vesicoureteral reflux
Are DMSA Scans Reliable for Diagnosing Vesicoureteral Reflux in Infants and Children?
... detecting vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) in infants and children and if that can replace the voiding cystourethrography ...high-grade reflux (grade IV or V), while 26 had low-grade reflux (grades ...
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Vesicoureteral Reflux, a Scarred kidney, and Minimal Proteinuria: An Unusual Cause of Adult Secondary Hypertension
... prevalent. Vesicoureteral reflux as a cause of hypertension, while commonly described in pediatric populations, is less prevalent in the adult population especially in the absence of ...right-sided ...
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Renal Scarring in Children with Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux Disease
... UTI. Vesicoureteral reflux was graded according to the classification system of the International Reflux Study Committee; grade I indicates reflux into the proximal ureter without dilatation, ...
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Randomized Intervention for Children With Vesicoureteral Reflux (RIVUR): Background Commentary of RIVUR Investigators
... with vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), the need exists for a well-designed and appropri- ately powered study that can determine the effectiveness of antimicrobial prophy- laxis on preventing recurrences of UTI ...
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Comparative Evaluation of Three Methods of Vesicoureteral Reflux Induction in Rabbits
... Procedures- sixteen healthy NewZiland White male rabbits were randomly divided in four equal groups. All rabbits were preoperatively evaluated with retrograde cystography for the presence or absence of congenital or ...
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Current management of vesicoureteral reflux in pediatric patients: a review
... Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), the abnormal retrograde flow of urine into the upper urinary tract, is both an anatomical and functional pediatric ...while reflux in the presence of bacteriuria puts the ...
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Intravenous Pyelography in Children With Urinary Tract Infection and Vesicoureteral Reflux
... Abbreviations: IVP, intravenous pyelography; US, renal ultrasonography; VCUG, voiding cystourethrogra- phy; LGR, low-grade vesicoureteral reflux (I or II/V). imaging workup starts with v[r] ...
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Predicting Factors of Breakthrough Infection in Children with Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux
... 2. Garin EH, Olavarria F, Garcia Nieto V, Valenciano B, Campos A, Young L. Clinical significance of primary vesicoureteral reflux and urinary antibiotic prophylaxis after acute pyelonephritis: a multi- ...
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Continuous antibiotic prophylaxis in the setting of prenatal hydronephrosis and vesicoureteral reflux
... Continuous antibiotic prophylaxis (CAP) has traditionally been offered for children with recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) or those at risk, including children diagnosed with prenatal hydrone- phrosis (HN) and ...
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Vesicoureteral Reflux in the Primate: III. Effect of Urinary Tract Infection on Maturation of the Ureterovesical Junction
... reflux, urinary tract infection, ureterovesical junction, primate studies.. The incidence of vesicoureteral reflux is low in.[r] ...
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Vesicoureteral Reflux: The Role of Antibiotic Prophylaxis
... The contrast VCUG, to detect vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), has been considered by most, but not all, experts to be a very important study to perform. This is based on the understanding that one of the ...
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Utility of Follow-up Renal Sonography in Children With Vesicoureteral Reflux and Normal Initial Sonogram
... 3 reflux or lower, with none having grade 5 vesi- coureteral ...with reflux but no initial ultrasound abnormality, children with higher grades of vesicoureteral reflux, namely grades 4 and 5, ...
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Endoscopic treatment of vesicoureteral reflux using calcium hydroxyl apatite in dogs
... reconstruction procedures [1,9,10]. The rationale behind the endoscopic correction of VUR is to create a solid support behind the intravesical ureter by endoscopic injection of biomaterial, in order to elongate the ...
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Vesicoureteral reflux: From prophylaxis to surgery
... Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is the retrograde flow of urine from the bladder to the upper urinary tract. It is the end result of several anomalies related to the functional integrity of the ureter, the ...
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Hereditary Vesicoureteral Reflux: A Study of 66 Families
... Vesicoureteral reflux is a congenital defect of the urinary tract with a high risk of inheritance if a parent or sib- ling is affected. However, of the 560 individuals who responded to our questionnaire, 99 ...
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Vesicoureteral Reflux in Asymptomatic Siblings of Patients With Known Reflux: Radionuclide Cystography
... Although the possible significance of vesicoureteral reflux in urinary tract infection had been proposed in 1903 by Sampson,24 it was only in 1960 that the pathogenesis of reflux nephrop[r] ...
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Clinical Significance of Primary Vesicoureteral Reflux and Urinary Antibiotic Prophylaxis After Acute Pyelonephritis: A Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Study
... with reflux demonstrated that the rates of recurrence of UTI among patients with reflux did not differ significantly from the rates for the group of chil- dren with UTI who did not have ...
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Is It Practical to Screen for Familial Vesicoureteral Reflux Within a Private Pediatric Practice?
... The risk of reflux in siblings of known children with reflux Is thus significant and, at least in this study, compares with the risk of reflux after urinary tract in-.. fection.[r] ...
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Treatment of Vesicoureteral Reflux Using Endoscopic Injection of Nonanimal Stabilized Hyaluronic Acid/Dextranomer Gel: Initial Experience in Pediatric Patients by a Single Surgeon
... This study has demonstrated that endoscopic injection of NASHA/Dx gel can be successfully administered to chil- dren with VUR without previous experience of the tech- nique. Reflux was resolved in ⬎ 90% of ...
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Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Community-Acquired Urinary Tract Infections in Children With Vesicoureteral Reflux Receiving Prophylactic Antibiotic Therapy
... We reviewed retrospectively the CGCH hospital records for 418 children with documented VUR who were treated between January 2001 and December 2002; 94 were excluded because they were lost to follow-up mon- itoring or ...
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