ESWL în Clinica Urologică din Târgu-Mureş - 10 ani de experienţă

Abstract

Summary Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is now the prevalent treatment for the reno-ureteral lithiasis. In 10 year (1991-2001) since we performe ESWL in our clinic, we practised 10342 treatments to 7343 patients with reno-ureteral calculi: We had patients with single or multiple stones, unilateral or bilateral, radioopaques or radiolucents, placed in the kidney or in the unter. In 81,43% of cases we performed monotherapy ESWL and to 18,57% of patients we used different auxiliary procedures (percutaneous, endoscopies and radiologic). To 97,79% of patients the stones were desintegrate after one or more ESWL treatments. In 2,21% of patients ESWL was not successful, thafs why we used other surgical procedures, also less invasive, to remove the stone. The stone-free rate at 3 month was 89,37%.