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Objective: To explore the correlates of sexual dysfunction and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) in male patients with urinary bladder stones and to determine the effect of stone extraction on recovery of sexual function.
Materials and Methods: A total of 87 male patients with primary bladder stones were studied from January 2015 to May 2016. All...
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... Bladder stones are secondary stones, and the incidence may be up to about 10 %. The occurrence of this situation seriously affects the daily lives of patients [3]. ...
Purpose: To compare the efficacies of two surgical methods combined with tamsulosin in treating benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) complicated with bladder stones. Methods: A total of 86 patients with BPH complicated with bladder stones and admitted to The People’s Hospital of Dingzhou, Hebei, from October 2021 to October 2022 were selected as subjects. The patients were equally divided into groups A and B (n = 43). Patients in group A were treated with transurethral vaporization and electro-resection of the prostate (TURP) + percutaneous nephroscopic lithotripsy (PCNL), while patients in group B were treated with TURP + holmium laser lithotripsy (HLL). Baseline clinical information, curative effect, surgery-related indicators, clinical symptoms, and recurrence were compared between the two groups of patients. Results: At 4 weeks post-surgery, Qmax was significantly higher in group B than in group A, while IPSS score, RUV, and prostate volume were significantly lower in group B than in group A (p ˂ 0.05). The levels of physiological state, psychological state, social functionality and level of subjective judgment were higher in group B than in group A (p ˂ 0.05). The incidence of complications in group A was 11.63 %, with a recurrence rate of 6.98 %, while the corresponding values for group B were 13.95 and 4.65 %, respectively (p > 0.05). Conclusion: The effect of TURP + HLL surgery on patients with BPH complicated with bladder stones is significantly better than that of TURP + PCNL surgery. The former also reduces clinical symptoms while improving the quality of life of patients.
... This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic lithotripsy with the lithoclast (EMS, Switzerland) and laser Holmium YAG in the management of bladder calculi. The mean age of our study participants was 41.28 ± 13.99 years, which is higher than the mean age of 13 years reported by Esposito et al. in 2021 [15] but lower than the 54.70 ± 9.80 years reported by Gong et al. in the same year [14]. This difference in age is mainly because Esposito et al. carried out their study in children and Gong et al. carried out theirs in older adults who were predisposed to bladder outlet obstruction issues such as prostatic hypertrophy while we studied young adults. ...
... This is in line with the report presented by Toricelli et al. in 2017 [18], as they reported macroscopic hematuria and acute urinary retention as the two main clinical findings in their 65-year-old patient. Other clinical presentations we enlisted, including lower urinary tract symptoms (25%) and bladder irritative symptoms (9.38%), which were also re-ported by Chong et al. in 2021 [14], while pain was reported by Hammad et al. in 2006 [19]. As concerns the etiologies of the bladder stones, we reported no obvious etiology in 43.75% of cases, BPH in 34.38% of cases, VVF sutures in 6.25% of cases, calcified double-J stents in 9.38% of cases, prolapsed IUCDs in 3.13% of cases, and a neurogenic bladder in 3.13% of cases. ...
