Thirty three healthy infants and children with a family history of reflux nephropathy or vesicoureteric reflux in first degree relatives were screened for upper urinary tract abnormalities (renal scarring or pelvicaliceal dilatation) using ultrasound scanning or intravenous urography, or both. In addition, micturating cystourethrography was carried out in all infants and children under 2 years ...

OBJECTIVE To test the medical belief that the micturating cystourethrogram (MCU) be deferred four to six weeks after acute symptomatic urinary tract infection (UTI) because of the risk of falsely detecting vesicoureteric reflux if performed earlier. STUDY DESIGN A cross sectional analytic study of preschool children with first time symptomatic UTI. RESULTS Of the 284 eligible children, 272 ...

Vesicoureteric reflux is defined as the retrograde passage of urine from the bladder into one or both ureters and often up to the kidneys, and mainly affects babies and infants. In severe cases dilatation of the ureter, renal pelvis, and calyces might be seen. Traditionally it was thought that only a low percentage of children have vesicoureteric reflux, but studies have suggested as many as 25...

Vesicoureteric reflux is an important association of paediatric urinary tract infection. Fluoroscopic micturating cystourethrography and radionuclide cystography have been employed for detecting and grading vesicoureteric reflux. However, both modalities involve ionising radiation, which can pose significant radiation risk to growing children. They also have a lower detection rate due to interm...

Vesicoureteric reflux was produced in eight piglets by opening their bladders and slitting the anterior intravesical wall of the ureter. Cystography confirmed the presence of bilateral reflux in six piglets and unilateral reflux in two. Six to eight weeks later the bladder was again opened and Teflon paste injected in the space behind the intravesical ureter, thereby creating a support for the ...

A review of 105 children with urinary tract infection showed an increasing prevalence of grades II-III vesicoureteric reflux with diminishing age. During infancy reflux was almost always severe, and affected boys as often as girls. Radiologically scarred kidneys were drained by refluxing ureters in 98% of cases. The prevalence of scars also rose significantly with increasinglyly severe reflux. ...

conclusions timely detection and appropriate antibiotic therapy of afbn are essential to prevent renal abscess formation. a possible diagnosis of afbn needs to be considered in all patients being treated for febrile uti. detection and surgical correction of the underlying malformation are necessary to prevent further recurrences. case presentation here we describe a case of a 4-year-old boy adm...

Rolleston, G. L., Maling, T. M. J., and Hodson, C. J. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 531. Intrarenal reflux and the scarred kidney. The incidence and significance of intrarenal reflux (pyelotubular backflow) occurring during micturating cystourethrography has been studied in 386 examinations on patients with vesicoureteric reflux. This phenomenon has not been observed in patients...

Sixty one patients with primary vesicoureteric reflux were treated by endoscopic injection of Mentor Polytef paste. Seventy six of the 94 treated ureters showed complete disappearance of vesicoureteric reflux after one injection. Eight refluxing ureters required a second injection, one required a third, and one a fourth. Six ureters showed improvement in the grade of reflux after the first inje...