How surgeons rebuild the bladder after cancer

In 57, SUPER BowL Serpesting twice Deion Sanders, has a new bladder.

Colorado University coach recently underwent a restorative surgery to treat an aggressive form of bladder cancer after doctors discovered a tumor this spring.

The procedure, which is called Neobladder, is used, tissues from the patient’s small intestine.

Here is how this is done:

The first surgeons remove the old bladder. Then they cut about and a half feet of the stroke, the final section of the small intestine.

Then the surgeon cut one side of the bowel slice so that it is flat like a sheet. After that, they fold it into two halves, from top to bottom, then connect the back to the front.

Dr. Max Kitts, the designer of the Greenburg Institute of the Bathing at Johns Hopkins University, said the end result is the volleyball similar to the threads.

Finally, the surgeon sews neobladder into the kidneys and urethra.

The ability of the human body to adapt to such a procedure "surprising," The surgeon of Sanders, Dr. Janet Kokriga, director of urology at Colorado Cancer University, says. Patients usually spend a few days to recover in the hospital.

She rebuked Sanders’ Neobladder Reconbruption in a robot and with a laparoscopic camera, a method that requires only small cracks.

Kukreja NPR told that a great aspect of this surgery is that due to the creation of Neobladder of the body’s special tissues, the patient’s immune system does not reject the new organ. Therefore, patients with Neobladders do not need immunosuppressive medications.

Kokriga said that the plastic will not work either to rebuild the bladder because the urinary tract rejects foreign materials. Calcium will build giving patients of bladder stones.

The re -built bladder does not work like a person’s original bladder because it is not possible to send signals to the brain to inform the person of the toilet use.

Dr. Judy Marshi, a UPMC surgical doctor in Pittsburg, says that getting used to one of the new parties is dealing with some training. Gradually increases the interval between bathroom visits so that they can comfortably control the bladder during the day. But the leakage often remains a problem for people during sleep.

During Monday Press conference, Sanders approved this defect. He jokingly said, like his one -year -old grandson, is now "It depends on dependent."

"I know that there are many people going through what I deal with. And deal with what I deal with," He said. "And let us stop shy him."

Kitts said that many people feel shame about urinary incontinence that comes with the rebuilding Neobladder.

That is why Kitts told NPR that it is "I love every moment" Sanders press conference. The urologist described the Famir professional hall as authentic and funny, "The man was not disgraceful."

In fact, two Kitts patients, both about the age of Sanders, the press conference: "Both of them felt completely valid."

An estimated 85,000 people in the United States will receive bladder cancer this year, according to the American Cancer Society data. While most patients with bladder cancer are men, Marshi said that women tend to provide a more advanced and more aggressive disease.

Since the only symptoms of bladder cancer are blood in the urine, you may have some women make a mistake in this warning sign of menstruation.

But Sanders participated in the discovery of his tumor during an annual examination.

He said that if he did not enter this date, things may have turned completely differently.

"Please see yourself," He said. "Because if it is not for me it is tested for something else, they will not stumble in this matter. Make sure you get the right care."

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