Medical therapy to facilitate the passage of stones: what is the evidence?

C Seitz, E Liatsikos, F Porpiglia, HG Tiselius… - European urology, 2009 - Elsevier
therapy group or a placebo group. Studies consisted of randomised or controlled human trials.
After stonestone passage. There was no language restriction for incorporation of studies. …

Medical therapy to facilitate urinary stone passage: a meta-analysis

JM Hollingsworth, MAM Rogers, SR Kaufman… - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
… Although a high-quality randomised trial is necessary to confirm its efficacy, our findings
suggest that medical therapy is an option for facilitation of urinary-stone passage for patients …

Medical therapy of stone disease: from prevention to promotion of passage options

M Lipkin, O Shah - Current urology reports, 2009 - Springer
… In addition, intake of citrate-rich juices, such as lemonade, may help to reduce urinary stone
… use of medical therapy to aide in the passage of ureteral stones. Medical expulsive therapy (…

A systematic review of medical therapy to facilitate passage of ureteral calculi

A Singh, HJ Alter, A Littlepage - Annals of emergency medicine, 2007 - Elsevier
… Recently, medical expulsive therapy using α-antagonists or calcium channel blockers
has been shown to augment stone passage rates of moderately sized, distal, ureteral …

Medical therapy for urinary stone passage

MS Pearle - The Lancet, 2006 - thelancet.com
… Although a high-quality randomised trial is necessary to confirm its efficacy, our findings
suggest that medical therapy is an option for facilitation of urinary-stone passage for patients …

Medical therapy for calculus disease

SK Singh, MM Agarwal, S Sharma - BJU international, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… of medical therapy in various aspects of stone management, ie clearance of existing calculi
by medicalstone-passage rate and time to stone passage according to the diameter of the …

Medical therapy of urolithiasis

S Micali, M Grande, MC Sighinolfi, CD Carne… - Journal of …, 2006 - liebertpub.com
… has been recommended to promote stone passage and reduce the need for SWL or minimally
invasive surgery. There are several classes of drugs with different mechanisms of action …

Beyond medical expulsive therapy: evolution to supported stone passage for ureteric stones

AJ Portis, JL Portis, MS Borofsky… - BJU international, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… for stone passage and risks and benefits of medical and … protocol (within limits of medical
condition and drug sensitivities): (1… by medical expulsive therapy and supported stone passage

Urolithiasis–medical therapies

D Spernat, J Kourambas - BJU international, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… of medical therapies available for urolithiasis. The summary includes general medical advice…
Nifedipine is effective at increasing the spontaneous stone passage rate. Meta-analysis has …

Medical expulsive therapy

KD Wood, I Gorbachinsky, J Gutierrez - Indian Journal of Urology, 2014 - journals.lww.com
… can be treated with multiple modalities including medical therapy, ureteroscopy, shock …
Spontaneous passage of ureteral stones is dependent on stone size and location among other …