HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY-OF-LIFE AFTER URINARY-DIVERSION - CONTINENT DIVERSION WITH THE KOCK POUCH COMPARED WITH ILEAL CONDUIT - A QUESTIONNAIRE STUDY

A questionnaire study was carried out to compare the health-related qu ality of life after continent urinary diversion using a Kock pouch wit h that following ileal conduit diversion. 76 patients completed the qu estionnaire: 26 patients had a continent and 50 an ileal conduit diver sion, median follow-up was 0.9 year (range 0.5-4.4) and 4.9 years (ran ge 2.4-14.7), respectively. The type of operation carried significant relation to the presence of leakage distress associated with urine lea kage; 78 % among conduit patients versus 50 % among continent diversio n patients experienced distress. Physical contact between patient and partner was reduced significantly less following continent diversion: 16 % against 43 % among patients with conduit diversion. Global satisf action with life was high and similar in the two groups. Continent uri nary diversion appears to be superior to conventional ileal conduit di version.