CONTEXT: Medical expulsive therapy (MET) for urolithiasis has gained increasing attention
in the last years. It has been suggested that the administration of α-adrenoreceptor …

Context Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) and ureteroscopy (URS), with or
without intracorporeal lithotripsy, are the most common treatments for upper ureteric stones …

Purpose: We quantified the burden of urolithiasis in the United States by identifying trends in
the use of health care resources and estimating the economic impact of the disease …

Objective To test the hypothesis that there is an increase in the incidence of childhood
nephrolithiasis in the state of South Carolina. Study design We analyzed demographic data …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Acute renal colic is a common presenting complaint to the emergency
department. Recently, medical expulsive therapy using α-antagonists or calcium channel …

OBJECTIVES: To evaluate whether alpha1-blockers have any impact on stone clearance in
patients with lower ureteral stones who underwent either shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) or …

A number of factors must be considered in determining the optimal treatment for patients
with renal or ureteral calculi. These factors may be grouped into four broad categories: stone …

OBJECTIVES: To design a randomized, no-treatment, controlled, prospective study to
determine whether the administration of tamsulosin, as adjunctive medical therapy …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the clinical role of corticosteroids in the medical expulsive therapy
of symptomatic distal ureteral stones. METHODS: Between January 2004 and September …

PURPOSE: We evaluated the effect of the α-blocker tamsulosin on stone clearance,
analgesic requirements and steinstrasse in shock wave lithotripsy for solitary renal and …