Ureteroscopy with laser lithotripsy (ULL) is a medical procedure that breaks up kidney stones lodged in a ureter. Ureters are the tubes that connect your kidneys and bladder. Kidney stones affect ...

Engineers and clinicians have found that adding light-absorbing nanoparticles to surgical saline can make laser kidney stone removal up to seven times more efficient, without raising heat risks or ...

Lahore General Hospital is set to introduce Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS), a modern technique for the treatment of ...

Laser surgery is a long-accepted procedure to correct many conditions, from cataracts to plantars warts. Yet new uses for laser are still being discovered for alleviating conditions ranging from ...

In older children and adolescents, URS provides similar stone clearance to PCNL, but postoperative relief is not better. Ureteroscopy (URS) is as effective as percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for ...

Kidney stones afflict approximately one in nine individuals, causing intense pain and serious infections. With over 1.3 million emergency room visits and healthcare expenditures exceeding $5 billion ...

In a trial, more patients taking tamsulosin were able to tolerate placement of a large ureteral access sheath for kidney stone removal procedures. Preoperative administration of tamsulosin improves ...

Madurai: Doctors in Madurai removed multiple kidney stones from a 10-month-old baby using a minimally invasive procedure, avoiding the need for open surgery.The procedure, performed at Meenakshi ...

Removal of small, asymptomatic kidney stones during surgery to remove ureteral or contralateral stones resulted in less relapse than nonremoval and in similar numbers of subsequent emergency ...