[Treatment of neurogenic detrusor hyperactivity: detrusor myomectomy]

This article reviews the technical principles and results of bladder auto-augmentation by detrusor myomectomy. This technique has been regularly presented since the 1970s as an alternative to enterocystoplasty, especially in children. This review of the literature demonstrates that the current results of bladder auto-augmentation are highly controversial. Most series of patients with neurogenic bladder with a relatively long mean follow-up (about 6 years) conclude on the inefficacy of this technique on both symptoms and objective parameters (urodynamic results). It therefore seems difficult to recommend bladder auto-augmentation by detrusor myomectomy as a reliable alternative to enterocystoplasty, which remains the reference technique.