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... Ureteroscopy PCNL Lithotripsy With a global incidence of around 10%, urolithiasis and its management is becoming a major healthcare issue [ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ]. Technological advances have resulted in ever increasing treatment options, enabling us to achieve improved stone-free rates and offering our...

... be multifactorial and sepsis can be one of the causes. As in the current study, it can be one of the earliest markers of sepsis. Post PCNL SIRS is common and has the potential to progress to life-threatening sepsis in a minority of patients. Younger patients with positive renal pelvic or stone culture...

...Kun Wang; Peijin Zhang; Xianlin Xu; Min Fan Objective: To assess the safety and efficacy of ultrasonographic vs. fluoroscopic access for percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). Methods: Medline (PubMed), Embase, Ovid, Cochrane, and the Chinese Biomedical Literature databases were searched to identify...