OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to assess the safety and effectiveness of ureteroscopy and Holmium: Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet lithotripsy for the treatment of ureteral stones with different localizations in symptomatic pregnant women. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on 19 pregnant patients referred to our center between January 2005 and December 2012 with symptomatic hydrone...

inquiry as to the methods used by Indian Surgeons in doing lithotomy, and their experience of lithotrity. In this way he collected statistics of 1,585 cases of lithotomy at different ages with an average mortality of 1 in 6. It is stated that in the opinion of many Surgeons in India " lithotomy will, in all probability, never be supplanted by lithotrity." This opinion was based upon the followi...

These considerations in favour of lithotomy are not put forward in any spirit of prejudice to litholapaxy, but rather as an attempt at an explanation why lithotomy is still so largely performed in India. The impression of modern literature is that lithotomy is seldom necessary and seldom performed. This surely cannot be the case in the practice of surgeons in India. In very contradiction to thi...

Indore Hospital. On 13 of these cases SurgeonMajor Caldecott performed litholapaxy, and from one boy aged ten, whose urethra was very small, he extracted a phosphatic stone weighing 577 grains by lateral lithotomy. Surgeon-Major Cahlecott's cases were all successful. Since my return from leave to the preseut date, 27 patients, including 2 females, have been admitted into hospital suffering from...

The patient was a 58-year-old man with a long-standing history of alcohol abuse and chronic pancreatitis leading to multiple hospitalizations. He continued to have pain despite conservative management, pain control, and alcohol cessation. His chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic duct (PD) stones resulted in a tight PD stricture at the head of the pancreas. Multiple prior attempts at conventional...

BACKGROUND Renal stone disease is a significant and worldwide health problem. Recent advances in stone management have allowed kidney stones to be treated using extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL), uretero-renoscopy (URS), and percutaneous nephrostolithotomy (PCNL). Recently, medical expulsion therapy (MET) has been investigated as a supplement to observation in an effort to improve sp...

BACKGROUND Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) is the management of choice for renal stones 20 mm or smaller, with a stone clearance rate of up to 89%. The purpose of the present is to investigate the efficacy of a commercialised ESWL service, being performed as an outsourced treatment using a mobile lithotripsy system on an outpatient basis. Furthermore, the study aims to evaluate the ...

The introduction of shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) in the early 1980's revolutionized the surgical management for kidney stone disease. Since then, although numerous 2 and 3 r generation lithotripters have been developed using various means for shock wave generation, focusing, patient coupling and stone localization, the technical improvements in these devices were largely made based on practical...