Clinical Case Database / Category: Practical Procedure

Suprapubic catheterisation

Publication details

Alistair Grey MRCS, Priyadarshi Kumar MRCS, Jhumur Pati FRCS FRCS (Urol)
Foundation Years Journal, volume 3, issue 5, p.53 (123Doc Education, London, June 2009)

Abstract

An 80-year-old male presents to the A&E department complaining of lower abdominal pain and an inability to pass urine. The history of this complaint starts a few days previously when his existing, but largely tolerated LUTS became steadily worse.

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Authors

Alistair Grey MRCS

Urology Registrar
Homerton University Hospital
London

Priyadarshi Kumar MRCS

Urology SpR Nottingham Urology Centre

Jhumur Pati FRCS FRCS (Urol)

Consultant Urological Surgeon
Homerton University and Barts
and the London Hospitals

References

1. Kumar P, Pati J. Suprapubic catheters: indications and complications. British Journal of Hospital Medicine, August 2005, 66:466-468.
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3. Mohammed A, Khan A, Shergill I, Gujral S. A new model for suprapubic catheterisation: the Mediplus Seldinger suprapubic catheter. Expert review of Medical Devices, November 2008, (5):705-707.
4. Flock WD, Litvak AS, McRoberts W. Evaluation of closed suprapubic cystostomy. Urology, 1978, 11:40-42.
5. Sethia KK, Selkon JB, Berry AR, Turner CM, Kettlewell MG, Gough MH. Prospective randomised control trial of urethral versus suprapubic catheterisation. Br J Surg, 1995, 82:1367-1368.

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