Bilateral Extravesical Ureteral Reimplantation In Toilet Trained Children: Is 1-Day Hospitalization Without Urinary Retention Possible?
Friday, 11 November 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - There has been debate regarding the complication of transient urinary retention in extravesical ureteroneocystostomy but it cannot be argued that it has a success rate comparable to the intravesical approach but with a morbidity.
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Choice Of Urine Collection Methods For The Diagnosis Of Urinary Tract Infection In Young, Febrile Infants
Thursday, 10 November 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - The optimal and most consistent method of urine collection in febrile infants is urethral catheterization.
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Reconstructive Lower Urinary Tract Surgery In Incontinent Adolescents With Exstrophy/Epispadias Complex
Tuesday, 08 November 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Long-term outcomes for the exstrophy/epspadias population are not only variable but also scant in the current literature.
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Maternal Progestin Intake And Risk Of Hypospadias
Thursday, 03 November 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Previous published studies have shown that maternal exposure to progestins during early pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of hypospadias.
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Circumcised Men Less Likely To Transmit Chlamydia Trachomatis
Thursday, 03 November 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Female sexual partners of circumcised men are less likely to contract Chlamydia trachomatis infections than are those of uncircumcised men, a multinational team of investigators report.
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Limitations Seen In Long-Term Survivors Of Childhood Cancer
Tuesday, 01 November 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Long-term survivors of childhood malignancies are at increased risk for limitations in physical performance and are likely to have difficulty with certain activities of daily living (ADL), new research suggests.
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Male Circumcision Protects Against HIV Infection
Thursday, 27 October 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Circumcising adult men reduces their risk of HIV infection, investigators in France and
South Africa report.
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Urine Collection Method In Febrile Infants Not Determined By Probability Of UTI
Thursday, 20 October 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has found the method a physician uses for collecting urine from febrile infants
may depend more on his or her age than on relevant clinical factors.
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Antibiotic Resistance Patterns In Children Hospitalized For Urinary Tract Infections
Monday, 17 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - There is limited information on bacterial resistance to commonly prescribed intravenous antibiotics or on the risk factors for increased resistance in children admitted to the hospital with urinary tract infections (UTIs).
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Addition Of Clonidine And Fentanyl: Comparison Between Three Different Regional Anesthetic Techniques In Circumcision
Friday, 14 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Regional anesthetics seem to be more effective than systemic opioids for alleviating postcircumcision pain.
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Impact Of Pretransplant Dialysis On Early Graft Function In Pediatric Kidney Recipients
Thursday, 13 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Fontana et al report on the impact of dialysis performed pretransplant on early kidney graft function.
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Consistency of Urodynamic Parameters in Children with Detrusor Instability: How Many Times Should the Bladder Be Filled?
Thursday, 13 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday.com) - Cyclical bladder views for voiding cystourethrograms are known to be helpful for establishing difficult diagnoses such as intermittent reflux.
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Recent Review Examines Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans In Boys
Wednesday, 12 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Balanitis Xerotica Obliterans (BXO) is a chronic dermatitis of unknown etiology that occurs on the penile skin.
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Ultrasound Plus Alpha-Fetoprotein Best For Neural Tube Defect Screening
Tuesday, 11 October 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Combining second-trimester ultrasonography with maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) screening is likely to detect more cases of neural tube defects (NTDs) than MSAFP alone, according to results of a retrospective study.
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Detection Of Polyomavirus BK And JC In Children With Kidney Diseases And Renal Transplant Recipients
Monday, 10 October 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Immunosuppression is one of the foundations of organ transplantation, although it has its own inherent problems such as susceptibility to infection.
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Pediatric Urology 
