Lifetime advice to patients after urinary diversion

Abstract

The use of bowel segments for urinary diversion is the reason of physiological changes, and therefore it has a lifelong impact on the patients metabolism and quality of life. Until now almost all bowel segments from stomach to the rectum have been used for urinary diversion techniques. The use of every different bowel segment causes its own pathopysiological changes in the patient. In the lifelong treatment of the patient it is inevitable to know about and monitor the changes caused by the urinary diversion to avoid serious health damage to the patient. In this chapter we focus on the nowadays mainly used urinary diversions and their spectrum of possible changes in the patients to give a lifetime advice to the patient after urinary diversion.