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Complications of one sort or another seem to afflict many of us in the recovery period from an RC. This article (from Europe) is not intended to make anyone fearful, but to educate so that potential complications can be minimized.
For example:
1. make sure you are at a high volume hospital
2. make sure your uro-onc does a lot of RCs per year
3. make sure the hospital is up to speed on post op care
4. when you suspect an issue, seek treatment earlier rather than later
For some reason the process of posting the link cut off the last part of the link so the above will not work. Please add after Lawrentschuk the following:
collab rev.pdf
Or hopefully when I click “submit post” this time the above link qwill actually copy as written.