key articles
Current percutaneous nephrolithotomy using intracorporeal techniques in a UK centre
Friday, 11 June 2010- The treatment of complex renal stones remains challenging for surgeons using percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL). A number of contemporary accessory techniques can help improve stone clearance allowing a...
Edited by: JV
Diet soda for preventing kidney stones?
Wednesday, 19 May 2010- Certain diet sodas may have the potential to prevent the most common type of kidney stone, if new lab research is correct.
In the study, researchers found that the diet versions of several popular...
Edited by: ES
Long-term treatment of renal lithiasis with potassium citrate
Friday, 7 May 2010- A study conducted by researchers in Argentina evaluated the urine metabolic changes induced by sustained potassium citrate (KCit) treatment in patients with either hypocitraturia (HCit) or “unduly acidic...
Edited by: JV
Efficacy of tamsulosin for distal ureteric calculus
Wednesday, 24 March 2010- A group of Indian researchers conducted a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of medical expulsive therapy (MET) with tamsulosin.
T.J. Nirmal and...
Edited by: JV
PCNL with holmium laser and ultrasound lithotripsy for complex kidney stones
Friday, 19 March 2010- A group of researchers from Shanghai, China, conducted a study to validate the clinical efficacy of the high-power holmium:YAG laser with percutaneous nephrolithotripsy (PCNL) in combination with ultrasound...
Edited bÿ: JV
Study recommends removing ureteral stone fragments
Thursday, 11 February 2010- During semirigid ureteroscopy with holmium laser lithotripsy, retrieving all stone fragments leads to better outcomes than allowing them to pass spontaneously, according to a paper published online...
Edited by: ES
Management of stone disease in pregnancy
Thursday, 4 February 2010- Nephrolithiasis is a not infrequent complication of pregnancy. The occurrence of a stone event in a pregnant woman is a complex situation. Semins and colleagues reviewed the management of stone disease...
Edited by: JV
Family history in stone disease: links to disease onset and recurrence
Tuesday, 26 January 2010- A group of researchers from Turkey evaluated the possible effect of a positive family history on the age at the onset of urinary stone disease and the frequency of subsequent symptomatic episodes...
Edited by: JV
Comparing the invasiveness of PCNL and mini-PCNL
Friday, 9 October 2009- A group of researchers in China examined the systemic response to percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) and mini-PCNL (MPCNL) and evaluated whether MPCNL is less invasive than PCNL, as experimental studies...
Edited by: JV
Failure after shockwave lithotripsy: is outcome machine dependent?
Wednesday, 23 September 2009- British researchers investigated the issue of shockwave lithotripsy failure by studying the effect of machine crossover to the Technomed Sonolith Vision (TSV) lithotriptor in patients with...
Edited by: JV
