Abstract:
The quality of life in patients with urinary incontinence or irreparable urethral stricturing can be
improved by diversion with construction of catheterizable urinary stomas. We report our
experience with three patients who required urinary diversion and underwent the Mitrafanoff
procedure. The cases involved an eight year old with myelomeningocele, paraplegia and urinary
incontinence, a 32 year old male with irreparable traumatic urethral stricture and an eighteen
year old paraplegic man who developed urethral stricture secondary to prolonged catheterization
for urine retention. Three years after their surgeries, they are continent with normal renal
function.