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  2. Ureteral stent - Wikipedia

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    A ureteral stent (pronounced you-REE-ter-ul), or ureteric stent, is a thin tube inserted into the ureter to prevent or treat obstruction of the urine flow from the kidney. The length of the stents used in adult patients varies between 24 and 30 cm. Additionally, stents come in differing diameters or gauges, to fit different size ureters.

  3. Ureteric balloon catheter - Wikipedia

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    During the healing process urine drains through the wide central lumen while the balloon remains inflated. The ureteric balloon catheter may be used in conjunction with a double J stent for additional drainage. To remove the catheter after several weeks the balloon is deflated by snipping the distal end of the catheter.

  4. Stent - Wikipedia

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    Ureteral stents are used for various purposes, such as temporary measures to prevent damage to a blocked kidney until a stone removal procedure can be performed, providing drainage for compressed ureters caused by tumors, and preventing spasms and collapse of the ureter after trauma during procedures like stone removal. The thread attached to ...

  5. Kidney stone disease - Wikipedia

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    One ureteroscopic technique involves the placement of a ureteral stent (a small tube extending from the bladder, up the ureter and into the kidney) to provide immediate relief of an obstructed kidney. Stent placement can be useful for saving a kidney at risk for postrenal acute kidney failure due to the increased hydrostatic pressure, swelling ...

  6. Atherosclerosis: What Men Need to Know About Plaque ... - AOL

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    Chronic kidney disease. High cholesterol. Physical inactivity. ... (coronary angioplasty with stent placement): A percutaneous coronary intervention involves opening up a narrowed artery in your ...

  7. Catheter - Wikipedia

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    drainage of urine from the kidney by percutaneous (through the skin) nephrostomy; drainage of fluid collections, e.g. an abdominal abscess; pigtail catheter: used to drain air from around the lung (pneumothorax) administration of intravenous fluids, medication or parenteral nutrition with a peripheral venous catheter or central venous catheter

  8. Kentucky woman loses all of her limbs after kidney ... - AOL

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    After getting treatment for a kidney stone, it got infected and she became septic. She told Scripps News Lexington that after initially rushing to Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, ...

  9. Urethral stricture - Wikipedia

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    Instrumentation (e.g., after transurethral resection of prostate, transurethral resection of bladder tumor, or endoscopic kidney surgery) Infection (typically with gonorrhea) Lichen sclerosus [7] Surgery to address hypospadias can result in a delayed urethral stricture, even decades after the original surgery.