Who is more likely to get bladder spasms after surgery?
I have not been able to get any clear answers to this question. By looking at comments on this blog, bladder spasms seem very much split evenly between boys and girls. The nurses opinion The hospital nurses I talked to said most children experience bladder spasms to various degrees. I did not get the impression my daughter’s case was exceptional in any way. The nurses said that the older the girl, the more painful bladder spasms are. The anesthetist opinion Our anesthetist said 5% of all children do get bladder spasms after ureteral re-implantation, and in girls aged between 6 and 12, 10% of them do. A Spanish language website I consulted puts the figure between 10% and 27.5% depending on the ureteral reimplantation technique used (the document is in Spanish and in pdf). The doctor’s opinion Our doctor thought it was unusual for my daughter starting having bladder spasms 2 days after the operation and that they should not last long. The nephrologist’s opinion It was very rare that blad
