Urinary Stents
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Urinary Stents

Current State and Future Perspectives

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eBook - ePub

Urinary Stents

Current State and Future Perspectives

About this book

This open access book provides a concise overview of a range of aspects related to urinary stents. Sections within the work cover clinical and recent technological advancements in the field. Chapters feature detailed coverage of the different surgical, pharmacological and palliative treatments currently available. Insight is also given on current limitations of urinary stents and how these can be overcome by utilizing anti-biofilm coatings; new biomaterials, drug-eluting stents, and biodegradable stents. Therefore, enabling the reader to systematically gain a detailed understanding of the subject.

Urinary Stents is a practical, multi-disciplinary focused resource onthecomplications and applications ofureteral, urethral and prostatic stents in day-to-day clinical practice. A vital read forall medical professionals and researchers who work in this area.

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Yes, you can access Urinary Stents by Federico Soria,Duje Rako,Petra de Graaf in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Surgery & Surgical Medicine. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2022
Print ISBN
9783031044830
eBook ISBN
9783031044847

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front Matter
  3. Present and Future of Urinary Stents
  4. Indications, Complications and Side Effects of Ureteral Stents
  5. Indications, Complications and Side Effects of Metallic Ureteral Stents
  6. Urethral Stents. Indications, Complications and Adverse Effects
  7. Ureteral Stents. Impact on Patient’s Quality of Life
  8. Strategies to Improve the Quality of Life of Stented Patients
  9. Use of Drugs to Reduce the Morbidity of Ureteral Stents
  10. Ureteral Stent Designs to Reduce Stent-Related Symptoms and Improve Patient Quality of Life
  11. Encrustation in Urinary Stents
  12. Forgotten Ureteral Stent Syndrome
  13. Endourological Management of Encrusted Ureteral Stents
  14. Pediatric Ureteral Stents
  15. Flow Dynamics in Stented Ureter
  16. Methodology for the Development and Validation of New Stent Designs: In Vitro and In Vivo Models
  17. Methodology on Clinical Evaluation of Urinary Stents
  18. A Dynamically Degradable Surface: Can We ‘Fool’ Bacteria to Delay Biofouling in Urinary Stents?
  19. Biomaterials for Ureteral Stents: Advances and Future Perspectives
  20. Coatings for Urinary Stents: Current State and Future Directions
  21. Bacterial Adhesion and Biofilm Formation: Hydrodynamics Effects
  22. Biomaterial-Associated Infection: Pathogenesis and Prevention
  23. Antibiotic-Free Solutions for the Development of Biofilm Prevention Coatings
  24. Plasma Based Approaches for Deposition and Grafting of Antimicrobial Agents to Polymer Surfaces
  25. Antimicrobial Biosurfactants Towards the Inhibition of Biofilm Formation
  26. Novel Antimicrobial Strategies to Combat Biomaterial Infections
  27. Light-Activated Polymer Nanocomposites Doped with a New Type of Carbon Quantum Dots for Antibacterial Applications
  28. Nanoparticles. Potential for Use to Prevent Infections
  29. Urinary Tract Infections and Encrustation in Urinary Stents
  30. Learning from Our Mistakes: Applying Vascular Stent Technologies to the Urinary Tract
  31. Biodegradable Urinary Stents
  32. New Double-J Stent Design for Preventing/Reducing Irritative Bladder Symptoms and Flank Pain
  33. Drug Eluting Devices in the Urinary Tract
  34. Methods and Materials for Drug Eluting Urinary Stents Design and Fabrication
  35. Preventing Biofilm Formation and Encrustation on Urinary Implants: (Bio)coatings and Tissue Engineering
  36. Preventing Biofilm Formation and Encrustation on Urinary Implants: (Bio)molecular and Physical Research Approaches
  37. Ten Steps to Strategic Planning for the Urinary Stents of the Future