CHOICE OF A PROCEDURE FOR FORMATION OF URETEROILEAL ANASTOMOSIS DURING BRICKER URINE DERIVATION IN ELDERLY AND SENILE PATIENTS

Background. How to derive urine is stemmed from removal of the bladder and from the necessity of its disengaging from the process of urination. Most surgeons prefer to do incontinent urine derivation in elderly and senile patients.Subjects and methods. In 2007 to 2009, the Leningrad Regional Oncology Dispensary treated 103 patients with diseases requiring the bladder be removed. All these patients underwent cystectomy as an independent operation or one of the surgical stages, followed by incontinent urine derivation described by Bricker. The patients were divided into 2 groups: 1) Bricker-type end-to-side ureteroileal anastomosis; 2) Wallace-type one. Group 1 comprised 50 patients: 37 (74 %) women and 13 (26 %) men; Group 2 included 53 patients: 48 (90.6 %) women and 5 (9.6 %) men. These were elderly and senile patients aged 60 to 79 years (mean age 65 ± 3.71).Results. In Group 1, 36 (72 %) patients were preoperatively diagnosed as having hydroureteronephrosis (HUN). Of them, 23 (64%) patients underwent preoperative percutaneous puncture nephrostomy (PPN). In Group 2, HUN was diagnosed in 43 (81 %) patients; of them 27 (63 %) had PPN. Complications and resurgeries were more common in Group 1 (p < 0.001). In Group 2, there were a larger number of cases of incompetence of the ureteroileal anastomosis. This complication required no surgical correction, but a longer drainage standing.Conclusion. The Bricker operation is the safest urine derivation in elderly and senile patients after surgery involving cystectomy. Wallacetype ureteroileal anastomosis during the Bricker operation is accompanied by a considerable reduction in the number of early and late postoperative complications and resurgeries. Wallace-type ureteroileal anastomosis is considered the method of choice in cancer patients.