Received 11/26/2008; revised 12/10/2008; accepted 12/16/2008. For correspondence and reprints contact: Yee-Hsuan Chiou, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital. 386 Ta-Chung 1st Road, Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)7-3428203, Fax: (886)7-3468207, E-mail: [email protected] Background: Direct radionuclide cystography (DRC) has the advantage of high sensitivit...

Background: Children with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) are at risk of recurrent pyelonephritis, kidney scars, hypertension, and renal failure. Currently, VUR complications can be diagnosed by different imaging methods such as sonography, intravenous pyelography and dimercaptosuccinic acid (DMSA) scan, having certain limitations. Urinary level of ceruloplasmin (Cp) might be an effective non-radio...

 ABSTRACT Background: Experience with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) differs in different centers and there are plenty of controversies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome of primary VUR complications and the rate of recurrence of UTI. Methods: The medical charts of all infants and children with primary VUR who were followed up by two nephrologists were reviewed. During 19 years (19...

Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is a significant risk factor for pyelonephritis and renal scarring. VUR can occur through a defective ureterovesical junction (UVJ) or an overwhelmed normal UVJ mechanism such as in bladder dysfunction of congenital, acquired, or behavioral etiology. There are numerous causes for the development of a neurogenic bladder from spinal dysraphisms to spinal cord trauma an...

PURPOSE Endoscopic treatment (ET) has become a widely accepted procedure for treating vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). However, patients followed up after ET over long periods have reported persistent or recurrent VUR. We evaluated the natural course of failed ET in patients who required further treatments to help physicians in making decisions on the treatment of VUR. MATERIALS AND METHODS We re...

Objective: Renal transplantation is the primary treatment method for end-stage kidney disease. Many reasons such as surgical and infection may cause urological complications after transplantation. Management of renal urinary requires respectable experience. In this study, we aimed to present management patients who require reconstruction at our center. Material Methods: The data 16 underwent re...

UNLABELLED The current management of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) focuses on the prevention of urinary tract infections (UTI), with curative surgery being limited to those children that fail conservative measures. This is based on the assumption that UTIs are preventable with the use of prophylatic antibiotics, leading to reduction of renal scarring, and the possibility that VUR in children can ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of the present study is to determine the accuracy of magnetic resonance voiding cystourethrography (MRVCUG) for diagnosis of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in children and adolescents with recurrent urinary tract infection (UTI). MATERIALS AND METHODS During the cross-sectional study from May 2009 to June 2011, 30 patients' (60 kidney-ureter units) MRVCUG findings by 1.5 T...

BACKGROUND To assess the effectiveness of the current vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) grading system according to the international classification of VUR (ICVUR) and to evaluate whether VUR grading accuracy could be improved by renal ultrasonography (RU) according to the Society for Fetal Urology (SFU) grading system. OBJECTIVES Therefore, this study assessed the accuracy of the current VCUG stag...

INTRODUCTION Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is an important complication in patients with spinal cord injury due to its frequency and morbidity. One of the most extended therapeutic options is endoscopic injection of obliteration substances in the urethral meatus. OBJECTIVE To analyze the prognostic factors of VUR treatment using obliterative substances in patients with spinal cord injury. MAT...