Flexible ureterorenoscopy in position or fusion anomaly: Is it feasible?

Flexible ureterorenoscopy in position or fusion anomaly: Is it feasible?

OBJECTIVE To analyze the results of flexible ureterorenoscopy (F-URS) with holmium laser in the treatment of kidney stones with ectopic and fusion anomalies (horseshoe kidney and rotation anomalies). METHOD We reviewed data from 13 patients with fusion and ectopic renal anomalies that underwent F-URS from April 2011 to April 2017. We analyzed demographic and clinical data (age, gender, BMI, a...

Is It Feasible or Desirable?

During the past decade, advances in device technology (eg, drug-eluting stents), development of safer anticoagulants (eg, bivalirudin), and refinement in procedural techniques have led to a dramatic improvement in the effectiveness and safety of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), despite increasing clinical and anatomic complexity of treated patients.1 As safety and effectiveness have be...

Beach chair position: is it really feasible in laparoscopic procedures?

To the Editor:—In the November 2007 issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Valenza et al. described how they used the application of positive end-expiratory pressure and the beach chair position to counteract the respiratory derangements in morbidly obese patients undergoing laparoscopic gastric surgery. The authors state that although both the beach chair position and the addition of positive end-expiratory...

Novel technologies in flexible ureterorenoscopy☆

Since its first description over 20 years ago, ureteroscopy has progressed from an awkward diagnostic procedure with limited visualisation to a precise, complex surgical intervention allowing access to the entire collecting system. With advances in flexible ureterorenoscopy (fURS), retrograde intrarenal surgery has become a reality. However, acceptance and widespread use of this new technology ...

HIV Eradication: Is it Feasible?