PFD Week 2016-Surgical Techniques for Urethral Reconstruction Using a Vaginal Flap

Surgical Techniques for Urethral Reconstruction Using a Vaginal Flap

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This video illustrates a surgical technique for urethral reconstruction using a vaginal flap in a 50-year-old woman with severe stress urinary incontinence. The patient had previously undergone a synthetic sling procedure that resulted in complications, necessitating sling removal. Following sling removal, her urinary incontinence worsened. Physical examination revealed a short urethra and a distal dorsal plate of urethral mucosa. The surgical procedure involved the harvest of a pubovaginal sling from rectus fascia, followed by urethral reconstruction. The neourethra was created, and the pubovaginal sling was secured into position. After the procedure, the Foley catheter was left in place for 10 to 14 days. (No explicit credits were mentioned in the transcript.)

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Dominique Malacarne, MD

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Category Surgery - Vaginal Procedures

Category Urinary Incontinence

Keywords

surgical technique

urethral reconstruction

vaginal flap

stress urinary incontinence

pubovaginal sling