Transition and Lifelong Care in Congenital Urology /
This volume will cover many of the most prevalent challenges for the urologist caring for adult congenital patients. The first section of the text will provide a framework for transition to an adult care model as well as a general approach to patients with three of the most common conditions encount...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Current clinical urology.
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Table of Contents:
- The basics
- The transition process: Initial assessment and defining goals and development of the multidisciplinary team
- Approach to the myelodysplasia patient
- Approach to the exstrophy patient
- Approach to the posterior urethral valve patient
- Approach to the hypospadias cripple
- Genital/urethra
- Sexual function/fertility in myelodysplasia
- Male (ejac/erectile)
- Female (incl POP)
- Revision genitoplasty, sexual function, fertility and pelvic organ prolapse in exstrophy + management of pregnancy
- Natural history of adults with hypospadias + urethral reconstruction, fertility, and chordee in hypospadias
- Issues in the long-term management of adolescents and adults with disorders of sexual differentiation (management of gonads, genital reconstruction, late presentation of the undiagnosed DSD)
- Lower tract problems in adulthood for patients with bladder reconstructions
- New or escalating recurrent UTIsTBD
- Progressive renal deterioration – distinguishing urological from nephrological causes. Include nephrology input on renal protection
- New or worsening incontinence
- Trouble-shooting urostomies (leakage/stenosis) – indications for and approaches to revision surgery
- Cancer risk and surveillance in the patient with a augmentation cystoplasty or urostomy
- Upper tract considerations
- Renal transplant in patients with abnormal lower tracts
- Management of calculi in patients with malabsorption or osteodystrophy
- Late presentation of patient with primary bladder neck obstruction and/or PUV
- Age-related urological problems in the complex urological patient
- BPH and neurogenic bladder
- Prostate cancer screening/treatment
- Hypogonadism
- Urological follow-up of childhood malignancies eg Wilms Tumor and Rhabdomyoscarcomas.