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  2. Indiana pouch - Wikipedia

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    An Indiana pouch is a surgically-created urinary diversion used to create a way for the body to store and eliminate urine for patients who have had their urinary bladders removed as a result of bladder cancer, pelvic exenteration, bladder exstrophy or who are not continent due to a congenital, neurogenic bladder.

  3. Multiple system atrophy - Wikipedia

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    The average lifespan after the onset of symptoms in patients with MSA is 6–10 years. [3] Approximately 60% of patients require a wheelchair within five years of onset of the motor symptoms, and few patients survive beyond 12 years. [3] The disease progresses without remission at a variable rate.

  4. Urinary diversion - Wikipedia

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    Urinary diversion is a surgical technique used to create a new pathway for urine to exit the body, often following the removal of the bladder as part of treatment for bladder cancer. [1] In addition to bladder cancer, urinary diversion may be necessary in cases of severe trauma, congenital abnormalities, or other conditions that compromise the ...

  5. Ureterovaginal fistula - Wikipedia

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    If the fistula cannot be repaired, the clinician may create a permanent diversion of urine or urostomy. [6] Risks associated with the repair of the fistula are also associated with most other surgical procedures and include the risk of adhesions, disorders of wound healing, infection, ileus, and immobilization. There is a recurrence rate of 5% ...

  6. Hemicorporectomy - Wikipedia

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    This removes the legs, the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a major procedure recommended only as a last resort for people with severe and potentially fatal illnesses such as osteomyelitis , tumors , severe traumas and intractable decubiti in, or around, the pelvis . [ 3 ]

  7. How Long You Were Expected to Live the Year You Were Born

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    1940. Overall life expectancy: 62.9 Women: 65.2 Men: 60.8 The United States began the ’40s on an upswing, with life expectancy up sharply from 58.5 years in 1936, when the nation was still ...

  8. Cystectomy - Wikipedia

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    A partial cystectomy involves removal of only a portion of the bladder and is performed for some benign and malignant tumors localized to the bladder. [9] Individuals that may be candidates for partial cystectomy include those with single tumors located near the dome, or top, of the bladder, tumors that do not invade the muscle of the bladder, tumors located within bladder diverticulum, or ...

  9. Ureterosigmoidostomy - Wikipedia

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    Patients with ureterosigmoidostomy have a 100 times greater chance of developing carcinoma of the colon after living with the modification for a number of years (an average of 20–30 years after the operation), 24% of patients go on to develop carcinoma of the bowel. [1]