What are the different pouches?

[spunkylady]

Please explain the different pouches. Do you call them different names in the USA?

[squid56]

What type are you talking about? There are some for bladder and some for intestines. For the bladder - there are Indiana pouch, Kock pouch- (they have those for bowel too) and there is also the Mitrofanoff. I know there is also something a Miami pouch and I am sure there are other names too. I have a version of the Indiana pouch. For stool, there is a the Kock pouch, BCIR, and others. Someone else will have to answer that one. I know they also something called a pull through procedure, but as far as I know there is no pouch with that.

[spunkylady]

I am speaking of urine pouches.

[LindaAukett UOAA Advocacy]

What do they call the internal urine pouches where you live? We don't have any basis to know whether our names are different or not.

[spunkylady]

I can not believe I did not remember the type of pouch.. My papers say Indiana pouch.
Duhh???

I was just curious about the differnces in pouches.
Thanks

[squid56]

Most use the same segments of bowel ( the ileal cecal segment, plus small bowel/ileum), but mine happens to a version of an Indiana pouch in which they used my transverse colon. They did that because I ahd prior urinary surgeries that used the ileal cecal segment and they could not save it and reuse it.

[wolfva]

Indianna pouch? Guess you're asking Hoosier pouch then, eh?

/ducking