Spectrumedics joins J&J MedTech’s Shockwave and Elixir Medical as the only other companies with EU-approved IVL systems.

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Extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) represents one of the most significant medical advances of the past decades. Since ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA—The use of cutting and noncompliant balloons for lesion preparation appears to provide results similar to those achieved with Shockwave intravascular lithotripsy (IVL; Shockwave ...

Antibiotic prophylaxis with a single dose of ciprofloxacin reduces bacteriuria and urinary tract infections (UTIs) after shockwave lithotripsy for urolithiasis. A single dose of ciprofloxacin before ...

Renal tract stone disease is common. The three intervention options are shockwave lithotripsy, flexible ureteroscopic stone treatment and keyhole surgery. To determine which of shockwave lithotripsy, ...

To consolidate the current evidence of artificial intelligence (AI) for management of nephrolithiasis using extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL), and to look at its feasibility into ...

The AEROLITH study demonstrated that in the ureteral stone subgroup, a key clinical population, efficacy was comparable between URS-LL with microbubbles and URS-LL alone. However, the use of ...

Balloon lithotripsy better prepared severely calcified lesions for stenting compared with conventional techniques, based on results of intravascular imaging in the small, 200-person BALI trial. Among ...

FIRST-LINE treatment options for lower pole renal stones (LPS) include flexible ureterorenoscopy (FURS) and extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL), according to the European Association of ...