Dr. Rosalia Misseri on using long-term data to enhance pediatric urologic care

In this interview, Rosalia Misseri, MD, FAAP, highlights ongoing efforts to enhance quality of life for pediatric patinets with urologic diseases through long-term data. Misseri is the chief of pediatric urology at Riley Children’s Health at Indiana University Health in Indianapolis.

Video Transcript:

I think we're doing some incredible work here looking at the long-term outcomes of different pediatric urologic diseases, and using that information to bring it back to the newborn and work with optimizing care from the minute the child is born. We have incredible data based on long-term follow up that help us understand what the right therapy is for kids, primarily kids with neurologic diseases like spina bifida, where there's a lot of focus on protecting their kidneys and optimizing the function of their bladder. But also, what we're learning is how important continence is to people with diseases that cause them to be incontinent and trying to optimize the appropriate time to intervene. How do we decide how important incontinence is to the child? How do we decide how important incontinence is to the family and how it affects their day to day life?

This transcription has been edited for clarity.