title: Complications of endopyelotomy: analysis in series of 64 patients.
abstract: We review the complications and failures in our first 64 patients who underwent endopyelotomy. There were 2 intraoperative complications (3.1 per cent) necessitating an open operation. Postoperative complications included leakage around the stent or irritative bladder symptoms, which were treated by repositioning the stent, and 2 instances of ureterovesical stenosis, which have led us to stent the entire ureter in recent cases. There were 7 failures, 4 in patients who in retrospect were not suitable candidates for the percutaneous operation (long stenotic segment and redundant renal pelvis) and 3 for which there was no obvious cause. All failures were apparent soon after removal of the stent that was inserted at the end of the procedure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Badlani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Karlin
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007682:Kidney Pelvis / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009403:Nephrostomy, Percutaneous; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D011859:Radiography; D012008:Recurrence; D012086:Reoperation; D014513:Ureter / Q000601:surgery; D014517:Ureteral Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*