Endoscopic management is the preferred “treatment” modality for grade III vesicoureteric reflux with breakthrough infections in a young girl

Endoscopic subureteric injection of tissue-augmenting substances has become an alternative to long-term antibiotic prophylaxis and open surgery, in the treatment of children with vesicoureteric reflux (VUR). Successful elimination of reflux in about 80% of patients after a single injection (and in 90% after a repeat) has been achieved using non-degradable substances. young girl with grade III VUR and breakthrough infections would definitely need to undergo antireflux procedure. Endoscopic treatment would be an ideal procedure as it is a one-day surgery, with over 80% success rate, low morbidity and no long-term complications. Moreover, this form of surgery is appealing to, as well as the choice of the majority of parents.