Urological outcome with the use of salvage continent vesicostomy in pediatric reconstructive surgery. A single tertiary center experience.

Purpose: To report our experience and results in terms of complications, reoperation rate and urinary continence with the Salvage Continent Vesicostomy (SCV) technique in pediatric patients with history or need of enterocystoplasty and absent appendix.

Methods: Retrospective review of all patients with a history of a continent catheterizable channel surgery performed in our institution between June 2016 and January 2022. Only patients with a SCV surgery with a minimum 6-month post operative follow up were included in this cohort and divided in group 1 (history of previous bladder augmentation) and group 2 (simultaneous bladder augmentation and SCV).

"Epstein-Barr virus associated smooth muscle tumour as an unusual cause of ureteric graft obstruction in a child".

Background: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a DNA virus with oncogenic potential, especially in immunocompromised patients. EBV can promote smooth muscle proliferation, resulting in EBV-associated smooth muscle tumors (EBV-SMT).

Methods: We report a case of a 10-year-old child with end-stage renal disease secondary to hypoplastic crossed and fused kidneys who underwent kidney transplantation.

Laparoscopic Upper-pole Heminephrectomy for the Management of Duplex Kidney: Outcomes of a Multicenter Cohort.

Objective: To analyze the outcomes of patients undergoing upper-pole heminephrectomy surgery and to assess the different variables that may have an impact on outcome, specifically regarding morbidity and the need for further surgeries.

Materials And Methods: A retrospective study of patients who underwent laparoscopic upper-pole heminephrectomy for a nonfunctional moiety between August 2007 and December 2019 was conducted at 3 centers. A total of 130 patients met the inclusion criteria.

Simultaneous bilateral endoscopic surgery in a pediatric patient: Description of a NOVEL technique.

Introduction: Simultaneous bilateral endoscopic surgery (SBES) is the performance of a percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) on one side and a retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) on the other kidney simultaneously.

Objective: Our aim is to report through a video the surgical technique and the step-by-step details of a SBES performed in a pediatric patient.

Patients And Methods: A 12-year-old male patient with bilateral upper tract urolithiasis.

Bladder Volume Assessment in Pediatric Patients With Neurogenic Bladder: Is Ultrasound an Accurate Method?

Objective: To define the accuracy of ultrasound to determine bladder volume in pediatric patients with neurogenic bladder (NB).

Methods: Retrospective analysis of children with NB in treatment with urethral clean intermittent catheterization.

Exclusion Criteria: bladder surgeries, and catheterization through a channel different than urethra.

Pediatric Urodynamic Study Without a Preprocedural Urine Culture, Is It Safe in Clinical Practice?

Objective: To prove that incidence of UTI after a pediatric urodynamic study (UDS) is low, and that patients without urine culture (UC) analysis prior to a UDS will not have a significant increase in the incidence of UTI (post-UDS UTI).

Methods: Prospective cohort study including consecutive pediatric patients undergoing UDS in a single center for 1 year. Patients were divided in 2 groups: (G1) UDS with a previous negative UC and (G2) UDS without a previous UC analysis.

Laparoscopic Nephro-Sparing Surgery of a Reninoma Tumor in a Pediatric Patient.

Objetive: Reninoma, or juxtaglomerular cell tumor, is a benign neoplasm which causes severe hypertension with elevated plasma renin activity. Usually, it is well localized on computed tomography scan or magnetic resonance images, and complete resection of the tumor with renal function preservation is the optimal treatment. To describe the technique of a transperitoneal nephron-sparing laparoscopic surgery in a pediatric patient.