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  • When posting a question, you don't - Me

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I got this straight from the horse's mouth so to speak. Actually from the Peds Urologist whose work I do. He lives in Arizona.

A bladder augmentation with the small bowel ileum (ileocystoplasty) and the creation of a continent catheterizable channel using the small bowel and reconfiguring that into a short tube or channel that is implanted into the bladder.  That allows the patient to catheterize from the abdomen (often the belly button) rather than having to cath through the urethra since after the augmentation they usually can not void enough to empty the enlarged bladder.  It was described by a physician named Montie (I think at the Univ of Miami) and is now often called a Montie catheterizable channel.  Both are an attempt to make a small bladder (eg neurogenic bladder) bigger to hold more urine and avoid urinary incontinence.  Essentially trading an enlarged bladder with the need for catheterization to maintain continence for too small a bladder and incontinence.

It's a minor annoyance....but when you go to the verification page, do you have to click in the box to put in the letter/number combination?

On the other boards, the cursor is already there. I can't tell you how many times I have glanced at the code, entered it without looking at the screen, then hit "enter", only to get an error message and have to enter a new code. I finally started paying attention and as far as I can tell, this is the only board that does that.

As I said, minor but annoying.....wanted to see if anyone else has experienced that.