necrosis in ileal conduit

He did look all inside and did the debriding to rid it of the dead tissue. It appears to have picked up color today which is a great sign and still put out the urine w/o any problems. I have to put a catheter into the stoma 2 xs each day. The home nurse came today and agreed it looks MUCH better. Being a big person is always complicated medically. this wouldn't seem different. We will see the doctor again on Monday to see how things are doing. The stoma was not necrotic all the way inside or so it didn't seem so.

Did he do all the things it said in the article like looking all in the stoma to determine the extent of necrosis? Hopefully, it's just a little bit but you'd certainly want to be sure.

I think you mentioned before that he's a pretty big guy. Looks like that can complicate matters when doing a stoma.

What does the doc think now that he's looked at it?

Mike

thanks, Mike, I had read that during some of my research. Things seem to be looking better today since the surgeon did some debriding of the stoma. Jim's stoma due to his body habitus has been challenging from the beginning. His is a "big boy" and that mmakes it more of a challenge. Thanks again

Here is more info about various complication possibilities from a stoma. Best to have the info....
Stoma complications

jimswife..thats an early complication and
Stomal necrosis - poor blood supply to the stoma requiring re operation

Do you have faith in this uro?
pat

Hi, I am fairly new to this forum and have found some great assistance with some of my questions. My husband had a davinci robotic RC/Prostatectomy on Aug 12th and has done very well with his surgery. Don't need to tell all of you how HUGE that surgery is. He has done so well that he will start cisplatin next week using the USC protocol and things are moving forward. However, one issue, he has some necrosis of his ileal conduit and it is requiring me to do a digital dilation each day. I don't mind doing this but am open to ideas and input on this most important issue. Went to the surgeon last this week and will return this Monday I suspect for some more debriding of this tissue. Anything from anyone? Thanks in advance