Upper and lower urinary tract outcomes in adult myelomeningocele patients: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The introduction of sophisticated treatment of bladder dysfunction and hydrocephalus allows the majority of SB patients to survive into adulthood. However, no systematic review on urological outcome in adult SB patients is available and no follow-up schemes exist.

Objectives

To systematically summarize the evidence on outcome of urinary tract functioning in adult SB patients.

Methods

A literature search in PubMed and Embase databases was done. Only papers published in the last 25 years describing patients with open SB with a mean age >18 years were included. We focused on finding differences in the treatment strategies, e.g., clean intermittent catheterization and antimuscarinic drugs versus early urinary diversion, with regard to long-term renal and bladde

SUBMITTER: Veenboer PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3485227 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature