David R. Vandersteen, MD

Clinic Locations:

• Children’s Hospital and Clinic – Minneapolis
• Duluth

Board Certifications:

• American Board of Urology
  • Pediatric Urology – Sub specialty

Education and Training:

• Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
• Internship in General Surgery: Oregon Health Sciences University  
• Residency in Urology: Oregon Health Sciences University
• Fellowship in Pediatric Urology: Mayo Clinic

Memberships:

• American Urologic Association
• Minnesota Medical Association
• Minnesota Urologic Society
• American Urologic Association, North Central Section
• Fellow, American Academy of Pediatrics
• Fellow, Society for Fetal Urology

Professional Interests:

• Congenital Anomalies of the Genitourinary System
• Vesicoureteral Reflux
• Testicular Maldescent
• Pediatric Urinary Tract Infections
• Neurourology/Urodynamics

Publications:

• Sacral neuromodulation for the dysfunctional elimination syndrome: a 10-year single-center experience with 105 consecutive children.
• Vesicoureteral reflux in children with urachal anomalies.
• Predicting renal outcomes in children with anterior urethral valves: a systematic review.
• Sacral neuromodulation in children with dysfunctional elimination syndrome: description of incisionless first stage and second stage without fluoroscopy.
• Acute renal infarction due to fungal vascular invasion in disseminated candidiasis.
• Unilateral vesicoureteral reflux: does endoscopic injection based on the cystoscopic appearance of the ureteral orifice decrease the incidence of de-novo contralateral reflux?
• Cystic dysplasia of testis associated with ectopic ureter causing chronic orchalgia.
• Sacral neuromodulation for the dysfunctional elimination syndrome: a single center experience with 20 children.
• Utility of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid injection in setting of bladder and ureteral anomalies.
• Multivariate comparison of the efficacy of intraureteral versus subtrigonal techniques of dextranomer/hyaluronic acid injection.
• Histopathological changes associated with dextranomer/hyaluronic acid injection for pediatric vesicoureteral reflux.
• Preliminary results of sacral neuromodulation in 23 children.
• Postoperative ureteral obstruction after subureteral injection of dextranomer/hyaluronic Acid copolymer.
• Single center experience with endoscopic management of vesicoureteral reflux in children.
• Neuromodulation in pediatrics.
• Urinary continence after staged bladder reconstruction for cloacal exstrophy: the effect of coexisting neurological abnormalities on urinary continence.
• Treatment of primary nocturnal enuresis persisting into adulthood.
• Late onset recurrent penile chordee after successful correction at hypospadias repair.
• Hypertension after surgical management of renal duplication associated with an upper pole ureterocele.
• Diagnosis and management of ureteroiliac artery fistula: value of provocative arteriography followed by common iliac artery embolization and extraanatomic arterial bypass grafting.
• Surgical management of persistent müllerian duct syndrome.