Twenty-seven years of complication-free life with clean intermittent self-catheterization in a patient with spinal cord injury: A case report.:
Twenty-seven years of complication-free life with clean intermittent self-catheterization in a patient with spinal cord injury: A case report.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2004 Oct;85(10):1705-7
Authors: Mizuno K, Tsuji T, Kimura A, Liu M, Masakado Y, Chino N
Currently, clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC) is the most prevalent method of bladder management in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge from rehabilitation centers. However, half of the patients discontinue using CISC and change to other methods of bladder management several months postdischarge despite the fact that it the best way to prevent urinary tract complications. Few studies, however, report the long-term consequences of CISC. In this case, we present a woman in her early fifties who had sustained thoracic SCI and had continued using CISC for 27 years without developing any complications. The possible reasons for her success were absence of incontinence because of underactive and normal capacity bladder; normal upper-extremity functions and absence of marked spasticity of lower extremities that facilitated CISC technique; and absence of sociovocational problems, enabling her to keep proper intervals between catheterizations each day. This case indicates that CISC is useful for long-term bladder management in patients with SCI, even for 25 years or more. Long-term outcomes of CISC and factors leading to success need to be delineated in future studies with larger samples.
PMID: 15468034 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
Last Updated: July 27, 2020 by uabadmin
Twenty-seven years of complication-free life with clean intermittent self-catheterization in a patient with spinal cord injury: A case report.
Twenty-seven years of complication-free life with clean intermittent self-catheterization in a patient with spinal cord injury: A case report.:
Twenty-seven years of complication-free life with clean intermittent self-catheterization in a patient with spinal cord injury: A case report.
Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2004 Oct;85(10):1705-7
Authors: Mizuno K, Tsuji T, Kimura A, Liu M, Masakado Y, Chino N
Currently, clean intermittent self-catheterization (CISC) is the most prevalent method of bladder management in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge from rehabilitation centers. However, half of the patients discontinue using CISC and change to other methods of bladder management several months postdischarge despite the fact that it the best way to prevent urinary tract complications. Few studies, however, report the long-term consequences of CISC. In this case, we present a woman in her early fifties who had sustained thoracic SCI and had continued using CISC for 27 years without developing any complications. The possible reasons for her success were absence of incontinence because of underactive and normal capacity bladder; normal upper-extremity functions and absence of marked spasticity of lower extremities that facilitated CISC technique; and absence of sociovocational problems, enabling her to keep proper intervals between catheterizations each day. This case indicates that CISC is useful for long-term bladder management in patients with SCI, even for 25 years or more. Long-term outcomes of CISC and factors leading to success need to be delineated in future studies with larger samples.
PMID: 15468034 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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