Open AccessShock wave lithotripsy in patients requiring anticoagulation or antiplatelet agents
Author(s) -
Bader Alsaikhan,
Sero Andonian
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian urological association journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.477
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1920-1214
pISSN - 1911-6470
DOI - 10.5489/cuaj.566
Subject(s) - medicine , lithotripsy , extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , surgery
Extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) remains the only trulyminimally invasive procedure for the treatment of upper tract nephrolithiasis.Recently, there has been a recent rise in the patientson antiplatelet agents. Therefore, the aim of the present study isto review the literature available regarding SWL in these high-riskpatients requiring anti-coagulation therapy. Alternative therapiesto SWL are also presented.
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