... Endourology Flexible ureteroscopy Urolithiasis Lithotripsy Flexible ureteroscopy (f-URS) lithotripsy is a primary surgical technique utilized for treating 1- to 2-cm renal stones [ 1‒3 ]. Assessment and control of intrarenal pressure (IRP) during f-URS presents substantial challenges...

... lithotripsy with SODD for the treatment of ureteral calculi from March 2020 to September 2021 in Yueyang People’s Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Yueyang People’s Hospital’s committee on human research, approval number: 2020–23. Patients were...

...Kai Zhang; Wei Yan; Hongbo Li; Jie Chen; Qian Wang; Yali Chai; Lihua Yuan; Gang Zhu Introduction: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of mirabegron plus tamsulosin to tamsulosin monotherapy in terms of ureteral stent-related discomfort after ureteroscopic lithotripsy. Methods: A total...

...Yuxiang Hong; Hao Lin; Qingtao Yang; Derong Zhou; Gaoming Hou; Xiaohong Chen; Junhong Zheng Background and Objective: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy and reliability of holmium (Ho:YAG) laser lithotripsy (HLL) and pneumatic lithotripsy (PL) in percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL...

...Zhong-Hua Wu; Tong-Zu Liu; Xing-Huan Wang; Yong-Zhi Wang; Hang Zheng; Yin-Gao Zhang; Xin-Hua Zhang Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe a novel negative-pressure laser lithotripsy device to overcome the deficiencies of the conventional procedure. Patients and Methods: Between August...

...Tao Bai; Xi Yu; Cong Qin; Tao Xu; Hao Shen; Lei Wang; Xiuheng Liu Objective: To report the incidence and risk factors of urosepsis after ureteroscopic lithotripsy (URSL). Patients and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 1,421 patients who underwent URSL for ureteral calculi between July 2015...

... surgery time was 74 min (range 38–124, SD 24.28), and lithotripsy was necessary in 33 cases. CT was performed 5.4 weeks afterwards (range 4–8, SD 1.43). One patient had a 2 mm residual which was extracted by URS. Strictly speaking, endoluminal stone removal control failed in only that patient, yielding...

...Diomidis G. Kozyrakis; Zisis K. Kratiras; Stefanos K. Perikleous; Anastasios P. Zarkadas; Styliani-Elissavet E. Chatzistamoy; Dimitrios K. Karagiannis; Ioannis T. Solinis Purpose: To present the results and complications of retrograde ureteroscopic lithotripsy for treatment of large ureteral stones...

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...). Total interventions have increased from 28,624 to 42,068, with increased rates of shock wave lithotripsy (26%), ureteroscopy (URS; 86%) and percutaneous nephrolithotomy (149%). Emergency URS procedures have increased by 38%. Day-case rates for ureteric and renal URS, in 2013/2014, were 22 and 21...

...Mehmet Resit Goren; Vinil Goren; Cevahir Ozer Background/Aims/Objectives: To evaluate the outcomes and ionizing radiation (IR) exposure of children with cystine stones (CS) using different shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) guidance modalities. Methods: Data from pediatric patients with renal stones...

... TUCL at the 4th week postoperatively after the conservative therapy and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy treatment had failed. The stone-free rate in group 2 was 100%, there was no bladder stone recurrence in the two groups on ultrasound surveillance during the follow-up. Fig. 1 Process...

... screened and 15 studies were identified reporting on 116 procedures. The surgical methods of stone management employed were stone extraction with basket only (n = 55, 47%), laser fragmentation (n = 27, 23%; holmium, n = 20, pulse dye, n = 7), impact lithotripsy (n = 21, 18%), ureteroscopic lithotripsy (n...

...Ayman Kassem; Hany ElFayoumy; Wael ElSaied; Mohamed ElGammal; Ahmed Bedair Objective: We compared the results of holmium laser and pneumatic intracorporeal lithotripsy for large ureteric calculi in terms of efficacy, safety and complications. Methods: The study was conducted between April 2009...

...Vipan Bhatia; Chandra Shekhar Biyani We report 8 patients with urolithiasis in a duplex system. These patients (7 males and 1 female) underwent 16 extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) treatments. Five had renal and 3 had ureteral stones. The mean stone size was 21 mm (12–54 mm). Five...

...Prem Nath Dogra; Narendra A. Jadeja We report a case of urosepsis and multiple ureteric strictures following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for recurrent renal stones. The multiple ureteric strictures required ileal ureteral replacement. 8 04 1993 2 09 1993 3 2 2010 ©...

... Shockwave lithotripsy using the overhead table module of the Lithostar Plus. The technical ease of lithotripsy using an on-line ultrasound module in these ‘ectopically’ placed kidneys is discussed. The effect of Shockwaves on allograft function was studied by a pre- and postrenal scan ( 99 Tc-DTPA...

... was 100% when the stone could be approached irrespective of size or composition, and no complication was encountered. Lithoclast Lithotripsy Urinary calculi © 1995 S. Karger AG, Basel 1995 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may...

...L. Baert; H. Claes; I. Billiet; M. D’;Hallewin; H. Vandeursen; H. Van Poppel A total of 600 patients underwent 696 treatments of extracorporeal Shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) during the period between June and November 1987. Our progressively increasing experience with the second-generation device...