Specific Behaviors of Young Healthy Children During Toilet Training and Their Associations With Functional Constipation: A Cohort Study.

Objectives: To assess the association between specific toilet training (TT) behaviors and functional constipation (FC) in young, healthy children.

Methods: This cross-sectional descriptive study distributed 2917 questionnaires to parents of healthy children across 38 nursery schools in Flanders. Parents were given questions regarding their child's TT and TT-related behaviors such as stool toileting refusal (STR), hiding, and requesting a diaper for defecation, along with questions about current stool issues, which involved assessing stool consistency using the Bristol Stool Chart.

Differential renal length index: useful measure in management of isolated unilateral hydronephrosis?

Objective: To explore the usefulness of the 'differential renal length index' (iDRL) before and after pyeloplasty, as the anteroposterior diameter is commonly used to quantify hydronephrosis but inaccuracies arise due to interobserver variability, hydration status and pure intra-renal dilatation.

Patients And Methods: Prospectively collected data, from two centres, of all children undergoing pyeloplasty for isolated unilateral pelvi-ureteric junction obstruction (PUJO) (2015-2021) were analysed. Subgroup analysis was undertaken: Group A - differential renal function (DRF) ≥40%, Group B - subnormal DRF (20-39%), and Group C - symptomatic.

Laparoscopy-Assisted Cutaneous Ureterostomy in Children: Early Experience.

Objective: Laparoscopy-assisted cutaneous ureterostomy (LA-CU) is a minimally invasive approach for temporary urinary diversion in children. We describe the technique, its feasibility, potential advantages, and outcomes in 12 children treated for a variety of conditions.

Methods: Three trocars were used transperitoneally, one transumbilical, and another placed at the later stoma site.

Testicular asymmetry in healthy adolescent boys.

Objectives: To assess the presence of testicular asymmetry and the currently used threshold values in varicocoele management in a healthy adolescent population.

Subjects And Methods: We conducted an observational cross-sectional study from April 2015 until December 2016 in which we recruited 539 adolescent boys aged 11-16 years. A clinical examination including testicular size measurement by ultrasonography was performed.

Renal papillary necrosis in patients with sickle cell disease: How to recognize this 'forgotten' diagnosis.

Introduction: Renal papillary necrosis is not commonly seen in daily practice, but can have severe consequences when it is not diagnosed in time. It is known to be associated with sickle cell hemoglobinopathies; however a wide range of etiologies are possible, and it is therefore not the first diagnosis clinicians consider in patients with sickle cell disease who present with hematuria.

Methods: A literature search was performed to summarize the current knowledge about renal papillary necrosis associated with sickle cell disease.

Emphysematous cystitis: report of an atypical case.

We report the atypical case of a nondiabetic 66-year old male with severe abdominal pain and vomiting who was found to have emphysematous cystitis. Of all gas-forming infections of the urinary tract emphysematous cystitis is the most common and the least severe. The major risk factors are diabetes mellitus and urinary tract obstruction.

Continent catheterizable vesicostomy in an adult population: success at high costs.

Aims: To evaluate the long term outcome, to review the complication ratio and to analyze predicting factors of catheterizable continent vesicostomy in an adult population. To deduct a proper patient counseling policy.

Methods: We identified all patients that underwent a continent vesicostomy between 1998 and 2008.