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Lifestyle factors may play an important role in the pathogenesis of stone formation |
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Recently, overweight was identified to be a crucial risk factor for stone formation. Analysis of 527 idiopathic calcium oxalate stone formers showed that 59 percent of the men and 44 percent of the women were overweight or obese. The median number of total stone episodes was higher in overweight or obese versus normal weight men but not in women. The risk of stone formation computed as relative super saturation for calcium oxalate was higher in overweight and obese compared to normal weight patients.
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URS and ESWL - complementary treatments for ureteric stones
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ESWL and URS remain the two primary treatment modalities for the management of symptomatic ureteric calculi. With respect to proximal ureteric stones, no genuine RCT’s exist. In a recent published prospective patient-preference trial in patients with 5-10 mm stones in the proximal ureter there was no statistically significant difference in stone free rate between ESWL and URS, although URS tended to make patients stone free faster (p=0.06).
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The low-invasiveness of ESWL combined with its high success rate |
| When the EAU and AUA expert panel had reviewed the recent literature on the management of patients with urolithiasis, the concluding statement was that both Electro-Shockwave Lithotripsy (ESWL) and ureteronoscopy (URS) were acceptable first-line treatment alternatives
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Flexible ureterorenoscopy: Surely it can’t replace SWL/PNL?!
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| During the past two decades, ureterorenoscopy (URS) has dramatically changed the management of ureteral calculi and is extensively used in many urological centres all over the world. Major improvements were made especially in the area of flexible URS, that offers minimally-invasive removal of stones from the proximal ureter and the kidney.
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Technical exhibition was opened this morning |
| With today's traditional ribbon-cut ceremony profs. Vincenzo Mirone (Congress President), Per-Anders Abrahamsson (EAU Secretary General), Patrizio Rigatti (Congress President) and Walter Artibani (EAU adjunct Secretary General and Congress President) opened the technical exhibition in hall 5 of the MIC.
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Rolf Ackermann received the Frans Debruyne Lifetime Achievement Award |
| The Frans Debruyne Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to German urologist and former chairman of the Department of Urology at the University of Düsseldorf, prof. Rolf Ackermann. The award was handed out by prof. Per-Anders Abrahamsson, Secretary-General of the EAU. Ackermann, born in 1941 in Ulm, was President of the German Society of Urology in 1995/96. One year later he became a member of the academy of the EAU.
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Prof. Francesco Pagano received the Willy Gregoir Medal 2008 |
| The Willy Gregoir Medal 2008 is presented to an elder statesman of Italian urology, Prof. Francesco Pagano from Padova, Italy. Born in 1932 in Pace de Mela (Messina), Pagano became chief of Department of Urology at Brescia City Hospital in 1976.
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A new milestone in the Chinese urological history - the first EAU-CUA joint session at the EAU annual congressg |
| This year we witnessed the first joint-session of the European Association Urology (EAU) and the Chinese Urological Association (CUA) at the 2008 EAU annual congress held on 26 March in Milan, Italy.
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