PURPOSE With decreased physical activity, growing sedentary lifestyle, and high fat diet, obesity has become a pandemic disease all over the world. In this review, we aim to assess the effect of obesity on prone percutaneous nephrolithotomy.(PNL) outcomes. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a comprehensive review of the published articles in PubMed®, Medline, Scopus, Cochrane database fro...

You have accessJournal of UrologySurgical Technology & Simulation: Instrumentation II (PD41)1 Sep 2021PD41-05 INITIAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE OF MINI-PERCUTANEOUS NEPHROLITHOTOMY (PCNL) WITH URETEROSCOPIC (URS) LITHOTRIPSY AND SYNCHRONOUS PERCUTANEOUS EVACUATION FRAGMENTS USING A STEERABLE SUCTION DEVICE Mihir Desai, Abhishek Singh, Arvind Ganpule, Ravindra sabnis, Mahesh and Jaime Landman DesaiMih...

Objective: To report our experience of over 500 patients treated with Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) at a tertiary as well secondary Care hospital. Despite PCNL's early success minimally invasive treatment option, its popularity has waned after the advent extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL). Over time, however, urologists were forced to rethink role PCNL in Urolithiasis clinical ES...

Abstract. The present study aimed to assess the effectiveness and safety of mini-percutaneous nephrolithotomy (mPNL) in comparison with standard percutaneous (sPNL) for treatment complex nephrolithiasis.
 Methods. During period from 2012 2020, 1021 patients solitary (10.0-30.0 mm), staghorn multiple renal calculi were retrospectively divided into two groups: sPNL (500 patients) mPNL (521 p...