Can childbearing spinal cord injury women with continent cutaneous urinary diversion have child?

Abstract

Over the last half century, significant improvements in health outcomes for individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI) and growing recognition those women with SCI can become pregnant. However, pregnancy must be rated as high risk and requires multidisciplinary medical care as higher rate of complication compare to general population. Most of published literature grouped all patients with lower urinary tract reconstruction (LUTR) like exstrophy–epispadias complex, spina bifida, interstitial cystitis urogenital sinus or fistula, but our article is focusing in the childbearing SCI women who undergone cutaneous continent urinary diversion (CCUD) with mitrofanoff procedure. We report two cases of three successful pregnancies in this population.