. We included those studies that reported the results of radical prostatectomy in patients with high-risk prostate cancer, as well as those that compared radical prostatectomy with other treatment alternatives. The last search was conducted in November 2015. Synthesis of the evidence The advantages of radical prostatectomy include a better pathological analysis, more accurate staging, better local control of the disease and better follow-up and adjuvant therapy strategies. When compared with external radiation therapy plus hormonal blockade, the patients who underwent prostatectomy had greater chances of healing and longer cancer-specific survival. The patients who most benefit from this approach are younger, have fewer comorbidities and no evidence of organ metastases. Conclusions The available scientific evidence to date is not without bias and confounders; however, they appear to favor radical prostatectomy as the initial approach of choice for high-risk prostate cancer.

Hysterectomy is the standard of care in placenta accreta spectrum (PAS). To reduce the risks of obstetric hemorrhage during surgery, endovascular interventions have been proposed. Our aim is to evaluate the feasibility and safety of the overall non-conservative management of PAS in the hybrid operating room (OR) to replace the classic two-step procedure (catheterization in the interventional radiology suite and transfer to conventional OR). This is a retrospective study of series of patients with histopathologic confirmation of PAS treated in the hybrid OR at the same university hospital. We used for comparison our historical cohort managed with the standard two-step procedure. We included 110 patients, 80 in the conventional OR and 30 in the hybrid OR. There were no cases of major complications attributable to the endovascular procedures. In the two-step procedure, there were 10 (12.5%) intra-arterial catheter displacements that required repositioning in the conventional OR under mobile C-arm fluoroscopy and no cases in the hybrid OR (p = 0.04). The mean operative time was 380 + 42 min in the conventional OR and 296 + 66 min in the hybrid OR (p = .00001). There were no differences in the gestational age at delivery, postoperative length of stay, or large-volume blood transfusion. There were no maternal deaths. The overall non-conservative management of PAS in the hybrid OR has shown to be feasible and safe in our series, offering potential advantages to replace the classic two-step procedure. More studies are needed to evaluate whether this strategy is cost-effective and whether it may improve maternal and perinatal outcomes.

Aim To examine the location of midurethral slings (MUS) at the time of excision to determine associations between presenting symptoms and sling location at explant. Methods We performed an IRB approved, retrospective review of MUS explants between January 2011 and March 2016. Symptoms and physical examination findings were compared between women with slings explanted from the mid-urethra (MU) and women with slings explanted from the proximal urethra/bladder neck (PU/BN). Results We included 95 consecutive women who underwent MUS explant in the analysis. Presenting symptoms included pain in 69 women (72.6%), urinary urgency in 66 (66.5%), voiding dysfunction in 55 (57.9%), urge urinary incontinence (UUI) in 41 (43.2%), stress urinary incontinence in 34 (35.8%), and recurrent urinary tract infections in 22 (23.2%). At sling explant, 2 (2.1%) slings were found at the distal urethra, 33 (34.7%) at the MU and 60 (63.2%) at the PU/BN. Women with slings explanted from the PU/BN were more likely to present with urgency (78.3% vs 54.5%; P = 0.017) and UUI (53.3% vs 27.3%; P = 0.015) and less likely to present with pain on examination (48.3% vs 75.8%; P = 0.01). Conclusions The majority of MUS requiring explant in this cohort were found at the PU/BN. The most common presenting symptom before MUS explant was pain, followed by urgency and voiding dysfunction. PU/BN location of MUS is likely a factor in the development of urgency and UUI in women who ultimately undergo explant.