Rev Assoc Med Bras 2009; 2010; 56(1): 723-8 *Correspondence: Rua Barata Ribeiro, No 490 Sala 25 – Bela Vista São Paulo – Sp, Brazil Cep: 01309-000 AbstrACt Objective. To review developments in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary lithiasis. MethOds. A review of the most important articles on the subject published in Medline indexed periodicals between 1979 and 2009. Results. Stones occur with...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical efficiency and safety of ureteroscopy lithotripsy (URSL) with holmium laser technology and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) on ureteral calculi using systematic reviews. METHODS Randomized controlled trials and prospective controlled trials accorded with inclusion among PubMed Database, EmBase Database, Cochrane Library and China National Knowled...

INTRODUCTION We evaluated the effect of the presence of a double J stent on the efficacy of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in the treatment of lumbar ureteral stones. MATERIAL AND METHODS Between January 2007 and February 2012, we performed a retrospective cohort study. Forty-four patients were treated by ESWL for lumbar ureteral stones and included into two groups for the analy...

The collaborate studies of clinical application of Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) using Sonolith 2000, performed at Departments of Urology of Nara Medical University, the University of Tokai School of Medicine and Wakayama Medical College between March and August 1987, were reported. In total 155 ESWL sessions were carried out on 111 patients suffering from in total 119 upper urin...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS To compare extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) and laser induced shock wave lithotripsy (LISL) of retained bile duct stones to stone free rate, number of therapeutic sessions, and costs. PATIENTS Thirty four patients were randomly assigned to either ESWL or LISL therapy. The main reasons for failure of standard endoscopy were due to stone impaction (n = 12), bilia...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether skin-to-stone distance (SSD), which remains controversial in patients with ureter stones, can be a predicting factor for one session success following extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in patients with upper ureter stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 1,519 patients who underwent their first ESWL between J...

PURPOSE To access the effect of repeated extracorporeal shock wave (ESW) on urinary biochemical markers METHODS 20 rats were assigned for ESW (Direx Tripter X1(R) - 14 KV) to one of two groups: G1 (n=10) one ESW; G2 (n=10) two ESWs within a 14-day interval. Within the twenty-four hour period before and after the application of shock waves, the animals were placed in metabolic cages for 24 hou...

Between October 1990 and April 1996, we treated 892 upper urinary tract stones with ESWL therapy using Lithostar (Siemens Medizinische Technik, Erlangen, Germany). In March 1993, the coupling head of lithotriptor was upgraded from "standard-tube" to "C-tube". The C-tube has approximately two times or more destructive energy and intensity than the standard-tube. In this study, we analyzed the cl...

Objectives: The aim of the study was to evaluate the results of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) using the Sonolith R vision Lithotripter for urinary stones. Patients and methods: From July 2005 to September 2008, 463 patients including 451 Saudi and 12 Non-Saudi patients, 62% males and 38% females aged 18-93 (mean 56.32 years) underwent ESWL treatment for solitary urinary stones at...