Table 1.
Parent reported urological procedures and infection in children with urological disease
| Pts With Urological Disease | Subgroups of Urological Disease
|
p Value* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Obstructive Uropathy | Aplastic/Hypoplastic/Dysplastic | Reflux Nephropathy | Other | |||
| No. urologist visits (%) | 291 (84) | 117 (99) | 61 (59) | 77 (90) | 36 (95) | <0.001 |
| Median yrs age at presentation (IQR) | Less than 1 (less than 1–2) | Less than 1 (0–1) | Less than 1 (0–2) | 1 (0–5) | Less than 1 (0–1) | 0.005 |
| No. urological procedure (%) | 238 (70) | 103 (91) | 42 (40) | 64 (76) | 29 (74) | <0.001 |
| No. kidney infections, ever (%): | 151 (48) | 60 (57) | 27 (28) | 42 (53) | 22 (61) | <0.001 |
| Median No. first yr of life (IQR) | 1 (0, 3) | 1 (0, 3) | 1 (0, 3) | 1 (0, 3) | 2 (0, 3) | 0.726 |
| Median No. yr before baseline visit (IQR) | 0 (0, 1) | 0 (0, 1) | 1 (0, 1) | 0 (0, 0.5) | 1 (0, 2) | 0.001 |
| No. diagnostic method (%): | ||||||
| Ultrasound | 309 (97) | 108 (98) | 91 (96) | 77 (97) | 33 (100) | 0.666 |
| Voiding cystourethrogram | 217 (73) | 80 (75) | 48 (56) | 70 (91) | 19 (68) | <0.001 |
| Nuclear medicine study | 136 (49) | 47 (48) | 29 (35) | 44 (63) | 16 (55) | 0.006 |
| Magnetic resonance imaging | 56 (21) | 22 (23) | 15 (19) | 11 (17) | 8 (27) | 0.636 |
| Computerized tomography | 57 (21) | 21 (22) | 15 (18) | 15 (21) | 6 (21) | 0.947 |
| Excretory urography | 40 (15) | 11 (12) | 11 (14) | 12 (19) | 6 (21) | 0.510 |
| Genetic testing | 24 (9) | 7 (7) | 13 (15) | 2 (3) | 2 (7) | 0.059 |
| Kidney biopsy | 11 (4) | 4 (4) | 4 (4) | 2 (3) | 1 (3) | 0.970 |
| Other | 57 (22) | 17 (18) | 13 (17) | 18 (27) | 9 (32) | 0.191 |
*
Kruskal-Wallis analysis using Wilcoxon rank sum scores for continuous variables and Fisher’s exact test for categorical variables.