It is important to continue bladder relaxing medication and antibiotics after surgery if prescribed by your doctor. Redness, swelling, drainage, fever or worsening pain at the incision. Bacteria may grow in the bladder after surgery, but antibiotics are avoided unless fever, pain, blood in the urine or new urinary leakage are present. Leakage may persist after surgery, which in some cases is temporary. Pain after surgery may mean blockage of the intestine, infection in the abdomen, blockage of a kidney or rupture of the bladder.
Rupture can happen a year or more after surgery and is an emergency.
The Mitrofanoff channel may become difficult to catheterize. If so, we may need to use special catheters or dilate the channel. If difficulty persists, further surgery may be necessary. Other long term problems. Very rarely, a tumor may develop in the bladder.