Urinary Tract Dilations in Prenatal and Postnatal Life

Currently, in Slovakia, a multidisciplinary standard of health care for patients with dilation of the urinary tract is not present. Prenatal diagnosis of anomalies of the urinary system includes the entire spectrum of anomalies, genetic diseases or anatomical deviations, which have a non-uniform classification and different terminology in a wide range of literature. Therefore, prenatal diagnosis of these anomalies, as well as dilation diseases of the urinary tract, in different centers is different, often subjective and outdated. However, some findings on the urinary tract, even with regard to the sex of the fetus, require great attention, defining the degree of severity and precisely targeted management, the task of which is to prevent serious complications in postnatal life. Dilative diseases of the urinary tract may not be clinically obvious after birth, but in the long term, if they are not detected, serious and irreversible kidney damage may occur. The goals of this study are therefore 1. to confuse the current situation in the multidisciplinary medical sector regarding the issue of dilations of the urinary tract; 2. in the conducted study to identify fetuses with such a degree of dilation of the urinary tract (according to the UTD classification from 2014) that requires stricter management in the prenatal and postnatal period and which are at high risk of surgical intervention postnatally and 3. subsequently create a model of health care for multidisciplinary cooperation for a patient with dilation of the urinary tract.