The article deals with the results of examination and nonoperative treatment of 120 children with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Their ages ranged from 3 to 13 years. The authors used a complex of methods for the examination of the functional condition of the kidneys, upper urinary tract (excretory urography, renoscintigraphy, electroureterography, clearance tests), lower urinary tract (cystography, cystoscopy, cystotonometry, urethroprofilometry, electromyography of the detrusor and its obturator apparatus), bacterio- and immunological studies (determination of the microbial number, bacteria covered with antibodies, immunoglobulins G, A, and M).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe results of ultrasound investigation of 24 pregnant women at pregnancy term of 22-39 weeks, who had a developmental anomaly of the urinary system of a fetus been revealed, and as well the findings of complex postnatal examination of 24 children at the age of from 10 days to 12 months are presented. In 62.5% of fetuses, obstructive uropathy was revealed, in 37.
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