Amit Satish Bhattu, Shashikant Mishra, Arvind Ganpule, Jitendra Jagtap, Mohankumar Vijaykumar, Ravindra Bhalchandra Sabnis, Mahesh Desai
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the outcomes of miniperc at our center. PATIENTS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective review of consecutive 318 minipercs done in a single tertiary urological center. The Miniperc system used was either Wolf (Richard Wolf) 14F with 20F Amplaz sheath or Storz (Karl Storz) nephroscope 12F with 15/18F sheath or 16.5/19.5F sheath. Data about the demography of patients, comorbidities, stone size, number and size of the tract, size of nephroscope, energy source used, total operative time, exit strategy, hospital stay, clearance of stones, total analgesic requirement, visual analogue pain score at 6 and 24 hours, hemoglobin drop and complications were analyzed by the chi-square test and analysis of variance test...
March 2015: Journal of Endourology