Children’s Urologists – Leaders in National Deflux Teaching Efforts

from Practice Update, Summer 2004

Dr. Marty Koyle (far left) and Dr. Peter Furness (center)
host urologic fellows for the third consecutive national
Deflux surgical demonstration and conference at The
Children’s Hospital.

Drs. Marty Koyle and Peter Furness have been closely involved in the investigation and introduction of DEFLUX® for the treatment of vesicoureteral reflux (VUR). Both surgeons have extensive experience with this new technique. Consequently, The Children’s Hospital has been chosen as one of 12 American centers to evaluate the Deflux technique in ongoing FDA trials. Drs. Koyle and Furness have been selected as instructors to teach the technique to pediatric urologists nationally. The Children’s Hospital is the only site in the country hosting an annual training conference for graduating fellows in pediatric urology. In May 2004, Drs. Furness and Koyle hosted their third national live surgical demonstration and conference.

Marty Koyle, MD, FAAP, FACS, explains the advantages of the Deflux procedure, “The new minimally-invasive Deflux procedure helps kids avoid open surgery and surgical scars and eliminates the discomfort and radiation associated with repeated catheterizations and voiding cystourethrograms. Deflux minimizes the need for long-term antibiotics with their potential side effects.”

“VUR is the most common urinary tract problem occurring in children that can affect the kidneys,” says Peter Furness, MD, FAAP, FACS, Interim Chair. “It affects approximately one percent of children. Of girls with urinary tract infections, or UTIs, one third will have associated VUR. If they also have high fever, up to fifty percent will be diagnosed with reflux.”