Author/Authors :
Davarcı, Mürsel Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi, Tayfur Ata Sökmen - Tıp Fakültesi - Üroloji Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , Rifaioğlu, Murat Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Üroloji Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , Yalçınkaya, Fatih Rüştü Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Üroloji Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye , İnci, Mehmet Mustafa Kemal Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Üroloji Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye
Abstract :
Objectives: To evaluate the results of the extracorporeal electro shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) therapy in urinary system stone disease and to investigate the factors that affects the success. Materials and methods: Between February 2010 and December 2011, 101 patients, who had undergone SWL due to urolithiasis in Mustafa Kemal University Medical Faculty Urology Department, were retrospectively analyzed. Gender, stone localization, the kidney side, stone size, stone free rate were recorded and investigated. Results: In our study, of 101 patients, 68 (67.3%) male and 33 (32.7%) female patients, who had complaints with urolithiasis, were analyzed. The success rates when compare the localization of the stone formation independent of stone size were found 52.4%, 68%, 100% and 76.5% at lower, middle, upper calices and pelvis of kidney, respectively. In our study, the success rate according to stone size was 73.7%, 75%, 25% and 50% in lower than 100 mm^2, 100-200 mm^2, 200-300 mm^2 and higher than 300 mm^2 in diameter, respectively. For ureteral localizations, the success rate was 75%, 76.9% and 71.4% in upper, middle and lower ureter, respectively. Conclusions: In SWL therapy, success depends on size and localization of the stone. Our success rate was altered in terms of stone size and localization similar to previous reports.
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Urolithiasis , SWL , stone , free rate
