Publications by authors named "Roberto Castera"
Purpose: We used (99m)technetium dimercapto-succinic acid scans in infants to determine the relation between renal deformities and severity of primary dilating reflux. We also used videourodynamics to analyze the association between detrusor pressure at onset of reflux and degree of renal changes.
Materials And Methods: A total of 20 patients (15 males) 0.
Purpose: We investigated bladder function on videourodynamic studies in infants with severe primary vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) and analyzed the relationship between VUR and intravesical detrusor pressure during the micturition cycle.
Materials And Methods: From 1999 to 2001, 3 female and 9 male infants with a median age of 9 months with VUR underwent conventional filling videourodynamics at our institution. Four cases were diagnosed by prenatal detection and 8 were diagnosed after symptomatic urinary tract infections.
Purpose: Preoperative prediction of urinary continence in patients with myelodysplasia requiring augmentation cystoplasty is uncertain. To determine reliable factors to predict postoperative urinary continence, we retrospectively analyzed preoperative videourodynamic parameters and urinary continence outcome in a group of patients with myelodysplasia who underwent augmentation ileocystoplasty.
Materials And Methods: Of 75 patients with myelodysplasia with neurogenic bladder dysfunction refractory to conservative management (anticholinergic drugs and clean intermittent catheterization) who underwent augmentation cystoplasty as a single procedure we selected 14 girls and 12 boys without previous vesicostomy drainage and with preoperative and postoperative videourodynamic studies in whom detubularized ileocystoplasty was performed.