Pyeloplasty procedures include surgical sites on different sides of the body’s midsection. According to the area and type of damage of the kidney and the source of the urinary retention is how and where the surgical site is determined. The surgeon may determine that a tube may be inserted to remove the urine to release the pressure and this by itself will be sufficient. If this is the case you may have a tube such as a catheter placed in your bladder for several days and then be reassessed. Another area that becomes blocked is your ureters, the thin tubes that run the urine from your kidneys to your bladder. The doctor will place a thin tube called a stent into your ureters which would allow the urine passage out to the bladder. You may keep the stents in for several weeks and then our urologists would take them out in a ten minute office visit.

Pyeloplasty procedures may be simple or complex, that is why having the Columbia University Division of Urology, which has just been given the one of the top five urology departments in the US status, extend their division here, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, your pyeloplasty will be in the care of the only Ivy League Medicine in Florida.

Many things may cause the ureter or kidney to not work properly, sometimes the blood vessels are crimped or twisted and do not supply blood to the kidney, maybe the ureter has become twisted stopping the urine from leaving the bladder. In these cases the urologist needs to go in and correct the problem. Infections may swell up the ureter or kidney not allowing the fluid to flow out as it normally does, in this case antibiotics would help the infection and inflammation go away. As you can tell by now, it is contingent on our urologists to make a detailed diagnosis since not only are there many ways your uretero-pelvic junction (UPJ) may become backed up, but the future of your kidneys are at stake.

Pyeloplasty procedures may even include having a stent placed into your kidney and lead out of your back and collect in a bag that you can easily empty. After some weeks the stent will be removed and the tiny hole will seal up.