Our experience with management of congenital urological pathologies in adulthood: What pediatric urologists should know and adult urologists adopt in pediatric practice experience.

Purpose: To summarize our experience in the management of congenital anomalies in the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT) in adults.

Materials And Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of all adult patients who underwent primary surgical intervention for CAKUT between 1998 and 2021.

Results: The study included 102 patients with a median age of 25 (interquartile range, 23-36.

Proximal Urethrostomy Versus Urethroplasty for Complex Urethral Strictures.

Background: The optimal treatment for complex urethral stricture (CUS) is yet to be determined. Comparisons of methods based on validated questionnaires or objective outcome measures are lacking.

Objective: To compare proximal urethrostomy and urethroplasty for CUS using objective measures and validated questionnaires, and to evaluate trends in subgroups of patients who underwent proximal urethrostomy as the intended definitive treatment versus first-stage urethroplasty.

Objective and subjective sexual outcomes in adult patients after hypospadias repair performed in childhood.

Purpose: We evaluated sexual function and psychosexual adjustment in adults who underwent hypospadias repair in childhood.

Materials And Methods: After receiving institutional review board approval, 119 of 449 adult patients (26.6%) who underwent hypospadias repair between 1978 and 1993 responded to questionnaires on penile appearance and sexual life.

Why I cannot find the prostate? Behind the subjectivity of rectal exam.

Background. Most physicians use digital rectal examination (DRE) to help detect prostate cancer and to estimate the prostates' size. The accuracy of DRE is known to be limited.

Surgical outcome of different types of primary hypospadias repair during three decades in a single center.

Objective: To evaluate the surgical outcome of different techniques of primary hypospadias repair in a single department.

Methods: We retrospectively evaluated the medical files of all patients who had undergone primary hypospadias repair at our department during the past 3 decades (1978-2009).

Results: A total of 820 patients were divided into 3 groups.

Outcome of hypospadias repair in toilet-trained children and adolescents.

Purpose: To review a leading causes and surgical outcome of hypospadias repair in toilet-trained children and adolescents in our department.

Materials And Methods: Over the period from 1987 to 2010, 84 toilet-trained children and adolescents with a median age of 13 years (range 4-18) underwent hypospadias repair. Voiding symptoms were a cause for referral in 31(36%) patients, difficulties in self-appraisal or patient desire in 49(55.

Management of urogenital trauma: state of the art.

Purpose Of Review: The field of urogenital trauma is undergoing constant improvement mainly due to better diagnostic tools, a shift toward standardized treatments and better trauma care. The purpose of this review is to summarize the most relevant studies published within the last 3 years on the subject.

Recent Findings: Computerized tomography grading of renal trauma is an excellent predictor of the need for surgery and the final renal outcome in these patients, as most patients can be treated conservatively.

Laparoscopic single site surgery: initial experience and description of techniques in the pediatric population.

Purpose: Recently new approaches to laparoscopic surgery, named natural orifice transluminal endoscopy and laparoendoscopic single site surgery, have been proposed to improve the cosmesis and decrease the morbidity associated with multiple ports sites. Experience with laparoendoscopic single site surgery technique in pediatric urology is still limited. We present our initial results with this technique in children.

Endoscopic bulking materials for the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux: a review of our 20 years of experience and review of the literature.

Purpose. We reviewed our 20 years of experience and the current literature regarding the long-term outcome of endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteric reflux (VUR) using the different tissue bulking substances with a special emphasis on the long-term efficacy. Material and Methods.

Endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteral reflux in an adult population: Can we teach our adult urology colleagues?

Objective: Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is not well described or understood in adults. Since endoscopic correction of VUR has become a first-line therapy in children, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of this technique in adult patients.

Patients And Methods: In 1988-2008, 49 adult patients (6 males, 43 females) with a mean age of 33.

Outcome of pediatric hypospadias repair in adulthood.

Purpose: To review the evolution of the technique of hypospadias repair.

Methods: A search of Pubmed, Medline and the Journal of Pediatric Urology was performed, and papers dealing with surgical techniques for hypospadias repair were critally reviewed. Special emphasis was given to papers on the effects in the long term of hypospadias repair on voiding and sexual dysfunction.

Transperitoneal laparoscopic radical nephrectomy is an effective procedure for large (more than 7 cm) renal masses.

Purpose: We aimed to evaluate our experience with the transperitoneal radical nephrectomy (TLRN) in patients with large (more than 7 cm) renal mass to determine if this procedure can be recommended as a reference standard for treating large renal masses.

Patients And Methods: Of 213 patients who underwent TLRN in both institutions we have reviewed medical files of 35 who had large than 7 cm renal masses. Operative time, blood loss, conversion rate, pathologic tumor type, and oncologic outcome were evaluated.

Bladder neck closure in children: a decade of followup.

Purpose: Bladder neck closure necessitates lifelong clean intermittent catheterization. Concerns have been raised regarding well-being and compliance in patients on long-term clean intermittent catheterization. Noncompliance may result in subsequent hydronephrosis, incontinence, infection, cystolithiasis and perforation.

Renal scarring and urinary tract infection after successful endoscopic correction of vesicoureteral reflux.

Purpose: We evaluated renal function and the incidence of urinary tract infection after successful endoscopic correction of vesicoureteral reflux.

Materials And Methods: From 1988 to 2007, 169 male and 338 female patients (696 refluxing renal units) with a median age of 3.7 years underwent successful endoscopic correction of primary vesicoureteral reflux using polytetrafluoroethylene and dextranomer/hyaluronic acid copolymer.

Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in prepubertal children: 22-year experience at a single institution with a single lithotriptor.

Purpose: The sophistication of percutaneous nephrolithotomy and ureteroscopy challenges the efficacy of ESWL for urolithiasis in prepubertal patients. We evaluated our long-term experience with ESWL in these patients and determined its efficiency.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of all prepubertal patients who underwent ESWL.

Superiority of the VQZ over the tubularized skin flap and the umbilicus for continent abdominal stoma in children.

Purpose: Stricture prevention, avoiding exposed mucosa and cosmesis are important considerations when constructing continent abdominal stomas. We analyzed our results of continent abdominal stomas using the umbilicus and 2 types of lower abdominal stomas, that is the V-quadrilateral-Z technique and the tubular skin flap.

Materials And Methods: Patient charts were reviewed retrospectively.

Unilateral vesicoureteral reflux and history of contralateral vesicoureteral reflux warranting routine bilateral endoscopic correction.

Purpose: It has been shown that the incidence of de novo vesicoureteral reflux following unilateral endoscopic correction is low and does not justify prophylactic injection into the nonrefluxing ureter. We analyzed whether we should routinely treat each ureter in patients with a history of bilateral vesicoureteral reflux in whom reflux previously disappeared spontaneously on 1 side.

Materials And Methods: Between 1991 and 2005, 458 children underwent endoscopic correction of unilateral vesicoureteral reflux.

Long-term follow up of antenatally diagnosed megaureters.

Aim: We have retrospectively evaluated our 17 years of experience with antenatal diagnosis of hydronephrosis that led to postnatal diagnosis of megaureter, and tried to determine criteria for surgery.

Patients And Methods: Seventy-nine children (64 boys and 15 girls) with antenatal diagnosis of hydronephrosis that led to postnatal diagnosis of megaureter were followed conservatively over a period of 18 years (1988-2006). Right ureterohydronephrosis was seen in 23 children, left in 30 and 26 had bilateral ureterohydronephrosis comprising a total of 105 renal units (RU).

Urethroplasty, by perineal approach, for bulbar and membranous urethral strictures in children and adolescents.

Objectives: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of urethroplasty for bulbar and membranous urethral strictures using the perineal approach in children and adolescents. Urethroplasty by the perineal approach is considered the best treatment for bulbar and membranous urethral strictures in adults. It is not as clear whether this also holds true in children, because the published data addressing this question are scant.

Fibroepithelial polyp of the bladder neck in children.

Benign fibroepithelial polyps of the prostatic urethra and bladder are rare congenital lesions most commonly diagnosed in the paediatric population because of diverse urinary symptoms. We report two such cases: one, in a 2-year-old boy who presented with haematuria and voiding difficulties and the other in a 5-year-old boy with acute urinary retention. Imaging and endoscopic studies confirmed the presence of polypoid lesions.

Treatment of nocturnal enuresis in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Purpose: Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder disproportionately experience voiding dysfunction and persistent nocturnal enuresis due to a combination of sphincter and detrusor overactivity and nocturnal polyuria. The different treatment approaches to nocturnal enuresis often fail in these patients. Therefore, we performed a prospective study to compare the efficacy of combination therapy with desmopressin and oxybutynin vs the tricyclic antidepressant imipramine in patients with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder who have nocturnal enuresis.

Penile compartment syndrome: a possible explanation for penile pain in peyronie disease shown by penile sonography.

Objective: Our purpose was to describe sonographic findings in patients with Peyronie disease that may explain persistent penile pain in these patients. We propose the term penile compartment syndrome for use in radiology and urology practice to describe this condition.

Methods: Thirty-five consecutive patients were examined.

Postoperative thrombocytosis as a marker for complications after urologic surgery.

Objective: To determine whether thrombocytosis after urologic surgery is a random phenomenon or if it is related to postoperative complications.

Material And Methods: We evaluated the postoperative course of patients who had a normal platelet count before surgery and developed significant thrombocytosis (platelet count> 500 x 10(9)/l) after surgery during the years 1991-2003. The rate of postoperative complications was compared among patients who did and did not develop thrombocytosis for the three commonest surgical procedures associated with the condition (radical cystectomy, percutaneous nephrolithotripsy and nephrectomy).