Female Reconstructive Urologist Marisa Clifton explains the types of conditions she treats and why specialized care for certain female urologic and pelvic health conditions is important.
mhm. Yeah, mhm. So many urologists treat general urology, but there are very few sub specialist female urologists across the country. So many centers don't even have a female urologist on faculty. I not only do general urology, but I also specialize incontinence and prolapse and also participate in very complex reconstruction with a multidisciplinary team. Mm, no. So the complex reconstruction that we perform can include complex Vesco, vaginal fistulas or your reader, a vaginal fistulas or urethra vaginal fistulas. Additionally, we do urethral reconstructions when patients have urethral diverticular or other conditions such as mesh erosion, that requires a urethral reconstruction. Mm. The Women's Health Clinic is able to provide many different opportunities for evaluation and management of our patients. We have a very close relationship with our public for physical therapists. We are also able to perform complex euro dynamic studies to get the right diagnosis for our patients. And then, in addition, we have our upper tract reconstructive team to help with the very complex repairs. And this opportunity isn't available at a lot of institutions. So we're uniquely poised to take care of these patients that really do need our expert care. Mm. Yeah. So as urologists. We are responsible for dealing with very sensitive issues with our patients, and the therapeutic relationship that we build is so very important. And very frequently I'll have a patient referred to me for stress incontinence. But when I discuss the issues with them, I find out there's so much more going on. It may be recurrent urinary tract infections or blood that they've seen in the urine or a history of kidney stones. Or they may also have overactive bladder getting up at night, time to go to the bathroom. And I think as urologists, especially female urologists, were trained to discuss that history so that we can kind of unveil some of the issues that are really affecting our patients. And so that's one of my favorite parts of being a female urologist is getting that relationship with the patient, letting them trust me? And we work together to find a a solution that fits well with their quality of life and improves it, but doesn't force them to participate in treatments that are maybe not so interesting to them. So I think that our urology department is able to handle complex urinary issues and not just one at a time type of service. Our department strives to engage all providers for quality care of our patients. And I would just encourage anyone interested to reach out and connect with our neurology department to help manage these patients that desperately need consistent in quality care. Mm. Okay, no.
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