In this Case Study, Tu et al. report a 76-year-old man who presented repeatedly with bleeding from an ileal conduit, identified as being caused by an isolated varix secondary to portal hypertension.

The ileal conduit is a surgical procedure that involves using your ileum to create a channel for urine to exit your body through a stoma on your abdomen. “Ileal conduit” is also the name of ...

An ileal conduit is a type of surgery that diverts urine to a urostomy pouch following bladder removal or ... They will then attach this piece of intestine to a hole in the abdomen called a stoma.

Ileal conduit (also named ileoureterostomy) was performed alone for 19 ... This is probably due to the short segment used as a conduit and to the wide stoma that prevents urinary stasis and re ...

Background: Patients with advanced primary or recurrent colorectal cancers that undergo total pelvic exenteration for cure or palliation require proximal urinary and fecal diversion. The most commonly ...

The stoma created during this surgery may be pink to red in color, depending on your natural skin tone. ... An ileal conduit is the most common type of urinary diversion surgery.

A standard or conventional urostomy — also called incontinent diversion — uses an ileal conduit to collect ... of the piece of the ileum to the front of the abdominal wall and form a stoma.

Unlike an ileal conduit, the pouch has valves to keep the urine from backing into the kidneys or spilling out of the stoma. An external urostomy bag is not necessary for a continent diversion.

Peristomal skin complications are common among ostomy patients. ... and a urostomy uses either an ileal or cecal conduit to redirect urine from a diseased or defective bladder via a surgical stoma.

To the Editor: Hematuria can be caused by a variety of conditions, including cancer, infections, and calculi. We recently treated a patient with an ileal conduit and cirrhosis, who had hematuria d ...