Medical Expulsive Therapy Post-SWL For Renal Stones

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2020-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

To evaluate the efficacy and stone free rate of placebo versus tamsulosin as medical expulsive therapy post-SWL in patients with renal stone less than 20 mm

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Mansoura University
• Treatments: Tamsulosin

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Renal stone ≤ 20 mm.

• Lower calyceal stone ≤ 15 mm

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women with known or suspected pregnancy or breastfeeding.

• History of alpa-blockers (more than 7 days prior to study participation)

• History of ureteral stricture

• Multiple (that is more than 2) stones

• Stone in solitary kidney (either anatomically or functionally).

• Presence of urinary sepsis.

• Estimated glomerular filtration rate < 30 ml/min

• Contraindication or allergy to tamsulosin