However, it is plausible that nonobstructing kidney stones may still cause pain. We performed a multicenter, observational trial to evaluate whether treatment of small nonobstructing calyceal stones improves pain and kidney stone鈥搒pecific health-related quality of life. Patients aged 18 years or ...
Strictly speaking, endoluminal stone removal control failed in only that patient, yielding a negative predictive value of 97%. A routine postoperative CT scan would thus appear unnecessary in the case of negative endoscopic control for residual fragments and should be avoided to reduce radiation ...
Muscle mass can be regarded as an important factor in determining the extent of stone removal for a short period. The results of blood and urine tests showed a generally low feature ranking. Among them, hemoglobin, glomerular filtration rate, and platelet count were judged to give a little ...
Though radical nephroureterectomy (RNU) with bladder cuff removal is the standard treatment of UTUC patients, the tumors were found to be invasive at diagnosis in 60% of cases [2]. The disease recurrence in the bladder or non-bladder sites is frequent [3]. Many studies have focused on ...
The size, location, and density of the stone influence the choice of treatment [3, 4]. Over the past 20 years, fURS have dramatically changed the management of kidney stones and has become the most performed procedure for the removal and destruction of kidney stones. More than 40,000 fURS...
I had galdstone removal surgery about 4 months ago and thought I was doing the rite thing at the time.While I was in recovery my urine was bloody and I couldn't understand what was going on,I was told a catheder was used.Everyone I have talked to since said no such thing was done...
(ThuLEP), transperineal template prostate biopsies for the diagnosis of prostate cancer, penoscrotal surgery, and surgical and laser removal of kidney stones. He has performed over 1,000 laser stone surgeries, over 1,500 laser prostate surgeries and over 4,000 transperineal template prostate ...
145 While there are no standard criteria for the timing of mediastinal drain removal, evidence suggests that they can be safely removed as soon as the drainage becomes macroscopically serous.154 Based on these clinical trials, maintenance of chest tube patency without breaking the sterile field is ...
Bergenfelz, A., Norden, N.E., Ahren, B.: Intraoperative fall in plasma levels of intact parathyroid hormone after removal of one enlarged parathyroid gland in hyperparathyroid patients. Eur. J. Surg.157:109, 1991 PubMed Google Scholar Brown, E.M., Wilson, R.E., Thatcher, J.G.: Ab...
ureter stone was only a significant risk indicator of renal deterioration, when accompanied by removal of the stone, can be explained by the difference in size of the stone or the fact that removal of a stone is more likely to be carried out if the stone is accompanied by renal ...