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Background: Placement of indwelling ureteral stents has become routine in the management of variety of urinary tract infections. Despite the advances and technology, the ideal stent is not available yet. A double-J stent is never without potential complications which may be minor in form of hematuria, dysuria, frequency, flank and suprapubic pain to major complications such as vesicoureteric reflux, migration, malposition, encrustation, stent fracture etc.Methods: One hundred urological patients who had undergone double-J ureteral stenting attending surgery department were taken. Patients were subjected to detailed history and clinical examination and other routine investigations and symptoms of any complications were recorded starting at the time of placement of double-J ureteral stent till its removal.Results: Majority of the patients in our study had only minor complications related to double-J ureteral stenting like flank or suprapubic pain, dysuria, hematuria and urgency which were managed conservatively. Major complication like stent migration was seen only in 1 patient which was managed with removal of stent.Conclusions: At the end of study, we concluded that double-J stents have become an essential part of many endourological and open urological procedures and their use cannot be completely avoided.
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INTRODUCTION: The majority of urological complications in renal transplantations are related to ureterovesical anastomosis and urological complications continue to be a significant source of morbidity with occasional graft loss and mortality. PURPOSE: We evaluated the impact of the routine placement of double-J ureteral stent for decreasing urological complications after renal transplantation. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted involving 80 consecutive cadaveric and living donor renal transplantations performed between January 1999 and March 2003. All patients were divided in two groups: stented versus non-stented. The ureteroneocystostomy was made by anterior extravesical technique in all cases as Lich et al described. The stent was removed endoscopically after 2 to 4 weeks after transplantation if there were no surgical problems. All episodes of urinary tract infection, urinary leaks, urinary stricture, prolonged discharge by suction drain, hospital day and stent related problems were analysed. RESULTS: The overall major surgical complication rates in non-stented and stented groups were 5.9% (3 of 51) and 3.4% (1 of 29), respectively. In non-stented group, two ureteral leakages and one ureteral stricture developed. Two ureteral leakages were required reoperation in immediate postoperative period. But only one patient in stented group had symptomatic lymphocele requiring surgical correction (laparoscopic fenestration).Hospital stay was much shorter in stented group (23.0+/-5.4 days vs 31.3+/-9.3 days; P<.05). The timing of removal of suction drain is much faster in stented group (11.1+/-6.7 days vs 22.8+/-8.0 days; P<.05). There was no case of stent-related obstruction, stone formation and stent migration. There was no graft loss or mortality due to urological complications. CONCLUSION: The routine use of a double-J stent is recommendable in all recipients in order to prevent ureteral complications after renal transplantation.