Background. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) has progressively acquired popularity as being the gold standard treatment for upper urinary tract lithiasis in infants since 1980. Our aim was to evaluate the outcome of ESWL for kidney stones and the use of double-J stent in infants. Material and Methods. A prospective clinical trial study performed on 50 infants with renal calculi at p...

INTRODUCTION Laparoscopic surgery is following a natural course as it decreases surgical aggression on the abdominal wall without undermining the curative and functional results. Although it is still being developed, single port surgery has meant an advance in this sense. MATERIAL AND METHODS We present the first single port laparoscopic pyelolithectomy surgery in horseshoe kidney, using conv...

The partial substitution of the ureter using a pediculated segment of the ileum is a technique used to re-establish ureteral transit and preserve the renal unit, following the resection of extensive ureteral lesions. Standard surgical procedure for an ileoureteroplasty consists of isolating an ileal duct of equal or greater length than the ureteral defect and interposing it in the urinary tract...

Introduction of retrograde flexible ureteroscopy represented a leap forward in upper urinary tract endourology. Nowadays, areas of the pyelocaliceal system accessible otherwise only by percutaneous or open surgery, can be approached in a retrograde fashion, using the anatomical pathways. The flexible ureteroscopes evolved from the limited deflectable first generation ones to the digital very ma...

OBJECTIVE Migration of objects into the urinary tract from the digestive tract has been described. Our objective is to report the case of a patient with urosepsis and late migration of toothpick from the gastrointestinal tract into the bladder. METHODS A 78 y/o male patient with uro-sepsis and hydronephrosis was admitted. The initial suspected etiological cause was obstructive ureteral lithia...

OBJECTIVE Urinary lithiasis is a common disease. The aim of the present study is to assess the knowledge regarding the diagnosis, treatment and recommendations given to patients with ureteral colic by professionals of an academic hospital. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-five physicians were interviewed about previous experience with guidelines regarding ureteral colic and how they manage patient...

The post-cholecystectomy syndrome, whose finding is always possible, apart of cases of biliary tract iatrogenic injuries (stenosis or leakages), is related to a residual cystic stump lithiasis or more often related to a synchronous main bile duct disease (lithiasis and/or oddities) that could be prevented by pre- or intra-operative cholangiography. The clinical suspect of those conditions shoul...

INTRODUCTION Due to the evolution of extracorporeal lithotripsy equipment (ESWL) and presently, the fact that most part of the equipment does not present ultrasound to localize urinary calculi, a system that allows adapting ultrasound equipment to ESWL equipment was developed, disposing only of fluoroscopy. Thus, this equipment was developed and was tested in urinary stones in canine models, to...