The role of the lithokinetic therapy in the treatment of distal ureteral stones

Abstract

Introduction. The problem of urethral stones nowadays is quite actual. The treatment is long and complex. There are a lot of methods of treating urethral stones, one of them being the drug therapy for the expulsion of urethral stones. There are many scientific researches about the effectiveness of α-blockers in medical expulsion therapy of distal urethral stones, but the results of the studies are contradictory. In this research, scientific publications about medical expulsion therapy for the distal urethral stones will be examined to establish conclusions about the effectiveness of the treatment with the α-blockers.