@article{article_554145, title={Evaluating The Relationship Between Age at Orchiopexy Performed at Our Center and Socio-Economic Development Level of Van Province}, journal={Yeni Üroloji Dergisi}, volume={15}, pages={75–79}, year={2020}, DOI={10.33719/yud.554145}, author={Gül, Abdullah and Gül, Murat and Kankılıç, Nazım A and Akgul, Ahsen K}, keywords={Age at orchiopexy,Socioeconomic development,Undescended testis}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:200%;"> <b> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">ABSTRACT </span> </b> </p> <p> <b> </b> </p> <b> </b> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <b>Objective </b>: </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">To
preserve testicular functions, surgery
for undescended testis is recommended between 6 and 18 months of age. However,
many patients undergo orchiopexy later than recommended ages. In this paper we
aimed to assess influence of socio-economic development level of Van province
on age at orchiopexy in our center. </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span style="line-height:200%;"> <b>Materials and methods </b> </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us" style="line-height:200%;"> <b>: </b> The medical records of the patients who were treated </span> <span style="line-height:200%;">with </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us" style="line-height:200%;"> orchiopexy in Van Education and Research Hospital between January 2014
and July 2018 were reviewed in this </span> <span style="line-height:200%;">cross-sectional </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us" style="line-height:200%;">study. Patients divided into two groups according to age at operation.
The surgery which was performed at 18 months of age and later has been defined
as “late” orchiopexy. Mean age at orchiopexy was investigated and results were
discussed by comparing with other similar studies. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <b>Results: </b> </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">The
mean age of 353 patients enrolled in this study was 4.9 ± 3.5 years and of them,
242 (68.5%) had late orchiopexy. According to the ‘’Research of socio-economic
development of the provinces and regions’’ report published by Ministry of
Development in 2011, Van province was <a> </a>in the group of the
most underdeveloped provinces and ranked as 75th of 81. </span> </p> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <b>Conclusion: </b> </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">Although
most of boys included in the study underwent orchiopexy at a later age than
suggested, our results were similar with other national and international
studies. Socio-economic level of
city is an important reason but there are some other factors causing the late
surgery. We think that increasing the parents’ education level and regular home
visits </span>by <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us">primary care providers will be
effective on early orchiopexy. </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <span style="font-size:.9em;">All published content in The New Journal of Urology are licensed under </span> <span style="font-size:12px;">  <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 </a> International License. </span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:200%;"> <img src="https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/journal/1455/file-manager/17351/download" style="width:70.6484px;height:24.7182px;" alt="download" /> <span style="font-size:12px;"> <br /> </span> <span lang="en-us" xml:lang="en-us"> <br /> </span> </p>}, number={2}, publisher={Ali İhsan TAŞÇI}