February 01, 2022
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The designation was awarded to the Acoustic Enhancer, a micro bubble composed of a gas core with a lipid shell, which is intended for use in conjunction with standard laser lithotripsy.
January 28, 2022
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“I think there is an urgency for us as urologists who are seeing many of these patients with kidney stones to be advocates, not just for the patients whom we're treating today, but for the populations in the future,” says Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
January 27, 2022
"The devices, telemedicine and remote care, and outpatient surgery risk us losing the human connection we had with the patient, as time spent with them is at a premium today," writes Gopal H. Badlani, MD.
January 24, 2022
“The main question we were interested in answering was what the impact of future climate under different scenarios of climate change would have on the incidence of kidney stone disease, using South Carolina as a model state,” says Jason Kaufman.
January 13, 2022
"Our analysis suggests that a warming planet will likely cause an increased burden of kidney stone disease on health care systems,” says Gregory E. Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE.
January 06, 2022
Investigators evaluated data from the Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
January 05, 2022
“Going into this study, we thought that potentially patients who had a stent placed with the string left in place were at higher risk of having a complication…But we found that they weren't at higher risk of a complication,” says Amy E. Krambeck, MD.
January 04, 2022
In a cohort of nearly 30,000 patients, more than half had cystoscopy-based stent removal within 6 months post ureteroscopy, investigators reported.
December 21, 2021
“I currently make regular use of a peripheral nerve block during PCNL…with the intent of, of limiting my patients exposure to and the need for opioids,” says Jared S. Winoker, MD.
December 16, 2021
“[Kidney stones] really seems like something that we should be devoting significant resources and effort to trying to figure out the root causes and also better treatments and therapies for,” says Jonathan E. Shoag, MD.
