Pediatrics

Tubularized urethras can be engineered from autologous cells and used successfully in the reconstruction of complex posterior urethral defects in children to maintain function long-term.

Continuing progress in the area of tissue engineering holds the greatest potential impact, not just in pediatric urology or even the entire specialty, but for medicine and society as a whole.

The first-ever nationwide survey of antibiotic use in children with urinary tract infections found that the use of third-generation cephalosporins more than doubled between 1998 and 2007.

Children who undergo a double hydrodistention-implantation technique injection with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid for primary vesicoureteral reflux are at low risk for recurrence.

Today, pediatric urology remains on the frontier of medicine, leading the way in tissue engineering and antenatal surgery, and many more innovations are sure to follow.

New data confirm earlier findings that hydrodistention-implantation technique is more effective than subureteric transurethral injection of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid for the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux in children.

An experimental scoring system has identified several key risk factors associated with the potential for renal damage and surgical intervention in vesicoureteral reflux.

The role of nurse practitioners in pediatric urology is growing. With the increasing work force shortage in pediatric urology and urology in general-it has to.

Denervating the kidney to ease the pain associated with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease shows promising success in early trials.

Many providers try to treat VUR on their own. And fewer than half are aware of the use of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid to treat VUR in children.

For practicing urologists, triaging genitourinary care for children can be more difficult than it is for adults, but it doesn't have to be. Clear and concise GU diagnosis and treatment should help maximize overall care.

It is, in my opinion, truly amazing how far we have come concerning hypospadias repair.

Pediatric urology is moving fast, bringing developments that will also change not just adult urology, but the practice of medicine as well.

AUA has formed a task force to create a pool of qualified surgeons who will teach and perform male circumcision to help prevent the spread of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa.

In children who show signs of readiness, toilet training is best initiated between the ages of 27 and 32 months.

A simple alteration in how detrusor leak point pressure (DLPP) is measured in patients with neurogenic bladder may result in a more accurate assessment of a patient's potential risk for renal injury.

For the past 9 years, a steady increase in the number of children being diagnosed with urolithiasis has been accompanied by an equally steady increase in the ratio of those children undergoing surgery for the condition.

An analgesic spray was used in 60 children scheduled to undergo lysis of glanular adhesions, lysis of labial adhesions, or excision of glanular skin bridges, and worked about 30 minutes faster than analgesic cream.

A new study challenges what many urologists may feel is understood-that augmentation serves as an independent risk factor for malignancy in young patients with inherent congenital bladder anomalies.

The absence of guidelines for appropriate management of stones in children is clearly a major problem that has resulted in great variability.

Researchers enumerate the benefits of LESS as improved cosmesis, reduction in iatrogenic bowel injury, reduced risk of visceral and vascular injuries associated with port placement, lower risk of wound infections and incisional hernias, and possible cost reductions derived from the use of a single port.

Testicular sperm extraction can be successfully performed in adolescents with Klinefelter's syndrome.

Physician attitudes, actions at odds over preserving fertility in adolescent men with cancer.

Pediatric urologists have confirmed that environmental pollutants can impair male sexual development and fertility and that reinnervation of the bladder after spinal cord injury may be within reach.

In the office and the operating room, urologists are finding an array of more palatable approaches to managing pediatric cases.