LithoVue™: A new single-use digital flexible ureteroscope

Over the last 20 years new technologies have emerged in urology, while there has been an increase in the incidence of kidney stone disease with growing use of flexible ureteroscopy [1]. In 2004 Gyrus ACMI introduced the first totally digital flexible ureteroscopic system, the DUR-D Invisio platform [2]. This was a watershed moment as all the major companies began producing digital flexible ureteroscopes from that moment forward with an improved armamentarium available for the urologist [3]. In October 2015 Boston Scientific introduced the LithoVueTM. This is the first single-use flexible ureteroscope developed to access the upper urinary tract.