A Survey and Comparison of the Prevalence Pain and Hematuria and Irritative Symptoms in Patients with Double-J Catheter and Without Double-J Catheter After Trans-Urethral Leitothrips
1Endourology Fellowship ,Iran University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran. 2MSc Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, Lecturer Faculty member of Jiroft University of Medical Sciences, Jiroft, Iran.
Abstract: TUL is a selected treatment for Urethral stones. Leaving the benefits of utilizing TUL, a series of small and large scale side effects might be caused in the patients. Some Urologists recommend putting Double-J catheter in the urethra after TUL in order to prevent Urethral stenosis and pains. This research studies and compares the prevalence of post TUL side effects in patients with Double-J catheter and those without catheter. this is a descriptive and cross-sectional research whose population includes all the patients with TUL resorting to Imam Khomeini Hospital of Jiroft in the first 6 months of 2015. The researchers have classified patients into two groups including those with Double-J catheter and those without the catheter. Those patients were then studied in terms of causing stimulatory side effects, pain hematuria. 151 patients with TUL were studied in terms of post-surgery side effects. Double-J catheter was used for 70% of the patients after TUL. In both groups of patients with and without catheter, more than 75% of the patients reported side effects such as pain, hematuria and stimulatory symptoms, but no significant relationship was observed between the patients in terms of causing symptoms (p>0.005). although no significant relationship was observed in patients with double-j catheter and those without the catheter in terms of side effects, high number of complaints about post TUL side effects may lead us to the conclusion that using double-j catheter can cause only excessive costs for the patients. Of course, it is recommended to conduct this study in a larger society.
Keywords: urethral stone; trans-Lithotripsy; double-j catheter Back to TOC