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ESWL treatment of urinary calculi
J R Drago1, J A Nesbitt, J J Smith
1Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus.
Urology
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
A total of 711 patients with symptomatic upper and lower urinary tract calculi underwent extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) at the Ohio Kidney Stone Center during the first six months. At follow-up 84 percent of the first 180 patients are stone-free. Retreatment was required for 2.8 percent of the patients with residual stone material. Thirty-seven percent of the treatments required cystoscopy with ureteral stent placement for manipulation of stones or delineation of distal ureteral anatomy to facilitate ESWL. Complications were minimal at less than 3 percent.