Interventions for primary vesicoureteric reflux

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2019, Issue 2, 2019, Pages

  Williams, Gabrielle ^a   Hodson, Elisabeth M ^b,c   Craig, Jonathan C ^c,d  

^a Centre for Population Health   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT WESTMEAD   (Australia)

^d FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; COLLAGEN; COPOLYMER; DEXTRANOMER; DIMETICONE; GLUTARALDEHYDE; HYALURONIC ACID; OXYBUTYNIN; PLACEBO; POLYACRYLATE POLYALCOHOL COPOLYMER; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SUCCIMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLADDER TRAINING; CIRCUMCISION; CRANBERRY; END STAGE RENAL DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC INJECTION TREATMENT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; FEVER; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL INTOLERANCE; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION RATE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; KIDNEY INJURY; KIDNEY SCINTISCANNING; MICTURITION CYSTOURETHROGRAPHY; OPEN SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIMARY VESICOURETERIC REFLUX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THRUSH; URETER REIMPLANTATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; URINE RETENTION; VESICOURETERAL REFLUX; VOMITING;

EID: 85061990920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001532     Document Type: Article

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