[Treatment of ureterocele in children].

Twenty six patients (15 children and 11 adults) with ureterocele were treated. Heterotopic ureterocele prevailed over common forms in children while in adults--vice versa (66.7 and 33.

[Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and recurrent urolithiasis].

Changes in concentrations of total thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3) in blood plasma, blood coagulation and prothrombin index (PI) 9 days after exposure to extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) were studied in patients with urolithiasis. Urolithiasis patients with chronic pyelonephritis running with non-severe renal pain had often elevated concentrations of T3, T4 and blood coagulation. On day 9 after ESWL plasma concentration of T3 and coagulation decreased while T4 concentration and PI rose.

[Effects of antihypertensive therapy on renal function in nephrogenic hypertension].

Radionuclide tracing was performed to study renal function before and after hypotensive therapy in 95 patients suffering from nephrogenic hypertension with renal failure. It is shown that if hypotensive therapy in such patients brings about a blood pressure fall more than 25% of the initial blood pressure, renal function declines, the suppression being especially evident in severe renal insufficiency.

[Effects of shock-wave lithotripsy (ESWL) on electrolytic and hormonal balance in nephrolithiasis patients].

Blood concentrations of parathyroid hormone, aldosterone, hydrocortisone, Na+, K+, Ca2+, 24-h urine concentration of Ca2+, blood pressure were measured on day 3 and 7 after extracorporeal shock-wave lithotripsy. A total of 54 patients with nephrolithiasis (NL) were examined. In NL patients with hypertension the above lithotripsy led to a fall in pressure by 15-20%, to correction of initial hormonal and electrolytic unbalance.

[The prognosis of the efficacy of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy of the kidneys and ureters].

A retrospective analysis of the data on 300 patients revealed a relationship between basic clinical and history evidence, location of the concrement and efficacy of a single lithotripsy. The author presents factors influencing concrement disintegration. Basing on the relations between efficacy of lithotripsy and clinical signs three-score system for estimation of each sign is proposed.