Journals / Turkish Journal of Urology / 2018 / Cilt: 44 - Sayı: 2

Management of a patient with vesicocutaneous fistula presenting 13 years after radiotherapy performed for cervical cancer

Serviks kanseri için radyoterapi uygulandıktan 13 yıl sonra vezikokutanöz fistülle gelen bir hastanın yönetimi

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185–188
Publication Date
2022-11-05
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This case shows that vacuum-assisted closuretherapy is efficient for complicated wound healing of a VCF after radiotherapy

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Objective & Hypothesis:A vesicocutaneous fistula (VCF) is a tract that is formed abnormally between the bladder and the externalsurface of the body.
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Key Findings & Data:A 72-year-old female was diagnosed with VCF as a late complication after radiotherapy for cervicalcancer.
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Conclusion & Impact:This case shows that vacuum-assisted closuretherapy is efficient for complicated wound healing of a VCF after radiotherapy
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Abstract

A vesicocutaneous fistula (VCF) is a tract that is formed abnormally between the bladder and the externalsurface of the body. VCF results in a great deal of inconvenience, discomfort, and physical disability for theaffected patient. This condition can be caused by extensive trauma with pelvic bone fracture, radical pelvicsurgery, irradiation of pelvic malignancies, hip arthroplasty, a large bladder calculus, and various other pathologies.The management of VCF should be approached on a case-by-case basis because of the complexityof the disease. In this report, we present a case of VCF that was managed by using vacuum-assisted closuretherapy. A 72-year-old female was diagnosed with VCF as a late complication after radiotherapy for cervicalcancer. After radiotherapy, she had lower urinary tract symptoms and was diagnosed as a neurogenicbladder. She started to perform clean intermittent catheterization (CIC). She was subsequently diagnosedas chronic kidney disease stage 5 due to hypertensive nephrosclerosis, and started to receive hemodialysis.Recently, she avoided CIC because of decreased urine output. Despite urinary diversion and surgicaldebridement, the surgical wound had not healed after several days. After vacuum assisted closure therapy,the surgical wound healed and filled with granulation tissue. This case shows that vacuum-assisted closuretherapy is efficient for complicated wound healing of a VCF after radiotherapy

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Vezikokutanöz fistül (VKF) mesaneyle vücudun dış yüzeyi arasında oluşmuş normal dışı bir trakttır. Hastada çok büyük zorluklara, rahatsızlık ve fiziksel özürlülük haline neden olur. Bu duruma, kemik pelvis kırığına neden olan yaygın travma, radikal pelvis cerrahisi, pelvis maliniteleri için uygulanan radyoterapi, kalça artroplastisi, büyük mesane taşı ve benzer başka patolojiler neden olabilmektedir. VKF tedavisine, patolojinin kompleks yapısı nedeniyle olgu temelinde yaklaşılmalıdır. Bu yazıda vakum yardımlı kapatma uygulamasıyla tedavi edilmiş bir VKF olgusunu sunuyoruz. Yetmiş iki yaşındaki bir kadına serviks kanseri nedeniyle uygulanan radyoterapi sonrası geç komplikasyon olarak VKF tanısı konuldu. Radyoterapiden sonrası alt üriner sistem yakınmaları olan hasta nörojen mesane tanısı aldı. Temiz aralıklı kateterizayona (TAK) başlandı. Daha sonra hipertansif nefroskleroza bağlı evre 5 kronik böbrek hastalığı tanısı konuldu ve hemodiyaliz tedavisi aldı. Son zamanlarda idrar miktarında azalma nedeniyle TAK’ı bırakıldı. Üriner diversiyon ve cerrahi debridmana rağmen birkaç gün içinde cerrahi yara iyileşmemişti. Vakum yardımlı yara kapatma tedavisinden sonra cerrahi yara iyileşti ve granülasyon dokusuyla doldu. Bu olgu vakum yardımlı yara kapatma tedavisinin radyoterapi sonrası oluşan VKF yarasının iyileştirilmesinde etkili olduğunu göstermektedir.

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KİM, H. T., YOO, E. S., KİM, S. W., LEE, J. N. (2022). Management of a patient with vesicocutaneous fistula presenting 13 years after radiotherapy performed for cervical cancer. Turkish Journal of Urology, Cilt: 44 - Sayı: 2, 185–188. https://ajindex.com/articles/614382

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