hydronephrosis

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• However, it is more likely that all children in the series with ureteric reflux or hydronephrosis still living locally have been found by the postal survey or the search of the medical physics departments' records.

  Academic text (1991)

• When VUR is suggested by prenatal hydronephrosis, the newborn infant should be given prophylactic antibiotics until definitive radiological studies have established whether VUR is present.

  Academic text (2000)

• However, more than half the children with hydronephrosis or ureteric reflux had only slight dilatation (5 mm or less).

  Academic text (1991)

• Only 3 (0.3%) babies were found on neonatal screening to have non-refluxing hydronephrosis; none required surgery.

  Academic text (1991)

• Hence, the hydronephrosis that occurs in these mice is due to a functional defect and not a physical blockage of the outflow tract.

  Academic text (2018)

• Approximately 50% of patients have renal malformations, most commonly horseshoe kidney, hydronephrosis, or unilateral agenesis.

  Academic text (2004)

• VUR has been diagnosed with increasing frequency in infants by fetal ultrasonography, showing hydronephrosis, and micturating cystourethrography soon after birth.

  Academic text (2000)

• An intermittent catheterization program is usually initiated at approximately 3 years of age, unless there are medical reasons, such as hydronephrosis, to initiate sooner (Pontari & Bauer, 1996).

  Academic text (2004)

• One third of infants with prenatal hydronephrosis in whom, postnatally, there is no evidence of obstructive uropathy, have VUR, and approximately one third of the VUR group have kidney malformations.

  Academic text (2000)

• Hydronephrosis is a condition in which hydronephrosis causes the kidney to swell due to a backup of urine.

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