[Thoracic epidural anesthesia for extracorporeal lithotripsy. Comparison of 4 anesthetic solutions].

Extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a new non-invasive procedure allowing disintegration of upper urinary tract calculi, usually carried out in epidural anaesthesia (EA). The patient strapped to a stretcher is immersed in a bath. At the bottom of the tube is the shock-wave generator.

[Urinary tuberculosis and the pregnant woman].

A 35 years old woman presenting with urinary tuberculosis underwent classical antitubercular treatment. The ureteral stricture was treated by a winged catheter. This procedure, which is often effective, precludes the need for a difficult surgical operation in pregnant women.

[Urologic complications in adult kidney recipients].

In this article, the authors study the complications following all the kidney transplantations performed in their hospital between 1969 and 1980. During this period, 580 patients underwent 637 transplantations, including 120 (19%) with urological complications: urinary fistulae (49%), stenoses (28%), vesicorenal refluxes (13%), and calculi (10%). The postoperative mortality rate was 2.

[Treatment of 282 cases of urinary stress incontinence by retropubic colpopexy to Cooper's ligaments].

282 patients have undergone colpopexy to cooper ligament: 184 patients with genital prolapse treatment by abdominal approach, 18 patients with total hysterectomy for bening disease, 80 patients without any surgical procedure. Clinical survey was completed, for some patients, especially for the fifteen second-hand patients, by uretrocolpocystogram and/or urodynamic explorations. Functional results are equal to other works and seem to little decrease at a five year's notice.