Emergency room visits and readmissions after pediatric urologic surgery.

Objective: Reducing readmissions has become a focal point to increase quality of care while reducing costs. We report all-cause unplanned return visits following urologic surgery in children at our institution.

Materials And Methods: Children undergoing urology procedures with returns within 30 days of surgery were identified.

Urological manifestations of Down syndrome.

Purpose: We identified the urological anomalies seen in patients with Down syndrome.

Materials And Methods: We reviewed the literature on Down syndrome and its associated genitourinary pathology.

Results: Associated defects have been reported throughout the genitourinary tract.

Antenatal intervention: jeopardizing life or limb?

The association of limb loss with antenatal urologic intervention has recently been questioned. At present, no such cases have been reported. We present a case of antenatal vesicoamniotic shunting for posterior urethral valves in which the shunt entered the right lower extremity and coursed subcutaneously over the femoral triangle and inguinal canal and into the bladder.