Spontaneous intravesical knotting of urethral catheter in an infant: a rare case

Abstract

Urinary catheterization is utilized in the pediatric age group for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, such as urine sample collection, monitoring of fluid therapy, clean intermittent catheterization, voiding cystourethrogram. The procedure although safe, is not free of complications, it carries with it range of complications from minor like bleeding, infection to major like perforation and rarely spontaneous catheter knot.1 We report a case of intravesical spontaneous knotting of infant feeding tube in an infant, which is rare complication of urinary catheterization treated successfully by minimal invasive technique.