The effect of bipolar cauterization during percutaneous nephrolithotomy on decrease in postoperative bleeding
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- Diseases of the genitourinary system
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 180
Inclusion Criteria
Patients who receive standard percutaneous nephrolithotomy due to Kidney Calculi.
Exclusion Criteria
First, patients with other life-threatening complication such as hemothorax; second, patients who undertook simultaneous surgery such as transurethral resection of the prostate, patients who could not stop any anticoagulant, patients who undertook miniaturized PCNL, and finally, patients who undertook multi-tract PCNL.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional Study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Hemoglobin drop;Transfusion rate
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Postoperative hospital stay (days)