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Preparing for Cystectomy Removal of the Bladder
Preadmission, Surgery, and the first 8 Weeks
- Scheduled for Surgery
- Preadmission Testing
- Day of Surgery
- Overnight Hospital Stay
- Blood Clot Prevention Protocols
- Discharge from the Hospital
- Supplies
- Home visit nurses
- Indiana Pouch & Neobladder
- Kegel Exercises
- Neobladder
- self-catheterize
- urinating
- Ileal Conduit
- bedside
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Questions or Concerns
Monday-Friday
8:30 am - 5 pm
215-728-4300After Hours Call
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Alexander Kutikov, MD, FACS
Chief, Division of Urology and Urologic Oncology
Treatment Focus
Minimally Invasive Surgery, Robotic Surgery, Laparoscopic Surgery, Traditional Open Surgery
Bladder Cancer: urinary diversion, orthotopic neobladder reconstruction
Cystectomy is a surgery that treats muscle-invasive bladder cancer by removing all or a portion of the bladder.
- In a radical cystectomy, the entire bladder is removed, as well as nearby lymph nodes and pelvic organs (hysterectomy also performed with women/ prostatectomy also performed with men). This is followed by reconstructive surgery to create a urinary diversion, or a new way for the body to store and release urine. Fox Chase urologic surgeons are adept at both traditional and robot-assisted radical cystectomy techniques.
- Very select patients may be able to have a partial cystectomy, in which only the portion of the bladder affected by cancer is removed and the function of the maintained bladder can be preserved.