Renal Transplants Due to Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Tract (CAKUT) Have Better Graft Survival Than Non-CAKUT Controls: Analysis of Over 10,000 Patients.

Objective: To determine whether graft survival for patients with congenital anomalies of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) is impaired compared to non-CAKUT counterparts.

Methods: The United States Renal Data System (USRDS) is a national data system that has collected information about end stage renal disease (ESRD) and renal transplantation since 1995. We identified 10,635 first-time renal transplant patients with ESRD attributed to a CAKUT diagnosis transplanted between 1995 and 2018, with follow-up of 7.

New-onset ESRD secondary to reflux nephropathy has decreased in incidence in the United States.

Introduction And Objective: Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) has been associated with the development and progression of reflux nephropathy (RN). Management of VUR has become more conservative over time as therapies have not been reliably proven to prevent renal scarring. We sought to examine the incidence of end stage renal disease (ESRD) due to RN over recent decades in the United States.

Robotic conversion of cecostomy tube to catheterizable antegrade continence enema (ACE): Surgical technique.

Introduction: Antegrade continence enema (ACE) is a well described treatment for pediatric patients with neurogenic bowel refractory to medical and retrograde management. ACE can be carried out either by catheterizable channel with enteric conduit or a cecostomy tube appliance. For those patients who have issues with pain or leakage around the cecostomy appliance or wish to be appliance free, we present our initial results and description of a novel technique of laparoscopic conversion of cecostomy to catheterizable ACE which uses the existing tract and requires no enteric conduit.

Prenatal vesico-allantoic cyst outcome - a spectrum from patent urachus to bladder exstrophy.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to assess the prognostic significance of a cystic vesico-allantoic communication discovered on prenatal ultrasound in terms of its effect on the developing urinary tract.

Methods: Multi-institution review of prenatal screening ultrasound was performed between 2004 and 2015 to identify cases of in utero communication between the fetal urinary bladder and a cystic dilatation of the umbilical cord. Gestational age at diagnosis, perinatal evolution, and eventual urinary tract outcome are described and compared with existing literature.