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Warren Snodgrass, MD. Warren Snodgrass is a pediatric urologist specializing in the repair of hypospadias, the second most common birth defect.In 1994 he described the tubularized incised plate (TIP) repair of hypospadias, which has become known as the Snodgrass repair and has become the most common approach to repairing most forms of hypospadias.
Pediatric urology. Pediatric urology is a surgical subspecialty of medicine dealing with the disorders of children's genitourinary systems. Pediatric urologists provide care for both boys and girls ranging from birth to early adult age. The most common problems are those involving disorders of urination, reproductive organs and testes.
A posterior urethral valve is an obstructing membrane in the posterior male urethra as a result of abnormal in utero development. It is the most common cause of bladder outlet obstruction in male newborns. The disorder varies in degree, with mild cases presenting late due to milder symptoms. More severe cases can have renal and respiratory ...
Aseem Shukla. Aseem Ravindra Shukla is the director of minimally invasive surgery in the Department of Urology at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is a professor of surgery (urology) at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. [2] Shukla is the co-founder and board member of the Hindu American Foundation .
In 2015–2016, the U.S. News & World Report was ranked nationally for the following medical specialties: #25 pediatric nephrology, #27 pediatric oncology, #31 neonatology, #34 pediatric neurology and neurosurgery, #40 pediatric pulmonology, #49 pediatric cardiology and heart surgery, and #49 pediatric urology. [1]
Prune belly syndrome is a rare, genetic birth defect affecting about 1 in 40,000 births. [4] About 97% of those affected are male. Prune belly syndrome is a congenital disorder of the urinary system, characterized by a triad of symptoms. The syndrome is named for the mass of wrinkled skin that is often (but not always) present on the abdomen of ...
In the 2012-13 U.S. News & World Report: Best Children's Hospital rankings for the United States, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Children's Hospital ranked 49th in pediatric orthopedics, 46th in pediatric pulmonology, and 35th in pediatric urology. [56] In 2018 the hospital was rated as the fifth best children's hospital in the New York area. [57]
Hospitals in Manhattan. Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian (MSCH or CHONY [3]) is a women's and children's hospital at 3959 Broadway, near West 165th Street, in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It is a part of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and the Columbia University Irving Medical Center.