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Centre de Pediatrie Gatien de Clocheville

Causes of Macroplastique endoscopic treatment failure identified

Published in Medical Imaging Week, August 6th, 2005

Factors involved in Macroplastique endoscopic treatment failure have been identified in pediatric vesico-ureteric reflux patients.

"Macroplastique has been used since 1993 for the endoscopic treatment of vesico-ureteric reflux in children, with a failure rate per injected ureteric unit of 21%," pediatricians in France explained.

B.D. Kouame and colleagues at the Centre de Pediatrie Gatien de Clocheville conducted a study to "analyze these failures on the basis of endoscopic findings on injection, ultrasound data at 2 months post-endoscopy and operative findings during the secondary reimplantation."

In addition, "cases of failure...

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