UF Department of Urology

The study compared patient experiences with silicone vs polyurethane ureteral stents.

Joshua M. Heiman, MD, details key findings from the POuND OUT study.

John Michael DiBianco, MD, discusses findings from the BLUES trial.

DiBianco discusses findings from the Better Lithotripsy and Ureteroscopy Evaluation of Stenting trial.

Shay Rajavel, MS3, shares details on an AUA 2025 presentation on CO2 gas embolism during laparoscopic surgery.

"I think the patients that benefit the most are patients that have certain types of stones that potentially are much harder to treat with some of the more minimally invasive types of procedures," says John Michael DiBianco, MD.

"The cases that I've done have been here, at least, have been some of the most, I guess, impactful and really make me proud and happy to be a urologist and to do something [for which] the patients are incredibly grateful," says John Michael DiBianco, MD.

"You definitely need to be very adaptable. You have to have a great team," says John Michael DiBianco, MD.

“With the support of the pediatric department and the pediatric urologists I work very closely with, we've been very successful in identifying the right patients,” says John Michael DiBianco, MD.

"Anytime we do a PCNL...we always get a CT scan. That's pretty standard," says John Michael DiBianco, MD.

"It's my opinion that no patient population benefits more from a miniaturized technique than a pediatric patient," says John Michael DiBianco, MD.