September 4th 2024
YOLT-203 is currently being assessed in the early phase 1 YOLT-203-101 trial.
“A wild and woolly time”: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for kidney stones
March 23rd 2022In this installment of Urology Times' 50th Anniversary Innovation Celebration, James E. Lingeman, MD, discusses the development of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for the treatment of kidney stones.
Urology Times 50 Innovations Series: Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy for stones
March 23rd 2022"The seminal innovation was the idea that you could create a focused shock wave that could be delivered into the body in a non-invasive way that had sufficient energy to break up a stone but not damage other structures," says James E. Lingeman, MD.
Dr. Demirjian on prediction model for acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery
March 21st 2022“One thing from our study that you can take home [is] no matter what the surgery is, small changes right after surgery can actually tell you more than we usually give them credit for,” says Sevag Demirjian, MD.
Investigators identify relationship between climate change and kidney stone occurrence
February 14th 2022Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE, and Jason Kaufman co-authored a study that investigated the association between kidney stone presentations in South Carolina under 2 different climate change scenarios.
The importance of climate change to urologists treating kidney stones
January 28th 2022“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.
Kidney stone occurrence projected to increase with climate change over time
January 24th 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.
Patient removal of ureteral stent with extraction string is safe and economical
January 5th 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.
Urologists discuss why kidney stones should be considered “a mainstream public health problem”
December 16th 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.
What clinicians can do to mitigate the risk of sepsis after ureteroscopy
December 15th 2021“We should really try to adapt, know what we're doing to the specific patient based on their risk factors, prepare them appropriately, and understand that it's a dangerous complication. We should do everything we can to prevent it,” says Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC.
2 studies evaluate the predictors and costs of urosepsis post-ureteroscopy
November 23rd 2021In 2 recent studies led by Naeem Bhojani, MD, FRCSC, and Ben H. Chew, MD, MSc, investigators performed a meta-analysis to identify predictors of sepsis as well as the cost of sepsis for patients with stone disease.
Lithotripters Trilogy and ShockPulse-SE show efficacy for stones
August 27th 2021“For harder, more aggressive stones, I'm more likely to use the Trilogy based on the results of the study. If I have a softer, easier stone, I prefer the lightness of the ShockPulse," said lead study investigator Amy E. Krambeck, MD.