[Treatment of first incidences of urolithiasis in children]

Pol Merkur Lekarski. 2008:24 Suppl 4:68-70.
[Article in Polish]

Abstract

Unlike adults urolithiasis in children is a rare disease. For this reason medical treatment in this age group is still a serious therapeutic challenge. The aim of the study was to analyze the results of the applied treatment in the first incidences of urinary stones disease. A group of 143 patients aged 1.5 to 17 years was enrolled in this study. Spontaneous stone passage was obtained in case of 65 patients, which amounts to 63% of patients, who received conservative treatment. 17% were qualified to the ESWL treatment, 5.6% underwent the URS procedure, and in 2.8% of patients open surgery was performed. In 29% of cases stones were left for further observation. Conservative therapy was effective in the majority of children with small urinary stones. Preferred treatment in remaining patients were minimally invasive urological procedures.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Lithotripsy
  • Male
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures
  • Urolithiasis / surgery
  • Urolithiasis / therapy*