Experience with the use of an intravesical hydrostatic pressure balloon.

Treatment with the use of an intravesical hydrostatic pressure balloon has been undertaken on 34 occasions in 24 patients. The procedure can be of great benefit in seriously ill patients with intractable hemorrhage of the bladder in whom alternative treatment methods either have failed or are too great a risk to attempt. It can also provide a useful treatment adjunct in the management of patients with massive low grade, noninvasive tumors of the bladder in whom endoscopic resection is not technically possible.