fURS Tips and tricks

• 16 Jan 2020 06:29:06 PM
• |Endo Urology

Dear All,

fURS has come to stay and it may even replace PCNL in majority of instances in near future. Though Miniaturisation has occurred in PCNL Technology, the same is effectively occurring in fURS as well.

This article by Bhaskar Somani and Olivier Traxer is a must read and understood by all trainees in the group as it will improve your understanding as regards fURS.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6790416/pdf/tau-08-S4-S371.pdf

I am not making any additional comments on the article but hopefully our many experts performing fURS in our group may be able to add on to the article with their personal experience.

With warm regards,

Venu

Comments(3)

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  Dr. Anil Takvani

  17 Jan 2020 08:45:40 AM

  Thank you very much Sir

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  Haresh G Thummar

  01 Feb 2020 05:49:45 PM

  Absolutely agree with sir,it’s worth reading article and I am in personal communication with PETRA group as I am as debating motion against single use disposable flex urs during USICON 2020.They have sone good basic work on flex urs both reusable and disposable.Some of the images are shared by Dr Traxer during his talk on flex URS during various scientific meets abd worth to understand.

  I must appreciate you sir for making our colleagues aware about this good article on flex urs.

  Dr Haresh Thummar 

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  Pankaj N Maheshwari

  19 Feb 2020 12:55:25 PM

  Thanks a lot Sir

  A wonderful article

  I have a thought about the use of safety wire for RIRS. I feel we must use it regularly, specially when treating upper ureteric calculi. 

  The distinct advantages are: 1. Ureter remains straight so in & out easy and non-traumatic 2. System drains better. Drainage also happens along the wire. 3. Reduced fluoroscopy as wire can guide position of the scope 4. Can assess ureter while removing access sheath. this is very important as otherwise we would miss ureteric injury due to access sheath or dilatation. 5. Placement of DJ easy

  6. Surely it is improves safety