I have read, with high interest, the Jednak’s review article “The evolution of bladder augmentation: from creating reservoir to reconstituting an organ” (), where the literature regarding this subject has been carefully taken into consideration. Particularly, about the tissue engineering-based augmentation cystoplasty, the attention has been focused on the results reached by Atala and his group in patients suffering from end-stage myelomeningocele-induced poorly compliant/high pressure bladder ().
Nevertheless, such tissue engineered arrangement remains functionally conditioned by spinal cord neuropathy-due detrusor/urethral rhabdosphincter dyssynergia. Hence, in my opinion, it would be suitable, for these patients, to implant, after total cystectomy together with removal of the urethral rhabdosphincter, a tissue engineered neobladder–rhabdosphincter complex – quite not influenced by spinal cord neuropathy effects – provided with inside neobladder wall embedded tension micro-electro-sensors (correlatively to intra-neobladder pressure) with micro-loop antenna to send, beyond a properly adjustable wall tension value threshold, modulated wireless e-m signals toward a rhabdosphincterial receiver–converter micro-electro device to promote, in turn, by suitable e-m field generation, the rhabdosphincter relaxation simultaneously with the neobladder contraction. What should be quite reversible following the micturition-due intra-neobladder pressure drop below the arranged levels.
Bright advances in the scaffold fabrication, emerging from recent progress in the field of both nanotechnology and material science research – from different “smart” synthetic polymers to silk fibroin-based biomaterials – besides in stem-cell biology, could make feasible a suitable setting of micro-electro-sensors inside the mentioned bladder/rhabdosphincter tissue engineered complex (–).
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Summary
Keywords
neurogenic bladder, detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia, tissue engineering, pediatrics, urology
Citation
Alberti C (2014) A Foreseeable Tissue Engineering Approach to Overcome the Neurogenic Bladder-Related Detrusor/Urethral Rhabdosphincter Dyssynergia. Front. Pediatr. 2:122. doi: 10.3389/fped.2014.00122
Received
22 September 2014
Accepted
23 October 2014
Published
10 November 2014
Volume
2 - 2014
Edited by
Lisandro Ariel Piaggio, Universidad Nacional Del Sur, Argentina
Reviewed by
Germán Fernando Falke, Hospital Universitario Austral, Argentina
Copyright
© 2014 Alberti.
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