Main description:

Dr. Cookson has put together topics and authors that speak to current knowledge on urinary diversion. Top experts provide timely clinical reviews on the most relevant information to urologists performing this surgery. Articles are devoted to the following topics: Patient Selection and Counseling for Urinary Diversion; Perioperative Preparation and Nutritional Considerations; Male Neobladder; Female Neobladder; Continent Cutaneous Urinary Diversion; Conduit Urinary Diversion; Metabolic and Nutritional Complications of Urinary Diversion; Surgical Complications of Continent Diversion; Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion; Secondary Tumors after Urinary Diversion; Quality of Life in Urinary Diversion; Urinary Diversion in Renal Transplant Patients; Urinary Diversion in the Pediatric Patients; and Tissue Engineering and Conduit Substitution. Readers will leave with the current information they need to manage patients surgically and clinically.

Contents:

Urologic Clinics of North America

Contemporary Approaches to Urinary Diversion and Reconstruction

Foreword: Re-Creating the Urinary Tract: An Art Derived from Science

Preface: Urinary Diversion: Nutritional Evolution and Surgical Revolution

Patient Selection and Counseling for Urinary Diversion

Perioperative Preparation and Nutritional Considerations for Patients Undergoing Urinary Diversion

Metabolic and Nutritional Consequences of Urinary Diversion Using Intestinal Segments to Reconstruct the Urinary Tract

Conduit Urinary Diversion

Male Neobladder

Orthotopic Urinary Diversion for Women

Continent Cutaneous Diversion

Robotic Cystectomy with Intracorporeal Urinary Diversion: Review of Current Techniques and Outcomes

Surgical Complications of Urinary Diversion

Secondary Tumors After Urinary Diversion

Quality of Life and Urinary Diversion

Urinary Diversion in Renal Transplantation

Advances in Pediatric Urinary Diversion

Tissue Engineering and Conduit Substitution