The Infrequent Voider Syndrome or Lazy Bladder Syndrome in children is characterized by a large capacity bladder, frequently associated with a significant volume of residual urine. Usually these patients arrive at medical examination with a history of recurrent urinary infections but without anomalies in the upper urinary tract. We report about a young girl affected by one-sided 2 degrees degre...

a prospective study during 1990-1995 was conducted to assess the risk of rejection and infection in kidney-transplant recipients, who's original kidney had vesico-ureteral reflux (ver). two groups of recipients with and without ver were followed for one month after transplant 24 and 250 cases respectively. the calculated relative risks for the effect of ver showed a moderate increased risk...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the urinary concentration of epidermal growth factor (EGF) and monocyte chemotactic protein-1 (MCP-1) as reflux nephropathy (RN) biomarkers before and after endoscopic treatment of moderate to severe vesico-ureteral reflux (VUR). MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study was carried out on 72 children with moderate to severe VUR. All patients u...

ROSE, JOHN G., AND JAY Y. GILLENWATER. Pathophysiology of ureteral obstruction. Am. J. Physiol. 225(4-j: 830437. 1973.Forty-five experiments measuring the force of contractility within the ureteral wall, its wall tension, and the propelling force within its lumen, its intraluminal pressure, were performed on 29 dogs. The parameters of wall tension and intraluminal pressure served as an excellen...

VUR: Vesico Ureteral Reflux; UTI: Urinary Tract Infection; APN: Acute Pyelo Nephritis; UVJ: Uretero Vesical Junction; CND: Common Nephric Duct; UGS: Uro Genital Sinus; BOO: Bladder Outlet Obstructions; PUV: Posterior Urethral Valves; LUTD: Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction; AUA: American Urological Association; RPD: Renal Pelvic Diameter; CAKUT: Congenital Anomalies of the Kidney and Urinary Trac...

OBJECTIVE Discolored ureteral stents are sometimes encountered in daily clinical practice; however, the mechanism(s) underlying the development of discolored ureteral stents remain unknown. In this study, we retrospectively analyzed the characteristics of discolored ureteral stents based on the results of a urinalysis and urine culture. MATERIALS & METHODS We identified a total of 26 patients...