The Changing Concepts of Vesicoureteral Reflux in Children
Call for Papers
Vesicoureteral reflux (VUR) is considered an enigma of pediatric urology practice, where the management of this salient disease evolved from surgical intervention to observation. Bladder physiology and dysfunction has become the culprit behind VUR, making the diagnosis of primary reflux a historical diagnosis. However, recently the introduction of Deflux and other injectable materials revolutionized the management of VUR in pediatric population. Subsequently, from the moment a child is diagnosed with reflux, pediatric urologists are faced with challenging questions both by parents and peers:
- Do antibiotics have a role in management of VUR?
- If the management of reflux is conservative, do we really need to have this pathology diagnozed? and which radiological modality is better?
- What are the current surgical modalities to treat reflux in 2008?
- What if reflux is not treated, does it cause higher risk of infections in girls at puberty?
- What can the literature tell us? More specifically, do we have enough objective data in the literature on the research and outcome of VUR that will help pediatric urologists make a decision?
Voiding cystourethrogram is recognized as a disturbingly invasive test in pediatrics and sedation, for this test is becoming a routine for children undergoing this test in some centers.
This special issue on the changing concepts of vesicoureteral reflux in children will be focused on addressing most of these questions in an attempt to provide a state-of-the-art foundation for decision making when a urologist is faced with a child who harbors VUR.
The ideal list of topics to be covered is as follows:
- Bladder dynamics, voiding dysfunction and reflux
- Endoscopic treatment: technique
- Intravesical ureteral reimplantation: surgical technique
- Extravesical ureteral reimplantation: surgical technique
- Antibiotics and vesicoureteral reflux
- Diagnostic approach to reflux in 2007
- Outcome of surgical versus medical management of VUR
- Update on reflux nephropathy and ESRD 2nd to VUR
- Relation between Deflux volume and reflux resolution
- Reflux treatment evolution
- Design of study
- VCUG and radiation
- Sedation and VCUG
- Reflux and puberty
- VUR management: state of the art or state of confusion
Authors should follow the Advances in Urology manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/au/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/, according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | April 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | July 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | October 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors
- Walid A. Farhat, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 1X8
- Hiep Nguyen, Children's Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA