SURGICAL stentsURETEROSCOPYThis letter to the editor responds to a study on renal function after bilateral flexible ureteroscopy (fURS) for kidney stones. The authors of the letter agree with the study's conclusion that patient selection and shorter surgery times are important in preventing acute ...
Stents left in for prolonged periods (either intentionally or forgotten) are uncommon and lead to encrustation.Patients rarely manifest the classical symptoms of ureteral obstruction due to the denervation of kidney graft.Common presentations are recurrent UTIs, decrease in urine output, progressive decli...
Purpose: To evaluate the effect of JJ stents on SWL treatment of moderate (15-25mm) renal pelvic stones. Materials and methods: Between January 2016 and December 2017, a total of 152 adult patients who were planned to undergo SWL for a single radiopaque renal pelvic stone were included in ...
- 《Iranian Journal of Kidney Diseases》 被引量: 13发表: 2012年 Comparison between Tubeless Mini-Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy versus Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery for the Treatment of 2 to 3cm Renal Lithiasis Purpose: To assess the outcome and safety of tubeless mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mini-...
This presentation was part of a planned debate on the following topic: Resolved: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy monotherapy is the preferred mode of treatment for large renal calculi and staghorn stones. Editors and Affiliations Institute for Kidney Stone Disease, Methodist Hospital of Indiana, ...
Kidney-ureter-bladder (KUB) X-ray: flat plane X-ray of abdomen. ID size, position of kidney/urinary tract. Renal masses or calculi. ID location of indwelling devices, ex. Stents.Intravenous pyelogram (IVP): Contrast dye then X-ray taken as dye moves in renal system. CT scans usually ...
Examples include cystoscopy to remove the ureterovesical stent that is routinely placed during transplantation in many departments, percutaneous nephrostomy for obstructive hydronephrosis or pyonephrosis, and treatment for graft kidney stones—via ureteroscopy or percutaneous access. Stone removal treatment is...
mini-perc; kidney lithiasis; minimally invasive nephrolithotomy 1. Introduction Kidney stones, an entity known to humanity since antiquity, challenged the imagination of both doctors and general population in the quest for finding better diagnostic methods and better treatments. By better, we generally ...
Where can kidney stone be found? What are risk factors for developing kidney stones? Signs and symptoms of kidney stones? What are the nursing interventions in caring for a patient with kidney stones? What are common medical treatments used in the treatment of kidney stones? A serious complica...
KIDNEY pelvisKIDNEY stonesURINARY organsObjective: To determine whether dynamic renal scans 鈥 DTPA or MAG3 鈥 routinely performed after flexible ureteroscopies (f-URS) could detect the development of an obstruction and thus promote prompt early intervention for kidney preserva...