...Niklas Westhoff; Alexey Anokhin; Paul Patroi; Manuel Neuberger; Fabian Siegel; Daniel Pfalzgraf Introduction: Screening for and treating asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU) or administering antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended during ureteral stent and nephrostomy interventions. This study investigates...

... for renal stones between June 2012 and June 2014 were evaluated retrospectively. Patients were divided into 2 groups based on JJ stent placements. Group 1 did not receive JJ stents, while group 2 did. The recorded demographic data for each group included age, gender, stone size, location, sessions...

...Sergej E.L. Staubli; Livio Mordasini; Daniel Stephan Engeler; Rafael Sauter; Hans-Peter Schmid; Dominik Abt Objective: To assess the economic burden of temporary ureteral stenting. Methods: The German version of the ureteral stent symptom questionnaire was completed by 74 patients with unilateral...

...Haluk Söylemez; Ahmet Ali Sancaktutar; Yaşar Bozkurt; Murat Atar; Necmettin Penbegül; Kadir Yildirim Objective: To describe a cheap, minimally painful and widely usable method for retrieving ureteral stents by using an ureteroscope. Subjects and Methods: Sixty-seven patients with ureteral stents...

...Maxime Robert; Anne-Marie Boularan; Marwan El Sandid; Daniel Grasset Objective: To evaluate the crystalline composition of encrustations on double-J ureteric stents in order to prevent their formation on the base of urolithiasis prophylaxis. Patients: 40 patients had a polyurethane double-J...

...Ch. Deliveliotis; S. Ginanakopoulos; G. Louras; G. Koutsokalis; G. Alivizatos; A. Kostakopoulos In this study, we treated patients with a solitary distal ureteral stone of less than 10 mm in maximum diameter by placing a double-pigtail stent and subsequently removing it allowing the calculus...

.... Material and Methods: The series comprised of 500 patients. All underwent extravesical ureteroneocystostomy and all except a few initial patients were stented. Results: There were 92 complications in 82 patients (18.4%). Urinary leakage occurred in 1.2%. There were no intrinsic ureteric obstructions...

... by insertion of a second inner Porges Urethrospiral-2 stent inside the first one. 5 6 1998 Urethral stricture Urethral obstruction Stents 1998 Copyright / Drug Dosage / Disclaimer Copyright: All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be translated into other languages...