Office Location Clinical Services: 2G Administrative offices: 2E Telephone: 860.545.9520 Urodynamics Lab: 860.545.9521 Fax: 860.545.9545 Contact Person Judy Reilly 860.545.9332

What is Pediatric Urology?
Why choose a Pediatric Urologist?
Information for New Patients
Return appointments
Satellite clinics

What is Pediatric Urology?
Urology is a surgical specialty dealing with problems involving the urinary tract (Kidneys, ureters, bladder or urethra) and the genital tract (penis, prostate, testes, uterus, vagina and ovaries).

Pediatric Urology is a sub-specialty of Urology handling problems relating to the urinary and genital systems specifically when they occur in children from before they are born through childhood and adolescence. 

These problems require special care from people who are specially trained to deal with these conditions in this special group of patients in a facility that is specifically geared to take care of children from infancy through adolescence.

Why choose a Pediatric Urologist?
Pediatric Urologists are specially trained physicians and urologists who care for those medical and surgical problems involving the genital and urinary tracts.  Our Pediatric Urologists at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center are highly trained pediatric urologists who are certified by the American Board of Urology and are also members or Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics (Urology Section), the American College of Surgeons, Society for Pediatric Urology, the Society for Fetal Urology and  the American Urological Association.   We are the only full-time urologists that limit our practice to the care and genitourinary needs  of infants, children and adolescences in Central Connecticut.

We have expertise in caring for complex pediatric genitourinary conditions, including bladder exstrophy, epispadias, hypospadias, undescended testes, pediatric hernias and hydroceles, varicoceles and other genital disorders, including ambiguous genitalia and hermaphroditism.  Other urologic conditions that we treat include kidney obstruction, bladder obstruction by urethral valves or ureteroceles, vesicoureteral reflux and pediatric genitourinary trauma and urolithiasis. 

Genitourinary tumors are also evaluated and treated by our well-trained pediatric urologists in conjunction with pediatric oncologists and radiation therapists, as needed, to provide a fully comprehensive and thorough approach to cancer management in all children.

Our department has a full time Minimally Invasive specialist in pediatric urologic surgery.  Laparoscopic and robotic urologic procedures are expertly preformed by our well trained and experienced Minimally invasive urologic specialist.  Such surgeries include procedures for kidney blockage or removal, intraabdominal undescended testis, intra-abdominal intersex surgery, and varicocele surgery.  State of the art equipment and robotics are used for these surgeries that allow the child or adolescent to resume their normal daily activities fairly soon after surgery and with small cosmetically acceptable incisions for major surgical intervention.

Endoscopic treatment for kidney and ureter stones, vesicoureteral reflux and extracorporal lithotripsy (ESWL) are also available with outpatient or short hospital stays after these procedures with most patients resuming normal daily activities in 1 to 2 days, at most.  Generally, these techniques do not involve any surgical incisions.

Prenatal or antenatal services are also available to those families whose fetal or prenatal ultrasound studies show genitourinary abnormalities.  Meeting with families before the child is born helps to alleviate most fears about their expected child and allows all of us to plan for post natal evaluation and comprehensive care and treatment once the baby is born.  These services are currently available at the University of Connecticut Medical Center and our offices with the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.   

Information for Parents

New Patients
If your child is being referred to Pediatric Urology, new patient appointments are made by calling 860.545.9520 during normal business hours ( Monday – Friday, between 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM).  To better assist in your child’s evaluation and treatment, please see that medical records, such as history and physical findings, laboratory results, previous treatments from your child’s regular doctor or hospital summaries or reports, if your child has been admitted to the hospital, be sent to our office by mail or fax before your child is seen in the office.  If your child has had any x-rays, including ultrasounds, CT scans or nuclear scans, please bring the actual x-ray films or computer discs with you to the appointment.   Records should be sent to Pediatric Urology, CCMC, 282 Washington Street, Hartford, CT 06106 or sent by FAX to 860.545.9545. 

At the time of your child’s appointment, you will be requested to complete several office chart forms, including information about patient contact information, insurance information, consents for treatment as well as family history and patient background information.  As it may take time to complete this paperwork and parking and traffic can be difficult, we recommend that you give yourself plenty of time to get to your child’s appointment.  Generally, you should arrive for your child’s appointment about 20 minutes before the scheduled appointment time. 

If your child’s problem involves the urinary system, particularly if the problem involves urine infections, pain or blood in urine or incontinence (wetting), he or she may be required to give a urine specimen for evaluation; make sure that your child has a full bladder so that he/she can give the specimen for evaluation at the time of the appointment. 

If you are uncertain if x-ray, ultrasound or other imaging studies are needed prior to your child’s appointment, please ask our staff to check this for you.  This way, if x-rays are needed, we can help schedule these studies prior to your child’s appointment.

Return appointments
Generally, you will not have to fill out as many forms with return appointments, but if there has been a change in address, telephone numbers or insurance information, we would appreciate it if you would update this so that your child will better served, especially if we need to contact you concerning your child’s treatment or testing results.

You may also be requested to update any changes in your child’s or family’s medical history to keep his/her information current to give your child’s provider the best information to assist in the evaluation and care of your child.

As with the initial patient appointment, if your child is being seen for a urinary tract problem, a urine specimen may be required from your child for evaluation at the time of the appointment and he or she should come to the clinic with a full bladder so that a specimen should be easily obtained at the time of the appointment. 

If you are uncertain if x-ray, ultrasound or other imaging studies are needed prior to your child’s appointment, please ask our staff to check this for you.  This way, if x-rays are needed, we can help schedule these studies prior to your child’s appointment.

Satellite clinics
To better serve the families of Connecticut, we have our physician providers available at several satellite office centers around the state.   We provide the same professional outpatient services that patients receive in our downtown Children’s Hospital office.  If you prefer to have your child seen at a more conveniently located Satellite clinic, you can request an outpatient appointment at one of our other locations in Avon, Middlebury or Stamford.  Most children who need x-rays or surgical procedures will need to go to the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford for these services.