Have you heard of ureteral stents? They are devices used in urological surgery. PubMed Central (Central European Journal of Urology) notes that its main objective is to allow passage of urine and ...

Urinary stents and catheters are implanted medical tubes that are widely used in human and veterinary medicine to drain urine to/from the bladder. Ureteral stents are used when the ureter, the duct ...

After years of hearing from patients how bothersome — and sometimes painful — ureteral stents are, Dr. Lee Ponsky, chair of the Department of Urology at University Hospitals, experienced the ...

Researchers have fabricated the world’s smallest stent using a shape-memory polymer, with features that are 40-times smaller than existing stents. The device could be used to widen the urinary tract ...

Researchers developed a method to clean urinary stents and catheters non-invasively—through the skin and without surgery—using ultrasound-activated microstructures. Urinary stents and catheters are ...