We developed a prototype apparatus for microexplosion lithotripsy in the urinary bladder according to our original idea. A model calculus in a pig bladder was successfully crushed by the apparatus and was removed by aspiration.

BACKGROUND Sub-acute left-sided bacterial endocarditis is a serious condition that may present with variable clinical manifestations. Its symptoms include both sterile and infected emboli, and various immunological phenomena. CASE REPORT This report presents a 55 year old man with frequency and dysuria after a lithotripsy and several admissions with urosepsis. Due to the suspicion of infectiv...

J. Al-Nabulsi, H. Amasha, B. Altrabsheh, B. Al-Naami Biomedical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) employs high-energy shock waves that propagate through the body and focus on th reak it into small grains, which travel out of the body along with the urine. The distance between lithotripsy longdes tends...

A 69-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of hepatic failure after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. The diagnosis of urinary tract infection and fungemia due to Candida albicans associated with decompensated liver cirrhosis and renal failure was made. Bilateral endogenous endophthalmitis developed during hospitalization. Candidemia, endophthalmitis and hepatorenal failure imp...

Shock waves as high energy acoustic are generated from underwater explosion with voltage condition in shockwave generator. The physical characteristics of a rapid positive peak pressure and negative that propagates rapidly through the body tissue. wave was primarily used to treat lithotripsy (kidney stone) by outside technique (called extracorporeal lithotripsy: ESWL). application shock has bee...

Introduction: Our aim was to compare transureteral lithotripsy (TUL) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) in the management of upper ureteral calculi larger than 5 mm in diameter. Materials and Methods: Patients who had upper ureteral calculi between 5 mm and 10 mm in diameter were enrolled in this clinical trial. The calculi had not responded to conservative or symptomatic therapy. ...

PURPOSE Management of ureteral stones remains controversial. To determine whether optimizing the extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy delivery rate would improve the treatment of solitary ureteral stones we compared the outcomes of 2 delivery rates in a prospective randomized trial. MATERIALS AND METHODS From July 2010 to October 2012, 254 consecutive patients were randomized to extracorpore...

Efficacy and safety of pulsed dye laser lithotripsy was tested in 25 consecutive patients in whom bile duct stones could not be extracted after endoscopic sphincterotomy. The patients had one to six (mean, 1.8) bile duct stones (diameter, 10-35 mm; mean, 18 mm) located in the common bile duct (18 cases), the intrahepatic bile ducts (6 cases), or in a long cystic duct stump (1 case). Different a...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacy of ureteroscopic pneumatic lithotripsy (URS) and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) in the treatment of lower ureteric stones in terms of stone-free rates. STUDY DESIGN Randomized trial. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Urology, Government Institute of Kidney Diseases and Transplant, Hayatabad, Peshawar, from September 2010 to March 2011....

OBJECTIVE To assess the safety and efficacy of using a stone cone and an entrapment and extraction device (N-Trap®, Cook Urological, Bloomington, IN, USA) to avoid stone retropulsion during ureteroscopic lithotripsy for ureteric stones. PATIENTS AND METHODS This retrospective comparative study included 436 patients treated with ureteroscopic lithotripsy for a single ureteric stone from Februa...