Management of a Massive Bladder Stone Burden in an Elderly Comorbid Woman via a Transurethral Approach

Johnathan A Khusid; Areeba S Sadiq; Mantu Gupta; William M Atallah

doi:10.1089/cren.2020.0190

Management of a Massive Bladder Stone Burden in an Elderly Comorbid Woman via a Transurethral Approach

J Endourol Case Rep. 2020 Dec 29;6(4):509-511. doi: 10.1089/cren.2020.0190. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Johnathan A Khusid¹, Areeba S Sadiq¹, Mantu Gupta¹, William M Atallah¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Urology, Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA.

Abstract

Here we present the case of a 78-year-old medically comorbid woman with an extremely large bladder stone burden treated by cystolithalopaxy performed using a Swiss LithoClast^® Trilogy Lithotripter (Boston Scientific, Marlborough, MA, USA) through a nephroscope traversing a transurethral Amplatz sheath.

Keywords: bladder stones; cystolitholapaxy; endourology; transurethral; urolithiasis; urology.

Publication types

Case Reports