Lucky Gupta, Vikas
Abstract Infant feeding tubes (IFTs) are extensively used as urethral stents for bladder drainage in neonates and infants following urological interventions. Although IFTs as stents are generally considered safe, rare complications such as spontaneous intra-vesical knotting have been documented in the literature. Most reports describe knotting during routine catheterisation. Such knotting presents considerable difficulty during removal and may necessitate invasive interventions, thereby increasing patient morbidity. Awareness of this complication, adherence to proper insertion techniques and implementation of preventive measures are essential to mitigate such events and are successfully managed by supra-pubic cystostomy.