Intravesical knotting of feeding tube used as urinary catheter in an infant

Abstract

Mamatha Basavaraju, Ninan Zachariah, Ramya Radhakrishnan

Infant feeding tube is commonly used to temporarily drain the bladder in pediatric population. A case is described where the tube got knotted inside the bladder probably due to over insertion or bladder spasm caused by irritation of catheter.