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Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind)

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  1. 01

    Who gets a temporary implant

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 1: Who gets a temporary implant. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • 25 to 75 g and no obstructing median lobe, in a man who wants ejaculation kept and will accept a week with a device in.
    • Consent covers a week of urgency and blood, a second visit to remove it, retention, infection and migration.
  2. 02

    The device and the limits

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 2: The device and the limits. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • Gel or light sedation, antibiotics, a cystoscope.
    • Nothing is cut and nothing is burnt.
    • The veru is the distal limit; the bladder neck and the anterior commissure are the targets.
  3. 03

    Opened, then drawn back

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 3: Opened, then drawn back. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • The folded device is opened inside the bladder, clear of the trigone and both orifices, then drawn back through the neck so the three struts open against the prostatic urethra at twelve, five and seven.
  4. 04

    The leaflet and the last look

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 4: The leaflet and the last look. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • The anchoring leaflet is turned to six o'clock under the bladder neck.
    • The last look confirms the device wholly proximal to the veru, nothing across the sphincter, and the retrieval suture lying free.
  5. 05

    Five to seven days

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 5: Five to seven days. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • Home the same day with the suture out at the meatus, on antibiotics and an anti-inflammatory.
    • The struts press; the mucosa blanches and then the tissue under each strut dies in a line.
    • The week is uncomfortable and that is expected.
  6. 06

    Removal

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 6: Removal. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • Day five to seven, no anaesthetic: gel, a retrieval catheter over the suture, and the struts fold back as they are pulled.
    • The device is checked against what went in: three struts and the leaflet.
    • He voids before he leaves.
  7. 07

    What it leaves behind

    Temporarily implanted nitinol device (iTind). Step 7: What it leaves behind. Captured frame from the interactive animation.
    • Three incisions made by pressure, from the neck into the anterior fossa.
    • The lobes are untouched and the neck muscle, urethra and sphincter are intact, which is why ejaculation is usually kept.
    • The effect is smaller than a resection.

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