Journal Reviews

Long-term bladder drainage: blessing or disaster in disguise

1 May 2014 | | Infection | bladder dysfunction, catheter complications, catheterization, long term catheterization, quality of life, urethral indwelling catheters

Chronic bladder dysfunction occurs in many neurologic disorders e.g. multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, etc. Suprapubic catheters (SPC) are inserted every day and every urology department has a pool of ‘difficult’ patients who keep coming back. This paper compares SPCs...