The effects of cavitation bubble dynamics on cells has been investigated with respect to cell damage, cell detachment and membrane permeabilization. High-speed images show the dynamics of pressure ...

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METHODS Eighty patients with severe chronic pancreatitis and endoscopically unretrievable obstructive stones underwent ESWL with a piezoelectric lithotripter between 1989 and 1996. Clinical status, ...

Nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals are all more likely to offer services when they are relatively profitable than when they are relatively unprofitable. However, for-profit hospitals ...

Medically reviewed by Jay N. Yepuri, MD Biliary colic is abdominal pain that develops due to a blockage in the bile ducts, which carry bile (digestive fluid) from the liver to the gallbladder and ...

The scope was advanced to the descending colon, where the stone was completely fragmented using an emergency lithotripter (COOK SLH-1, TTCL-1 [8.5F]), and the larger fragments were extracted using a ...

Background: Intravascular lithotripsy (IVL), an emerging adjunctive therapeutic modality, demonstrates potential in managing severely calcified lesions. However, its quantitative efficiency in ...

Stone disease is common in the elderly and is associated with multiple comorbidities including hypertension, coronary artery disease, diabetes mellitus and chronic kidney disease. Evaluation of ...