IMPLANTABLE ELECTRICAL VESICAL STIMULATOR - REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND REPORT OF A SUCCESSFUL CASE

  • 1 January 1966
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 95  (22) , 1128-+
Abstract
Two types of electrical bladder stimulation were attempted in dogs and in humans: stimulation of nervi erigentes and direct stimulation of the detrusor urinae muscle. A vesical stimulator, built on a new electronic principle, was implanted successfully in a paraplegic patient with a complete post-traumatic lower motor neuron lesion. The stimulator worked satisfactorily. This stimulator could eventually be used in purely sensory sacral lesions, in well-selected incomplete lower motor neuron lesions, and in flaccid detrusors of the myogenic type.