title: [Experience in the clinical application of semirigid mini-urethral endoscopes in the diagnosis and treatment of urinary bladder diseases].
abstract: We compared efficacy and safety of clinical application of modern semirigid miniureterorenoscopes (MURS) and standard hard-lens ureterorenoscopes (URS). The results of 335 transurethral endoscopic operations on the ureter have been analysed. Positive results of ureteroliths elimination by lithotripsy and lithoextraction were observed in 100 (77.5%) patients of group 1 (hard-lens URS) and in 175 (94.6%) patients of group 2 (semirigid MURS). Ureteral perforation occurred 3 times more often in group 1 patients than in group 2 (3.1 and 1.08%, respectively). A total number of complications observed in group 1 and 2 in the course of transurethral ureterolithotropsy and lithoextraction reached 6.3 and 1.08%, respectively. Ureterolithotomy was performed in group 2 eight times less frequently than in group 1 patients (2.1 and 17.9%, respectively). Ureteropyeloscopy made by semirigid MURS is a valuable therapeutic and diagnostic aid which raises efficacy of transurethral endoscopic manipulations, significantly lowers traumaticity of the upper urinary tracts and reduces to minimum the number of intra- and postoperative complications.
authors.forename: A G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Martov
authors.forename: B L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Gushchin
authors.forename: Sh I
authors.initials: ShI
authors.lastname: Al'-Musavi
authors.forename: I N
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Tarshev
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Serebrianyiĭ
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Pisenok
mesh_terms: D004867:Equipment Design; D005336:Fiber Optic Technology; D006801:Humans; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008096:Lithotripsy / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014513:Ureter / Q000293:injuries; D014514:Ureteral Calculi / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D020709:Ureteroscopes; D018666:Ureteroscopy / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*