Contemporary Review Details Indications and Results of a Modern Series of Ureterocalicostomies
Tuesday, 22 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Ureterocalicostomy is a well-established treatment for patients with complicated ureteropelvic junction obstruction (UPJ).
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Egyptian Report on Risk Factors for Surgical Complications in Live-Donor Pediatric and Adolescent Renal Transplantation
Monday, 14 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Surgical complications represent the most common difficulties after pediatric renal transplantation and may be associated with the greatest morbidity.
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Symptomatic Refluxing Distal Ureteral Stumps After Nephroureterectomy and Heminephroureterectomy. What Should We Do?
Wednesday, 09 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Debate has existed for some time in the pediatric literature as to the appropriate management of the distal refluxing ureter during nephroureterectomy and heminephroureterectomy for a nonfunctioning moiety.
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Symptomatic Refluxing Distal Ureteral Stumps After Nephroureterectomy and Heminephroureterectomy. What Should We Do?
Wednesday, 09 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Debate has existed for some time in the pediatric literature as to the appropriate management of the distal refluxing ureter during nephroureterectomy and heminephroureterectomy for a nonfunctioning moiety.
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Choice of Suture Material Does Not Affect Complication Rates in Flap Urethroplasties Used in Hypospadias Repair
Tuesday, 08 February 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Experts continue to debate effects of suture materials on urethroplasty complications.
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Circumcision Decreases Risk of HIV But Not Other STIs
Wednesday, 26 January 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even though male circumcision seems to reduce the incidence of HIV, the procedure appears to have no effect on susceptibility to other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), the results of a study conducted in Uganda suggests.
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Bladder Ultrasound Before Catheterization Useful in Young Children
Tuesday, 25 January 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The results of a study published in the January issue of Pediatrics suggest that rapid bedside ultrasound of the bladder can increase the success rate of urethral catheterization in children younger than 2 years.
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Incidence and Management of Symptomatic Refluxing Distal Ureteral Remnants in Children Who Had Nephroureterectomy and Heminephroureterectomy
Wednesday, 19 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - The usual treatment for vesicoureteral reflux into a poorly functioning kidney consists of nephrectomy with a partial or total ureterectomy.
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Changing Practice Patterns in Pediatric Pyeloplasty from 1988 to 2000
Monday, 17 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Nelson and colleagues from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI and Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD describe the evolution of practice patterns in the treatment of pediatric ureteropelvic junction obstruction.
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Hypnosis Relieves Distress of Voiding Cystourethrograms in Children
Wednesday, 05 January 2005
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hypnosis can relieve the distress of voiding cystourethrograms (VCUG) in children, a California-based team reports in the January 2005 issue of Pediatrics.
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Review of Stone Formation among Pediatric Renal Transplant Recipients Illuminates Risk Factors and Higher than Expected Incidence
Monday, 03 January 2005
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - The incidence of urolithiasis in adult kidney transplant (KTx) patients ranges from between 0.2% and 6.3% and has been associated with metabolic disturbances, urinary tract obstruction, infection and retention of suture material.
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Early Treatment of Varicocele may Preserve Fertility
Tuesday, 07 December 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Varicocelectomy performed during adolescence seems to preserve fertility and testicular growth, physicians in New York report.
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Youthful Hypertension May Point to Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease
Wednesday, 01 December 2004
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Compared to other young adults, those with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) are significantly more likely to be hypertensive, researchers report in the American Journal of Hypertension.
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Debate About the Cost-Utility and the Advisability of Neonatal Circumcision Rages On: A Recent Review and Subsequent Editorial
Monday, 29 November 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Neonatal male circumcision represents the most commonly performed procedure on children in the United States.
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Debate About the Cost-Utility and the Advisability of Neonatal Circumcision Rages On: A Recent Review and Subsequent Editorial
Monday, 29 November 2004
BERKELEY, CA (UroToday Inc.) - Neonatal male circumcision represents the most commonly performed procedure on children in the United States.
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