Introduction: Genitourinary birth defects are reported to be present in approximately 10-30% of all newborns. Timely treatments may reduce complications that contribute to increased infant morbimortality. Understanding the distribution of health access is essential for the design of health interventions ...
Horseshoe kidney (HSK) has a prevalence of 1 in every 500 individuals. The management
of patients with HSK is usually conservative, except in the presence of symptoms
such as obstruction, stones, glomerulopathies, and tumors. In the following case
report, we describe how a bilateral en-block transmesente...
Riñón Fusionado,
Riñón,
Posición Supina,
Neoplasias,
Nefrectomía,
Litiasis,
Insuficiencia Renal Crónica,
Hipospadias,
Glomeruloesclerosis Focal y Segmentaria,
Glomerulonefritis,
Biopsia
Objectives Congenital malformations constitute the first cause of morbidity and mortality in childhood in Latin America. That is why, since 2001, a surveillance system for congenital malformations has been implemented in Bogota - Colombia. However, despite the increase in detection, an impact on treatm...
Objective Hypospadias is a congenital disease of unknown etiology involving multiple
epigenetic, genetic, and endocrinological factors. It is a highly incapacitating
condition. Its surgical management is one of the most frequent surgical procedures
done by pediatric urologists. Furthermore, the geographi...
Introducción y Objetivos Las hipospadias son una malformación congénita de la uretra que resulta en un desplazamiento ventral anormal de la uretra. La corrección quirúrgica requiere del adecuado entendimiento de la anatomía ya que el objetivo es crear un pene con una función y apariencia normal....
At Johns Hopkins, around the turn of the 20th century, Halsted revolutionized the training of future surgeons by having them serving as apprentices, learning mainly by spending long, celibate hours in the hospital observing surgery with the mantra of “See one, do one, teach one.” Urology was an infan...
Introduction Hypospadias is a multifactorial malformation. Among previously described genes, the MAMLD1 has recently been identified in association with the development of hypospadias. So far, there are no studies in Latin America addressing this gene. The aim of this paper is to describe the presence ...
