Author(s)

Isso Ouédraogo^1*, Toussaint Wendlamita Tapsoba¹, Cyprien Zaré², Emile Bandré¹, Bernadette Bernadette¹, Somkieta Francis Ouédraogo¹, Albert Wandaogo¹

¹Department of Pediatric Surgery, Teaching Pediatric Hospital Charles de Gaulle, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
²Department of Surgery, Teaching Hospital Sour? Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

Introduction: Urologic pathologies of children are frequent. Urinary apparatus diseases occupy the third position after those of respiratory and digestive tracts in children. Objectives: The objective of this study was to investigate epidemiologic, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of urologic pathologies of children in our hospital. Patients and Methods: This work is a descriptive and retrospective study from January 1st 2005 to December, 31st 2012 on children from 0 to 15 years old admitted and treated in Teaching Pediatric Hospital Charles de Gaulle for a urologic pathology. Results: In total, 711 patients had been registered with 7.3 sex-ratio, an average age of 4 years old (0 - 15 years old). Malformative pathologies were represented by the majority (62.7%). They were mainly composed of peritoneovaginal canal pathology, posterior urethra valves (PUV), and Pyeloureteral junction anomaly (PUJA). Urolithiasis, infectious, and tumoural pathologies were second, third and fourth with 19.4%, 7.6% and 5.8% respectively. Surgical treatment was necessary for 83.2% of patients. A total nephrectomy has been realized in 5 cases for PUJA with mute kidney. Some post-operative complications have been observed in 2.6% of operated patients. The global mortality rate was 2.9% with Wilms’ tumor predominance in aetiology (58.8%). Conclusion: Urologic pathologies of children are dominated by urogenital malformations. The decreasing of their lethality is guided by a MU antenatal diagnosis and a personal qualification to improve the diagnosis and the treatment.

Uropathy, Children, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment

Ouédraogo, I. , Tapsoba, T. , Zaré, C. , Bandré, E. , Bernadette, B. , Ouédraogo, S. and Wandaogo, A. (2015) Urologic Pathologies of Child at Ouagadougou. Open Journal of Urology, 5, 172-177. doi: 10.4236/oju.2015.59027.