Prognostic factors affecting the results of pyeloplasty in infants and children.
- Author:
Yun Seob SONG
1
;
Seung Kang CHOI
Author Information
1. Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
ureteropelvic junction obstruction;
pyeloplasty
- MeSH:
Academic Medical Centers;
Child*;
Diagnosis;
Growth and Development;
Humans;
Hydronephrosis;
Infant*;
Kidney;
Pelvis;
Prognosis;
Pyuria;
Radioisotope Renography;
Urinary Tract Infections
- From:Korean Journal of Urology
1991;32(1):69-76
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
This study was performed to evaluate the influence of the possible preoperative prognostic factors on the results of pyeloplasty and to predict the postoperative prognosis according to these factors. Of 56 cases under the age of 15 years admitted to Yonsei University Medical Center from 1979 to 1988 with the diagnosis of ureteropelvic junction obstruction, 30 cases, who could be followed up after dismembered pyeloplasty, were analyzed for the preoperative prognostic factors. The possible preoperative prognostic factors affecting postoperative results after pyeloplasty are the age at the time of surgery. the length of obstruction and the state of growth and development. But the pyuria, the urinary tract infection, the severity of hydronephrosis, the presence of extrarenal pelvis, the function and degree of obstruction of the diseased kidney on renography, the thickness of renal parenchyme and the presence of the obstruction of contralateral kidney did not affect the postoperative results after pyeloplasty.
