VCUG after RARP

ShoreGuy

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Joined : Mar 2012

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Posted 4/19/2012 1:46 PM (GMT 0)

I'm scheduled for my RARP on May 9. (Originally scheduled for 4/11, but delayed due to scare on bone scan, resulting in inconclusive needle biopsy of rib, followed by partial rib resection, which came back negative!)...

Paperwork from uro talks about a VCUG (voiding cystourethrogram) one week after Sx, to determine if the catheter can come out. Trying to determine exactly how that procedure is done. The literature online talks of insertion of a catheter in order to fill the bladder with a contrast die in order to trace its route.

I'm assuming that since the cath will already be in place in my case, there'd be no more poking and prodding needed? (I.e., the existing cath would be used for the introduction of the die?)

Thanks.

Purgatory

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Posted 4/19/2012 2:09 PM (GMT 0)

Yes, with the cath in place already, all they need to do, is to insert any fluid or dye through the irragation port on the catheter. This is the same port that they fill the bulb portion of the cath (the balloon that holds the cath in place), they sometimes use the same port to flush the cath out if it gets clogged.

Good luck on your surgery.

David in SC

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