Meta-analysis reveals a significantly increased risk only in male patients. Patients with stones smaller than 7 mm are more likely have a successful treatment than those with larger stones, ...
March 27, 2009 (Stockholm, Sweden) — Slowing the shockwave delivery rate from 100 to 70 shocks per minute reduced the cost of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) by 50%, with no diminution in ...
Researchers at Children’s Hospital in Boston recently published a study in the Journal of Urology (2012;187:1402-1407) showing that the proportion of pediatric kidney stone cases treated with ...
This open-label, prospective study enrolled patients with a single radiopaque renal stone measuring 5–20 mm. Patients were randomly assigned to extracorporeal SWL alone, or to extracorporeal SWL with ...
Shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) for pediatric patients leads to less pain and fewer abnormal urinary symptoms after recovery than the widely used ureteroscopy (URS) procedure, according to research ...
Credit: Getty Images. A recent study may support use of tamsulosin as medical expulsion therapy following shockwave lithotripsy. Tamsulosin may be effective as medical expulsive therapy for patients ...
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