Urotherapy in children with dysfunctional voiding and the responsiveness of two condition-specific questionnaires.

Aims: We sought to establish the responsiveness of the Dutch Vancouver Symptom Score for Dysfunctional Elimination Syndrome (VSSDES) and Pediatric urinary incontinence Quality of life (PinQ) questionnaires. Secondary, we evaluated the outcome of urotherapy extended for children with dysfunctional voiding (DV).

Methods: This cross-sectional multicenter study was done in one tertiary and two community hospitals.

Vancouver Symptom Score for Dysfunctional Elimination Syndrome: Reliability and Validity of the Dutch Version.

Purpose: We sought to establish the reliability and validity of the Dutch version of the Vancouver Symptom Score for Dysfunctional Elimination Syndrome for children with dysfunctional voiding and their parents.

Materials And Methods: For this cross-sectional multicenter study the Vancouver Symptom Score for Dysfunctional Elimination Syndrome was translated and cross-culturally adapted to Dutch following a standardized process. Patients 16 years or younger with dysfunctional voiding and their parents were recruited at pediatric, pediatric urology and pelvic floor physical therapy outpatient clinics.

[A boy with Churg-Strauss syndrome and thrombosis associated with eosinophilia].

A 13-year-old boy, recently diagnosed as having Churg-Strauss syndrome, presented with a thrombus at the level of the aortic bifurcation. Echocardiography revealed a left-ventricular thrombus as well. He was treated by means of surgical thrombectomy, corticosteroids, heparinisation and a coumarine derivative.