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Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury
Iatrogenic ureteric injury is the most common cause of ureteric injury. It is usually caused by either gynecological or urological surgical procedures. Iatrogenic ureteric injury repair depends mainly on the time of diagnosis. We represent here a case of iatrogenic complete transection ureteric inju...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8654142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34926023 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19440 |
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description | Iatrogenic ureteric injury is the most common cause of ureteric injury. It is usually caused by either gynecological or urological surgical procedures. Iatrogenic ureteric injury repair depends mainly on the time of diagnosis. We represent here a case of iatrogenic complete transection ureteric injury resulted from laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. The patient had a history of abdominal hysterectomy causing adhesions that resulted in challenging surgery. One week later, the patient presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, and contrast CT showed left hydronephrosis with extravasation of the contrast at the left renal pelvis. The patient was treated initially with left nephrostomy and an antegrade nephrostogram confirmed the diagnosis of complete transection ureteric injury. Surprisingly, left retrograde study, which was done 11 weeks after the operative injury, showed healing of the ureteric injury with a small annular stricture. The stricture was dilated and a stent was inserted. We concluded that conservative waiting and delayed ureteric repair might be advised in similar injuries allowing time for resolution of the postoperative inflammatory reaction and spontaneous healing. |
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spelling | pubmed-86541422021-12-17 Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury Sayedin, Hani Al-Machhour, Mohammad Cureus Urology Iatrogenic ureteric injury is the most common cause of ureteric injury. It is usually caused by either gynecological or urological surgical procedures. Iatrogenic ureteric injury repair depends mainly on the time of diagnosis. We represent here a case of iatrogenic complete transection ureteric injury resulted from laparoscopic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. The patient had a history of abdominal hysterectomy causing adhesions that resulted in challenging surgery. One week later, the patient presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, and contrast CT showed left hydronephrosis with extravasation of the contrast at the left renal pelvis. The patient was treated initially with left nephrostomy and an antegrade nephrostogram confirmed the diagnosis of complete transection ureteric injury. Surprisingly, left retrograde study, which was done 11 weeks after the operative injury, showed healing of the ureteric injury with a small annular stricture. The stricture was dilated and a stent was inserted. We concluded that conservative waiting and delayed ureteric repair might be advised in similar injuries allowing time for resolution of the postoperative inflammatory reaction and spontaneous healing. Cureus 2021-11-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8654142/ /pubmed/34926023 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19440 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sayedin et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Urology Sayedin, Hani Al-Machhour, Mohammad Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title | Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title_full | Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title_fullStr | Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title_short | Spontaneous Healing of Iatrogenic Complete Ureteric Transection Injury |
title_sort | spontaneous healing of iatrogenic complete ureteric transection injury |
topic | Urology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8654142/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34926023 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.19440 |
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