background urinary stone incidence in pregnancy has been reported in a wide range, from 1 in 200 to 1 in 2000 cases. objectives the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy and safety of ureteroscopic treatment and its results and complications for pregnant women with urinary stones. patients and methods from 2003 till 2011, 113 pregnant patients with symptomatic urolithiasis were admi...

OBJECTIVES There is no formal agreement or criteria utilized to establish a standard of treatment in children with antenatally diagnosed HN. METHODS We analyzed our own experience in addition to the protocols attending to this subject. Twenty eight (28) children with unilateral HN were assessed from October 1999 through October 2005 and the anteroposterior diameter of renal pelvis (APDP) was ...

background: with regard to accelerated progresses in the world of science and technology, as well as changes in the needs of the society, medical education should be a developing process. one of the main factors that can promote education from a static to a dynamic and effective state is evaluation. purpose: the purpose of the present survey is to determine the rate of success of medical studen...

Objectives: To describe the maternal and fetal characteristics of isolated antenatal hydronephrosis (ANH), to address parental concerns by providing local data based on the fetal renal pelvis anteroposterior diameter (APD), and to determine the most effective APD cutoff in the second and third trimester for prediction of postnatal urological outcome. Methods: A retrospective review of all cases...

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine if impaired distal ureteral contraction detected by urinary ultrasonography (US) could predict presence vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Materials and Methods: A Retrospective analysis patients’ files between November 2016 September 2020 performed. total 248 children with demonstrated VUR on voiding cystourethrogram (VCUG) who underwent US within on...

The Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) has adopted “A commitment to excellence” as a slogan for 2015. Selected by members of the editorial board among various candidates, this slogan most accurately reflects the eagerness and passion of our members and our commitment to reaching excellence in the field of urology. To be an excellent journal in the f ield of urology, the KJU should be indexed in SC...

OBJECTIVES To determine thresholds for the fetal renal pelvic anterior-posterior diameter (APD) predicting postnatal clinically relevant pelvicaliceal dilatation. METHODS One hundred and forty-eight infants whose prenatal sonography had identified an isolated uni- or bilateral fetal APD of > or = 4 mm before 33 and/or > or = 7 mm after 33 weeks' gestational age were investigated postnatally. ...

The 2016 Great Wall International Translational Andrology and Urology Forum, and Huaxia Medical ForumGenitourinary Tumor (HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016) will be held at Tianjin Convention Center, Tianjin, China, April 15–17, 2016. Please visit the meeting website (http:// www.gua-hmf2016.com) for more information. HMF-GUT2016 & GITAU2016 is organized by China International Exchange and Promotive Asso...