UOAA Discussion Board

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

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.

I am speaking of urine pouches.

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.

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

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.

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

/ducking