Treatment results for pediatric urology
At New Children’s Hospital, we treat structural and functional problems and tumors in the urinary tract and genitalia of infants, children, and adolescents. Examinations and treatment take place in cooperation with other specialties. The most common urological problems are structural abnormalities in the urinary tract observed during the fetal period.
At New Children’s Hospital, we treat many rare urological problems from all around Finland. These include exstrophy and epispadias of the bladder and cloacal exstrophy, surgery on the female genital organs, particularly difficult surgery on the penis or the urethra in boys, reconstructive surgery of the urinary tract in children with severe kidney disease, some urinary tract reconstructions in patients with spinal cord injuries, and some of the rarest cancers.
Our treatment outcomes are of a high level. Serious complications in urological surgery are rare. Over the past 10 years, there has been no mortality due to urological surgery in the hospital, and no functioning kidneys have been lost as a result of the surgeries.
Our urological outpatient clinics and procedures are visited annually by
- more than 100 patients with spinal cord injuries
- 50 patients with exstrophy and epispadias of the bladder
- 50 patients for a posterior urethral flap procedure
- 200 patients with hypospadia
- 10 girls or young women with structural abnormalities of the genitalia.
Our treatment results
| Year | Surgeries | Proximal | Complications (%) | Distal | Complications (%) | Complications in total |
| 2021 | 26 | 10 | 1 (10%) | 16 | 1 (6%) | 8% |
| 2022 | 27 | 6 | 1 (17%) | 21 | 1 (5%) | 7% |
The treatment results for hypospadia surgeries at New Children’s Hospital are good and in line with other European reference centers.