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Ervin Kocjancic1, Simone Crivellaro, Michele Favro
1Ospedale Maggiore della Carità, University of Novara, Novara, Italy. e.koc@tiscali.it
Urologia Internationalis
|August 27, 2005
Abstract:
Bladder outlet obstruction can negatively affect renal function in the kidney transplant population. Functional obstruction represents a clinical challenge as conventional treatments are either ineffective or not recommended. Sacral neuromodulation was successfully used in functional voiding dysfunction in a kidney transplant patient. This is the first case to be reported in the literature.
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