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- Title
Active stone removal for ocotogenarians and nonagenarians with nephrolithiasis: pros or cons.
- Authors
Zhu, Huacai; Xu, Zhanping
- Abstract
Secondly, the results showed that active stone treatment was more frequently done in men, patients under 90 years of age, in smaller stone burdens, as well as those being less frail and in absence of indwelling catheters (all I p i < 0.005). It is worth noting that compared with other lithotripsy methods, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy with the lowest stone clearance rate [[4]] but it led the longest survival time of patients. According to the authors' conclusions, we understand that stone removal can prolong patients' survival times.
- Subjects
EXTRACORPOREAL shock wave lithotripsy; NONAGENARIANS; KIDNEY stones
- Publication
World Journal of Urology, 2023, Vol 41, Issue 6, p1703
- ISSN
0724-4983
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00345-023-04388-x