Treatment of Urolithiasis

1. Front Matter

   Pages II-IX

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2. Clinical Practice Guidelines for Ureteral Stones: Implications in Japan and Limitations

   • Eiji Higashihara

   Pages 1-11

3. Management of Urolithiasis: Guidelines in the USA

   • Sanjay Ramakumar, Joseph W. Segura

   Pages 12-22

4. Epidemiology of Urolithiasis in Japan

   • Akito Terai, Osamu Yoshida

   Pages 23-36

5. Urolithiasis—Patient Evaluation and Medical Treatment

   • David A. Lifshitz, Arieh L. Shalhav, James E. Lingeman

   Pages 37-59

6. Contemporary Management of Distal Ureteral Calculi

   • Matthew T. Gettman, Margaret S. Pearle

   Pages 60-74

7. Percutaneous Nephrolithotripsy (PNL): What Factors Make PNL Difficult and What Are the Ways to Prevent and Solve Those Problems?

   • Akito Yamaguchi, Kaoru Miyazaki, Hiroyuki Meiri, Jiro Uozumi, Zenjiro Masaki

   Pages 75-87

8. Technology of Shockwave Lithotripsy

   • George K. Chow, Stevan B. Streem

   Pages 88-97

9. Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy

   • Michael Grasso III

   Pages 98-106

10. Calyceal Calculi

    • John Kourambas, Glenn M. Preminger

    Pages 107-134

11. Urolithiasis in Children—ESWL and Auxiliary Measures

    • Peter-Martin Braun, Jeanette Hoang-Böhm, Peter Alken

    Pages 135-142

12. Treatment of Complicated Urolithiasis

    • Seiichi Orikasa, Naomasa Ioritani, Yutaka Chiba, Senji Hoshi, Atsushi Fukuzaki

    Pages 143-152

13. Common and Uncommon Complications Related to ESWL

    • Yasutomo Nasu, Takushi Kurashige, Hiromi Kumon

    Pages 153-166

14. Complications of Urolithiasis Treatment (PNL)

    • Taiji Nishimura

    Pages 167-182

15. Back Matter

    Pages 183-188

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Urolithiasis is not only one of the most frequently encountered diseases at uro­ logical clinics; it is also the disorder whose treatment has shown the most rapid progress in the past decade. In that period, medicine has experienced a real revolution, characterized by minimally invasive treatments, improvement of the quality of life, and cost-effectiveness in treatment outcomes. In urology, the revolution started with the development of endoscopic retrograde treatment of urolithiasis in the upper urinary tract, which led to development of the percuta­ neous antegrade maneuver in the latter half of the 1970s. The most remarkable event occurred in 1982, when clinical use of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy was introduced by the Munich group, represented by Dr. Christian Chaussy, at the 18th Congress of the International Society of Urology in San Francisco. With the advent of these new strategies, open surgery for urolithiasis has all but dis­ appeared. Today, with the availability of new technology and equipment, guide­ lines for the treatment of urolithiasis have changed in all developed countries. It is quite timely that the Meeting of International Consultation on Urolithiasis will be held in Paris in June 2001 to establish international guidelines for urolithiasis. Looking through this textbook for urolithiasis, I was greatly impressed to learn that we have already drawn up some guidelines. The book includes all the updated advances of urolithiasis presented by the most prominent and experi­ enced urologists from all around the world.

• Calyceal calculi
• Nephrolithotripsy
• Staghorn calculi
• Urolithiasis
• distal ureteral calculi
• surgery
• urology

• Department of Urology, Nippon Medical School, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Masao Akimoto

• Department of Urology, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

  Eiji Higashihara

• Department of Urology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan

  Hiromi Kumon

• Department of Urology, Saga Medical School, Saga, Japan

  Zenjiro Masaki

• Department of Urology, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan

  Seiichi Orikasa

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