During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens. It's better for the patient if urologists ...

September is Urology Awareness Month so it would seem fitting to remember that chronic and common, kidney stones affect one in 11 people.1 The National Kidney Foundation notes that each year, more ...

Laser surgery is a long-accepted procedure to correct many conditions, from cataracts to plantars warts. Yet new uses for laser are still being discovered for alleviating conditions ranging from ...

Kidney stones can be painful, but doctors at the Wexner Medical Center at Ohio State teamed up with a company to make treatment easier for patients in a way never done before. A two-month trial that ...

A randomized trial found a similar stone-free rate after pulse-modulated Holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG) laser vs thulium fiber laser (TFL) treatment of kidney stones. An investigator reported trial data during ...

Carson Tahoe Health is among the first in the Northern Nevada region to utilize the Olympus Soltive™ SuperPulsed Laser System in urology procedures. Soltive is an elegant new laser technology that ...

Traverse City, Mich.-based Copper Ridge Surgery Center performed its first procedure using Lumenis’ minimally invasive laser technology, the Moses Pulse 120H, the center announced Sept. 28. The ASC ...

Olympus has launched a new laser platform intended for soft tissue applications and for lithotripsy, the destruction of hard masses within the body including in particular kidney stones. The Soltive ...

The Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH), Ikeja has again led public health institutions, as it successfully performed its first LASER Lithotripsy on October 28. LASUTH now has a full ...

Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections may require surgical ...