About this trial
To evaluate the effectiveness of this homework on stone clearance rates after retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) by instructing the patient in the home environment and suggesting percussion and movement/position changes to assist in spontaneous stone passage.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
Patients with an indication for RIRC
Disqualifiers
Patients with anatomic abnormalities such as horseshoe kidney, fragments in the calyx diverticulum, infundibular stenosis, pelvi-ureteral junction obstruction or ureteral stenosis.
Patients with morbid obesity, uncontrolled hypertension, previous cerebrovascular accident, skeletal deformity such as significant coronary artery disease or symptomatic gastro-esophageal reflux disease.
Patients with lumbar disc herniation who have undergone spinal surgery and are unable to undergo behavioral therapy.
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Percussion and position change in retrograde intrarenal surgery
BehavioralTo evaluate the effectiveness of this homework on stone clearance rates after RIRC by giving instructions to the patient in the home environment and suggesting percussion (tapping) and movement/position changes to help spontaneous stone passage.
Treatment groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
stone free rates
Secondary outcomes
Number of Patients with complications and Number of Patients with need for secondary surgery after retrograde intrarenal surgery
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