[The treatment of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia using the selective alpha-blocker alfuzosin].

40 patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) were treated with the alpha-blocker alfuzosin which was administered per os twice a day in a dose 5 mg. The treatment brought about a decrease of the mean symptom score from 19.6 to 12.

[Electropiezolithotripsy in anomalous kidneys].

The results of electropiezolithotripsy (EPL) are presented for 54 patients with anomalous kidneys. Nineteen of them had a shield kidney, 12 had double kidney, 9 showed different types of dystopia, L- and S-shaped kidneys were in 3 and 1 patient, respectively, 2 patients had a sponge kidney. Anomalies of the upper urinary tracts themselves are not a contraindication to extracorporeal EPL under satisfactory urine passage distally from the calculus.