Dr. John H. Makari MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
282 Washington St Suite 2e Hartford CT, 06106About
Dr. John Makari practices Pediatric Urology in Hartford, CT. Pediatric urologists treat young patients who suffer from an illness or disease of the genitals or urinary tract, including the kidneys, ureters, bladder. As a pediatric urologist, Dr. Makari is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Makari performs include surgical reconstruction of the urinary tract, hypospadias, and disorders of sex development; surgery for groin conditions in childhood; evaluation and surgical management of kidney stone disease; and surgical management of tumors and malignancies of the kidney, bladder, and testis.
Education and Training
The Ohio State University College of Medicine MD
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Evaluation of superficial bladder transitional-cell carcinoma by optical coherence tomography.
- Pediatric urologic oncology: organ-sparing surgery in kidney and testis.
- The need for additional procedures in patients undergoing proximal hypospadias repairs as reported in the pediatric health information system database.
- Oncology: the role of partial nephrectomy in Wilms tumor.
- Paratesticular inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a pediatric patient.
- Objective pain assessment after ureteral reimplantation: comparison of open versus robotic approach.
- Future directions in risk stratification and therapy for advanced pediatric genitourinary rhabdomyosarcoma.
Treatments
- Problems with Urination
- Wetting (Day and Night)
- Nuerogenic Bladder
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Abnormal urination
- Urinary Frequency
- Painful Urination
- Spina Bifida
- Blood in the Urine
- Prenatal diagnosis of urinary obstructions (hydronephrosis)
- Stones in Urinary Tract
- Disorders of Sexual differntiation (Intersex disorders)
- Kidney (cystic kidney diseases, malformations, obstructions)
- Tumors and cancer (absent kidney, duplication anomalies, horshoe kidney, hydronephrosis, pelvic kidney, reflux, stones)
- Ureters (blockages, duplication anomalies, hydronephrosis, megaureters, reflux, stones, stictures)
- Bladder (diverticulum, exstrophy and epispadias, obstruction, reflux, tumors and cancer)
- Penis (abnormal development, abnormal urinary stream, adhesions, chordee, circumcision, epispadias, hidden penis, hypospadias, injury, meatal stenosis, micropenis, newborn cicumcision, phimosis, webbed penis)
- Testis and groin (absent testis, epididymitis, hernias, hydroceles, infections, retractile testes, spermatoceles, pain, torsion, undescended, varicoceles)
- Female Genital Disorders (abnormal development, labial adhesions, urinary and genital birth defects)
- And more
- Trauma/Injury to any part of the urogenital system
Experience & Accolades
- ResidencyGeorge Washington University
Dr. John H. Makari MD's Practice location
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