Dr. Douglas E Coplen MD
Urologist (Pediatric) | Pediatric Urology
1 Childrens Pl Suite A Saint Louis MO, 63110Rating
4/5
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Dr. Douglas Coplen practices Pediatric Urology in Saint Louis, MO. 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. Coplen is a surgeon who diagnoses, treats, and manages voiding disorders, vesicoureteral reflux, and urinary tract infections that require surgery. Some procedures that Dr. Coplen 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
In Univ Sch of Med, Indianapolis In 1985
IU Health University Hospital Indianapolis Health Science
Indiana University School of Medicine 1985
Board Certification
UrologyAmerican Board of UrologyABU- Pediatric Urology
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Management of the neonatal ureterocele.
- Vesicoureteral reflux and clinical outcomes in infants with prenatally detected hydronephrosis.
- The effect of health care coverage on circumcision rates among newborns.
- Outcome analysis of prenatally detected ureteroceles associated with multicystic dysplasia.
- Inhibition of mitogenic signaling and induction of apoptosis in human bladder smooth muscle cells treated with doxazosin.
- Transforming growth factor-beta1-induced hypertrophy and matrix expression in human bladder smooth muscle cells.
- The type and frequency of fetal renal disorders and management of renal pelvis dilatation.
- Prenatal diagnosis and neonatal management of congenital urethral diverticulum.
- Enuresis and dysfunctional elimination.
- The incidence of disorders of sexual differentiation and chromosomal abnormalities of cryptorchidism and hypospadias stratified by meatal location.
- Combination therapy with desmopressin and an anticholinergic medication for
- Efficacy and safety of transdermal and oral oxybutynin in children with neurogenic detrusor overactivity.
- Editorial comment.
- Do we need more rigorous standards for validation of new technology?
- The efficacy of oral midazolam for decreasing anxiety in children undergoing voiding cystourethrogram: a randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study.
Treatments
- Genitourinary Surgery (urologic Surgery)
- Urinary Incontinence
- Birth Defects
- Hernia
- Interstitial Cystitis
- Urinary Tract Infection (uti)
- Inguinal Hernia
Fellowships
- Pediatric Urology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1994
- NIH Oncology Training Grant, Barnes Hospital, St Louis, Missouri 1990
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