ABSTRACT

Renal stones disease is one of the most prevalent diseases encountered in the practice of urology. This study described how patients with ureteric stones are managed in the main referral hospital in Palestine. Another aim was to investigate associations between sociodemographic and clinical variables of the patients with the interventions and medications prescribed to man-age patients with ureteric stones. Medical and surgical records of patients admitted to the hospi-tal for ureteric stones were reviewed, and relevant data were extracted using a data collection form created for this study. The data extraction form collected the patient's age, gender, comor-bidities, interventional procedures, and main laboratory findings like serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen levels. The final analysis included the complete medical and surgical records of 143 patients in this study. The median age of the patients included was 43.0 [29.0, 55.0] years, the median blood urea nitrogen was 13.8 [10.6, 17.3] mg/dL, and the median serum creatinine was 0.96 [0.75, 1.25] mg/dL. Most patients (79.0%) had a double J stent, and 33 (23.1%) had laser lithotripsy. More than half of the patients (60.8%) received ciprofloxacin. Age had signifi-cant and positive moderate correlation with blood urea nitrogen (Spearman’s rho = 0.37, p-value < 0.001) and serum creatinine (Spearman’s rho = 0.28, p-value = 0.002) levels. Younger age was associated with placement of double J stents patients (Chi-square = 5.1, p-value = 0.039). Placement of double J stent was associated with reporting right or left flanking pain (Chi-square = 16.0, p-value = 0.001). Prescription of ciprofloxacin was associated with prescription of di-clofenac sodium (Chi-square = 28.3, p-value < 0.001). In conclusion, patients with ureteric stones were adequately managed using different techniques in a large Palestinian referral hospital. Future studies are still needed to describe how patients with other renal stones are managed in Palestinian urology practice

Title

Alnajah journal

Publisher

An-Najah National University

Publisher Country

Palestine

Publication Type

Online only

Volume

7

Year

2022

Pages

9