Pediatric Surgery
Pediatric Urology Treatments
Pediatric Surgery
If your child has a disease or disorder related to the genitals or the urinary system (kidney, urethra, bladder, penis, etc.), the specialist with the required knowledge and experience to provide treatment is a pediatric urologist. These are specialists with years of training in the area of urology who have dedicated their lives to acquiring techniques and skills needed to treat the most delicate and, often, most demanding patients: children. We can list three qualities that set Pediatric Urology specialists apart:
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DEFINItion
The ability to deal with Children
Being a doctor is a title, it is an academic goal that is achieved with years of studies. However, the ability to deal with children, especially on sensitive subjects like the genitals, is often vocational, almost belonging to the field of innate talent.
Specialists in Pediatric Urology spend years dedicated entirely to the service of children, learning to treat them without feeling sorry, nervous or afraid. Assessing children’s genitals can be challenging and could end up going wrong in inexperienced hands. Moreover, certain techniques or therapies that require some trust and extra concern between the patient and the specialist need to be applied at times.
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FREQUENT CAUSES
Medical-Parental Relationship
Another very important skill of Pediatric Urology specialists is making parents feel confident to allow them to evaluate their children. You should feel that the specialist is prepared and has the necessary experience to treat your child and not harm him, physically or psychologically.
Specialists in Pediatric Urology have more skills than pediatricians themselves. Approaching that delicate part of the body in front of parents require much more than good treatment alone, but security, confidence, and firmness, which they always have in abundance.
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MEDICAL EVALUATION
Base and Experience
Unlike other conventional specialists (pediatrician, general surgeon, internist, etc.), Pediatric Urologists undergo up to 15 years of medical studies. This is, of course, without counting all the subsequent experience. They tend to go through longer academic education, and this is evident in their knowledge on how to deal with: the most special and delicate medical patients.
Special considerations: Adults vs. Babies
Dealing with a baby will always be challenging. Unlike adults, they cannot specify where it hurts, the magnitude, time, etc. They simply give endless nonspecific data that doctors must always analyze in order to reach the diagnosis. In Pediatric Urology, it is not different. It is difficult to manage a patient with little information from their parents. However, we are trained for it.
We often rely on the nonspecific orientation that the patient gives us. Sometimes, we depend on the direct data we find during our physical examination. The truth is that our many years of studies don’t go to waste but promptly pay off, as we always reach the diagnosis quite quickly.
In our center in Seville, we have the famous Dr. Pedro López Pereira, a specialist in Pediatric Urology who has treated hundreds of children in his long experience at the Hospital Universitario La Paz in the Madrid Community. He is the chief surgeon of this medical unit of Andromedi and the person who performs all the interventions and follows up the results.
Most common treatments in Pediatric Urology
- Phimosis: Many newborns have a narrow foreskin, which usually improves by 3-4 years, but it is always necessary to follow up.
- Cryptorchidism: Problems with poor testicular descent.
- Reflux vesicoureteral: the backward flow of urine from the bladder to the ureter and kidney
- Epididymitis, orchitis, and orchiepididymitis: Inflammations of the scrotal area that have to be treated urgently to avoid major problems.
- Hydrocele: Accumulation of fluid in the testicle.
- Varicocele: Dilation of the testicular veins.
- Penis curve in children: the well-known congenital curve of the penis
- Pieloureteral obstruction: Obstructions in the high urinary system, close to the kidneys.