Property | ouble-J ureteral stents are commonly used to bypass obstruction and
alleviate pain in acute obstruction as well as in preparations
prior to endoscopic stone treatment, or to stent the ureterovesical
anastomosis after kidney transplantation to avoid obstruction due
to edema in the early postoperative phase. In spite of various
material upgrades and design modifications, encrustation remains a
major problem causing stent associated complications with a
significant impact on patients’ quality of life . Encrusted stents
can become blocked and cause obstructive pyelonephritis. Foreign
bodies in the urinary tract also tend to be colonized by bacteria
that cause urinary tract infections. Severely encrusted stents can
no longer be retrieved endoscopically and require more invasive
approaches to be removed. As a result, indwelling stents have to be
replaced in regular intervals. For stone patients, indwelling times
longer than six weeks have been associated with significantly
higher encrustation rates . For transplant patients, indwelling times from two to six weeks
after transplantation have been recommended based on urinary tract
infection (UTI) rates and stent-related complications such as pain,
hematuria, encrustation and migration .
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Specification | F4, F4.8, F5, F6, F7, F8 Length: 15cm, 18cm, 26cm, 28cm |