Vol. 44 (5): 1036-1041, September – October, 2018
doi: 10.1590/S1677-5538.IBJU.2018.0005
CHALLENGING CLINICAL CASES
Cinthia Alcántara-Quispe 1, Roberto Dias Machado 1, Wesley Justino Magnabosco 1, Alexandre Cesar Santos 1, Eliney Ferreira Faria 1
1 Departamento de Urologia, Hospital do Câncer de Barretos, Barretos, SP, Brasil
ABSTRACT
Standard radical cystectomy (RC) in women involves removal of the distal ureters, bladder, proximal urethra, uterus, ovaries, and adjacent vagina. Furthermore, pelvic organ-preserving RC to treat selected women has become an accepted technique and may confer better postoperative sexual and urinary functions than standard RC, avoid¬ing complications such as incontinence, prolapse, neobladder-vaginal fistula (NVF), and sexual dysfunction, without compromising oncological outcome.
This article reports a different surgical approach: a patient who underwent a cutane¬ous continent reservoir and neovagina construction using a previous ileal orthotopic neobladder after RC. Patient presented no complications and she has no evidence of recurrent disease and is sexually active, with a satisfactory continent reservoir. This case is the first report of this procedure that was able to treat concomitant dyspareunia caused by short vagina and neobladder-vaginal fistula.
In conclusion, standard radical cystectomy with no vaginal preservation can have a negative impact on quality of life. In the present case, we successfully treated neoblad¬der fistula and short vagina by transforming a previous ileal orthotopic neobladder into two parts: a continent reservoir and a neovagina. However, to establish the best approach in such patients, more cases with long-term follow-up are needed.
Keywords: Urinary Bladder Neoplasms; Cystectomy; Urinary Reservoirs, Continentx
