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Filter by:A randomized clinical trial to investigate the impact of increased fluid intake and increased urine output on the recurrence rate of urinary stone disease (USD) in adults and children. The primary aim of the trial is to determine whether a multi-component program of behavioral interventions to increase fluid intake will result in reduced risk of stone disease progression over a 2-year period.
compare the outcomes of SWL for renal and upper lumbar ureteric stones using the alternating bidirectional approach versus the standard approach.
Percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) is a minimally invasive procedure considered as the treatment of choice for the management of large-scale and fully-formed kidney stones.This procedure has a 5% risk of complications including bleeding, the lesion of the collecting system, the risk of urinary infection and bacteremia. New surgical tools such as dilatation of the nephrostomy tract with mechanical dilatation contribute to the reduction of these risks, together with an improvement in the operative times and a lower rate of complications. At present there are multiple scales measuring the lithiasic morphology (Guy, the STONE nephrolitometry score system and the nomogram of the Office of Clinical Investigation of the Endourology Society - CROES) which allow to evaluate the degree of complexity of the stone, the possibility of residual stones and the risk of complications. These tools allow us to do a better analysis of the risk factors of the patient who will be taken to this type of endoscopic procedure in order to decrease morbidity and complication rates. Hypothesis: The use of pneumatic dilators during percutaneous nephrolithotomy reduces the rates of intraoperative and postoperative complications, which would have an impact on hospitalization times and surgical success for the management of renal stone.
Twenty (20) subjects presenting with a renal stone and candidates for FURS (flexible ureteroscopic renal surgery) will undergo a single FURS procedure for a kidney stone as part of the study, using the study device. These subjects will be randomized into stone breaking treatment or stone dusting.
This study tests moving kidney stones using focused ultrasound (referred to as ultrasonic propulsion). The study includes multiple population groups to investigate the ability of our technology to: a) move stone fragments to a location within the kidney to improve their chances of passage, and thus reduce the occurrence of additional symptomatic events and retreatment or b) move a symptomatic stone to relieve symptoms and pain.
The aim of this study is to identify the root cause for the significant discolouration of Boston Scientific Percuflex based stents.
The investigators objective is to study if some drugs can improve the success rate of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy for renal stones.
A total of 20 subjects presenting with urinary stone(s) in the kidney or ureter will be treated with an extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy device to fragment the stones. Subjects will be followed for 14 days. If at the 14 day follow-up visit the subject continues to present with a stone size 4 mm or greater will have an option of retreatment or other intervention. If the subject consents to be retreated at this time, this subject will be followed up for another 14 days.
Purpose: The purpose of the Stone Centre Serum and Urine Bank is to provide researchers with large numbers of serum and urine samples from kidney stone patients and controls for study of stone disease detection and treatment, and will take into account different genetic backgrounds, ages, and other patient factors to provide a broad sample size for the study of stone disease The Serum and Urine Bank will undoubtedly be an invaluable tool in the quest to understanding urinary stone disease. Objective: The objective of this research is to identify protein species or other compounds responsible for or contributing to kidney stone initiation and propagation.
Multimodal functional magnetic resonance (MR) methods, including MR diffusion, Blood-Oxygenation Level Dependent (BOLD) imaging and MR spectroscopy may provide complementary information about the functional status of a kidney. The researchers hypothesize that these non-invasive methods correlate with histology as "gold standard" and compete favorably with conventional in part invasive evaluation methods, and thus provide specific and early detection of kidney diseases of various etiologies, drug toxicity, or renal allograft dysfunction.