Background The use of visual aids to enhance patient learning is becoming increasingly common in medicine.Patients with a better understanding of surgical procedures tend to have better long-term outcomes due to the a...
Background:The aims were to describe a software-based reconstruction of the patient-specific kidney cavity intraluminal appearance via a head-mounted device and to estimate its feasibility for training novices.Materia...
Ureteroscopy during pregnancy has become increasingly recognized as a safe intervention.Performing it under local anesthesia and light sedation reduces the risks associated with general or regional anesthesia,such as ...
Background:Urological guidelines assert that"urine culture should be obtained"before surgical management of ureteral or kidney stones.Thus,many surgeries are delayed by 1-3 days until the results of urine culture are ...
Background:The management of suspected kidney stone disease in pregnancy is challenging.In cases of persistent flank pain and where investigations may have rendered equivocal results,ureteroscopy(URS)is a recognized d...
Objectives:This study is aimed to investigate the outcome of one-stage ureteroscopy(URS)and percutaneous nephrolithot(PCNL)for simultaneous ureteral and renal stones over 10years at a tertiary urology institute.Materi...