The Management of Lithiasis The Rational Deployment of Technology

The Management of Lithiasis The Rational Deployment of Technology / edited by Jamsheer J. Talati, R.A.L. Sutton, F. Moazam, M. Ahmed.

The last twenty years has seen the biggest revolution in the treatment of renal tract stone that has ever been experienced in the history of urolithiasis. The treatment of upper tract renal stone has progressed from the days of a very traumatic and morbid procedure to the relatively innocuous, walk...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Talati, Jamsheer J. (Editor), Sutton, R.A.L (Editor), Moazam, F. (Editor), Ahmed, M. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Developments in Nephrology ; 38
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Urology.
Nephrology.
Internal medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • Section I: Epidemiology and Aetiology of Urinary Tract Calculi
  • 1 Urolithiasis: Composition, symptomatology and pathology
  • 2 Radiology in urolithiasis
  • 3 Epidemiology of urolithiasis in Pakistan
  • 4 Urolithiasis in the Middle East: Epidemiology and pathogenesis
  • 5 Epidemiology of urolithiasis in the Western world
  • 6 Metabolic and dietary risk factors for urolithiasis
  • 7 Oxalate and urolithiasis
  • 8 Familial clustering and sex incidence of urolithiasis
  • Section II: Choices in the Management Of Urinary Tract Calculi
  • 9 Decisions! Decisions
  • 10 Advantages and hazards of open surgery
  • 11 Choices, limitations, hazards and value of technology in the treatment of lithiasis
  • 12 Bioeffects of shock waves: An overview
  • 13 Laser fragmentation of urinary calculi
  • 14 ESWL today: Spectrum of stone disease treated on the extracorporeal lithotriptor
  • 15 Manageent of renal stones by operation
  • 16 ESWL for kidney stones and options for calyceal calculi
  • 17 Percutaneous nephrolithotomy for renal stones
  • 18 Management of staghorn calculi
  • 19 Management of ureteric stones
  • 20 Clinical results of laser fragmentation of ureteric stones
  • 21 Management of vesical and urethral stones
  • Section III: Enhancement of Efficacy and Safety of Treatment
  • 22 Patients at risk for excessive post-ESWL bleeding
  • 23 Patients with pacemakers
  • 24 Safeguarding foetus and gonads
  • 25 Other high-risk patients
  • 26 The role of ESWL in patients with leprosy and stone disease
  • 27 Factors determining need for multiple treatments on the Dornier HM
  • 28 Factors determining need for multiple treatments: Decisions based on stone bulk, composition and acoustic efficiency
  • 29 Prevention of steinstrasse
  • 30 Urinary tract infection, stones and ESWL
  • 31 The judicious use of stents
  • 32 Protection of hospital personnel
  • Section IV: High Technology at Affordable Cost
  • 33 Introduction: High technology at affordable cost
  • 34 The economics of stone disease therapy: An economist’s views
  • 35 Selecting a lithotriptor: Hospital perspectives
  • 36 Lithotriptor sharing
  • 37 Cost factors in equitable care
  • 38 Commencing and expanding lithotripsy services
  • 39 Financing the lithotriptor
  • Section V: Prevention of Urinary Tract Calculi
  • 40 Introduction: Prevention of urinary tract calculi
  • 41 The residual calcular fragment: A risk factor for recurrent stone disease
  • 42 Primary hyperparathyroidism in urinary tract stone disease in Pakistan and the West
  • 43 The role of diet in the prevention of urolithiasis
  • 44 Systematic follow-up of patients with recurrent nephrolithiasis: A guide for the practising urologist
  • 45 Follow-up of urolithiasis patients: A guide for urologists in developing countries
  • Section VI: Paediatric Urolithiasis
  • 46 Urolithiasis in children
  • Section VII: Biliary Tract Stones
  • 47 ESWL in gallstone therapy: History, current status and expectations
  • 48 Current management of gallstone disease: Perspective from a developing country
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Non-visual laser Lithotripsy T. K. Shah, Z. X. Jiang, G. W. Watson.

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