Imaging and surgical utilization for pediatric cystinuria patients: A single-institution cohort study.

Objective: Although cystinuria is rare, its clinical manifestations are life-long. Little is known about healthcare utilization in this population.

Study Design: Through billing records and chart review, we identified pediatric patients with cystinuria treated at our institution.

Self-cathing experience journal: Enhancing the patient and family experience in clean intermittent catheterization.

Objective: This pilot study evaluated the safety, feasibility, and usefulness of the Self-Cathing Experience Journal (SC-EJ), an online resource for patients and families to address issues and stigma surrounding clean intermittent catheterization (CIC). Modeled after previous assessments of the Cardiac and Depression Experience Journals (EJs), this project uniquely included patients and caregivers. We explored whether patients and caregivers would find the SC-EJ helpful in increasing their understanding of CIC, accepting the medical benefits of self-catheterization, improving hopefulness, and diminishing social isolation.

Semen parameters in adolescents with varicocele: association with testis volume differential and total testis volume.

Purpose: We evaluated the relationship between testicular volume differential, total testis volume and total motile sperm count in adolescents with varicocele. Prior reports have been inconclusive regarding the association of testis volume with semen analysis parameters.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed a single institution database of Tanner 5 adolescents with nonoperated left varicocele with at least 1 semen analysis available.

Use of buccal mucosa grafts for urethral reconstruction in children: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: The use of buccal mucosa grafts (BMG) for urethral reconstruction has increased in popularity over the last several decades. Our aim was to describe our institutional experience with and outcomes after BMG urethroplasty.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of boys undergoing BMG urethral reconstruction.

Evaluation of a mobile voiding diary for pediatric patients with voiding dysfunction: a prospective comparative study.

Purpose: One potential strategy for improving voiding diary completion rates and data quality is use of a mobile electronic format. We evaluated the acceptability and feasibility of mobile voiding diaries for patients with nonneurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, and compared mobile and paper voiding diaries.

Materials And Methods: We prospectively enrolled children presenting with daytime symptoms of lower urinary tract dysfunction between July 2012 and April 2013.

Sensitivity to violence measured by ratings of severity increases after nonviolence training.

It was hypothesized that training in nonviolence would increase participants' sensitivity to violence because such training emphasizes both the harm and the avoidability of many kinds of violence. This research built upon earlier studies, which had proposed that ratings of the severity of violent behaviors (e.g.