What Is Pediatric Urology?
The Division of Pediatric Urology at the Johns Hopkins Children's Center supplies thorough and compassionate care to identify and treat all childhood urological issues. Our extremely experienced staff, equipped with the most sophisticated innovation, specializes in the treatment of a vast array of conditions.
If your child has a disease or disease of the genitals or urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, bladder), a pediatric urologist has the experience and qualifications to treat your child.
Pediatric urology conditions include a wide range of conditions involving the genital and urinary systems. Often these are congenital (present at birth) and diagnosed as early as prenatally or in infancy; in a lot of cases, they are treated and fixed early in life, in some cases through surgical reconstruction. Other times, the conditions are acquired during youth.
What Sort of Training Do Pediatric Urologists Have?
Pediatric urologists are medical doctors who have had:
A minimum of 4 years of medical school
One to 2 years of surgical residency
At least 4 additional years of residency training in basic urology
One to 3 years of extra fellowship training in pediatric urology
A pediatric urologist needs to devote a minimum of 75% of his/her practice to the urologic problems of babies, children, and adolescents.
The American Board of Urology has determined urologists that meet these requirements with an accreditation of added certification in Pediatric Urology.
What Types of Treatments Do Pediatric Urologists Offer?
Pediatric urologists are cosmetic surgeons who can detect, treat, and manage children's urinary and genital problems. Pediatric urologists generally supply the following services:
Evaluation and management of voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery
Surgical restoration of the urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, and bladder) including genital abnormalities, hypospadias, and conditions of sex development
Surgery for groin conditions in youth and adolescence (undescended testes, hydrocele/hernia, varicocele).
Assessment and surgical management of kidney stone disease
Surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis
Assessment and management of urological tract problems determined before birth
Evaluation and management of urinary tract issues connected with neurological conditions such as spina bifida.
Where Can I Discover A Pediatric Urologist?
Today, pediatric urologists can be found in almost every state and in essentially all the significant cities in the United States.
Pediatric Urologists– The Best Take care of Children
Children are not simply little grownups. They can not constantly state what is troubling them. They can not constantly address medical concerns, and are not always able to be patient and cooperative during a medical checkup.
Pediatric urologists are trained to focus care on the unique requirements of children and their parents– even on possibly delicate and awkward topics associated to genitalia and voiding problems. They know how to take a look at and treat children in a manner that makes them unwinded and cooperative. In addition, pediatric urologists frequently use equipment specially created for children. This assists develop a comfortable and non-threatening environment for your child.
If your pediatrician suggests that your child see a pediatric urologist, you can be guaranteed that he or she has the widest range of treatment options, the most extensive and comprehensive training, and the best expertise in dealing with children and in dealing with children's urinary tract conditions.
Fussy Baby: What Is Normal and What Is Not?
Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease in Children
Rheumatic Fever in Babies
What Is Colic?
Infant Bumped Head: When to Worry?
Pediatric Stem Cell Transplant
Separation Anxiety in Children
Why Infants Grunt
Pediatric Orthopedics Pediatric Dermatologist What Is Pediatric Rheumatology? What Is Pediatric Gastroenterology? What Is Pediatric Endocrinology? What Is Pediatric Oncology? What Is Pediatric Neurology? What Is Pediatric Dentistry? What Is a Pediatric Hospital and Hospitalist? What is a Pediatric Pulmonologist?
What Is Pediatric Rheumatology?
What Is Pediatric Adolescent Medicine?