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Hu K, Hou Z, Huang Y, Li X, Li X, Yang L. Recent development and future application of biodegradable ureteral stents. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2024; 12:1373130. [PMID: 38572363 PMCID: PMC10987965 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2024.1373130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2024] [Accepted: 03/06/2024] [Indexed: 04/05/2024] Open
Abstract
Ureteral stenting is a common clinical procedure for the treatment of upper urinary tract disorders, including conditions such as urinary tract infections, tumors, stones, and inflammation. Maintaining normal renal function by preventing and treating ureteral obstruction is the primary goal of this procedure. However, the use of ureteral stents is associated with adverse effects, including surface crusting, bacterial adhesion, and lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) after implantation. Recognizing the need to reduce the complications associated with permanent ureteral stent placement, there is a growing interest among both physicians and patients in the use of biodegradable ureteral stents (BUS). The evolution of stent materials and the exploration of different stent coatings have given these devices different roles tailored to different clinical needs, including anticolithic, antibacterial, antitumor, antinociceptive, and others. This review examines recent advances in BUS within the last 5 years, providing an in-depth analysis of their characteristics and performance. In addition, we present prospective insights into the future applications of BUS in clinical settings.
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Affiliation(s)
- Ke Hu
- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
- Research Center for Biomedical Materials, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Techniques, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Research Center for Biomedical Materials, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Techniques, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- College of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian Minzu University, Dalian, China
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- Department of Urology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Dalian Medical University, Dalian, China
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- Research Center for Biomedical Materials, Engineering Research Center of Ministry of Education for Minimally Invasive Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Techniques, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China
- Liaoning Research Institute for Eugenic Birth and Fertility, China Medical University, Shenyang, China
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Wu YX, Choi EJ, Vu AA, Jiang P, Ali SN, Patel RM, Landman J, Clayman RV. Comparison of Ureteral Stent Biomaterials: Encrustation Profile in Lithogenic Artificial Urine Models. ACS OMEGA 2023; 8:29003-29011. [PMID: 37599945 PMCID: PMC10433332 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.3c01800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2023] [Accepted: 07/20/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023]
Abstract
Ureteral stent encrustation significantly limits indwelling time and can lead to downstream urological problems. However, no ideal polymeric biomaterials have been shown to completely resist encrustation in long-term urine exposure. Recently, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA)-coated Pellethane was reported as a promising biomaterial resistant to encrustation. This study compared HEMA-coated Pellethane to commercially available stents under two different artificial urine environments. To evaluate the degree and composition of encrustation on HEMA-coated Pellethane, Boston Scientific Tria, Bard InLay Optima, Cook Universa Hydrogel, and Cook Black Silicone stents were used at various dwelling times in two different artificial urine environments. In a batch-flow model, samples of stents were suspended in an artificial urine solution (AUS) at 37 °C. Every 24 h for 11 weeks, 50% of the AUS would be replaced with fresh components using a programmable peristaltic pump system. The stent materials were removed at suitable time intervals and air-dried for 24 h under sterile conditions before follow-up analysis. SEM was used to assess the degree of encrustation, and inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) was employed to quantify the encrusted compositions, specifically for calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus. We measured the weight gain over time due to encrusted deposits on the stents and quantified the amount of Ca, Mg, and P deposited on each encrusted stent. After the 11 week trial, HEMA-coated Pellethane showed the most average mass change. SEM showed that HEMA-coated Pellethane was fully encrusted in just 2 weeks in the AUS environments, and ICP-MS showed that Ca is the most abundant deposit. Among all the tested stents, Black Silicone performed the best. The two AUSs were formulated to encrust more rapidly than physiological conditions. HEMA-coated Pellethane is not an ideal stent material, while silicone is a promising material for advancing ureteral stents.
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- Yi X. Wu
- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Chemistry, University of California,
Irvine, Irvine 92697, California, United States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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- Department
of Urology, University of California, Irvine, Orange 92868, California, United
States
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Qiu J, Yan M, Wang H, Liu Z, Wang G, Wu X, Gao Q, Hu H, Chen J, Dai Y. Identifying ureteral stent encrustation using machine learning based on CT radiomics features: a bicentric study. Front Med (Lausanne) 2023; 10:1202486. [PMID: 37601775 PMCID: PMC10433756 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2023.1202486] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2023] [Accepted: 07/12/2023] [Indexed: 08/22/2023] Open
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Obstructive To develop and validate radiomics and machine learning models for identifying encrusted stents and compare their recognition performance with multiple metrics. Methods A total of 354 patients with ureteral stent placement were enrolled from two medical institutions and divided into the training cohort (n = 189), internal validation cohort (n = 81) and external validation cohort (n = 84). Based on features selected by Wilcoxon test, Spearman Correlation Analysis and least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression algorithm, six machine learning models based on radiomics features were established with six classifiers (LR, DT, SVM, RF, XGBoost, KNN). After comparison with those models, the most robust model was selected. Considering its feature importance as radscore, the combined model and a nomogram were constructed by incorporating indwelling time. Accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, area under the curve (AUC), decision curve analysis (DCA) and calibration curve were used to evaluate the recognition performance of models. Results 1,409 radiomics features were extracted from 641 volumes of interest (VOIs) and 20 significant radiomics features were selected. Considering the superior performance (AUC 0.810, 95%CI, 0.722-0.888) in the external validation cohort, feature importance of XGBoost was used as a radscore, constructing a combined model and a nomogram with indwelling time. The accuracy, sensitivity, specificity and AUC of the combined model were 98, 100, 97.3% and 0.999 for the training cohort, 83.3, 80, 84.5% and 0.867 for the internal cohort and 78.2, 76.3, 78.8% and 0.820 for the external cohort, respectively. DCA indicates the favorable clinical utility of models. Conclusion Machine learning model based on radiomics features enables to identify ureteral stent encrustation with high accuracy.
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- Junliang Qiu
- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Radiology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Zhuhai People’s Hospital (Zhuhai Hospital Affiliated with Jinan University), Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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- Department of Urology, Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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Massella V, Juliebø-Jones P, Pietropaolo A, Beisland C, Somani BK. Outcomes Associated with the Endourological Management of Stent Encrustation: Findings from a Literature Review on Behalf of the EAU YAU Urolithiasis Group. Curr Urol Rep 2023; 24:187-199. [PMID: 36705840 DOI: 10.1007/s11934-023-01144-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/11/2022] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Double J ureteric stents (DJs) are useful aids for urinary drainage in case of stones or tumour causing ureteric obstruction. Prolonged dwelling time such as when forgotten can lead to encrustation. Our aim was to perform a literature review to evaluate outcomes associated with endourological management of encrusted stents (ES). RECENT FINDINGS There now exist validated tools which can aid in grading the severity of encrustation and aid operative planning such as the total number of surgeries that may be required. Evaluation of different treatment strategies remains under reported. Removal of encrusted stent is a challenging problem, and it typically requires a multimodal endourological approach.
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- Virginia Massella
- Department of Urology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK
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- Department of Urology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Urology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Department of Urology, University Hospital Southampton, Southampton, UK.
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Li K, Liu X, Fan Y, Feng S, Chen D. Preventive effect of surface charge on encrustation of biodegradable ureteral stents. JOURNAL OF BIOMATERIALS SCIENCE. POLYMER EDITION 2023; 34:258-275. [PMID: 35984741 DOI: 10.1080/09205063.2022.2115760] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Prevention of encrustation on the surface has always been the biggest challenge for urological implants. In the field of ureteral stent design, biodegradability has attracted much attention in recent years, because biodegradable ureteral stents not only avoid secondary intervention, but also prevent encrustation due to surface renewal by degradation process. Furthermore, researches have focus on some surface parameters to provide guidance for the development of stent materials, such as hydrophilicity or surface charge. In this work, we synthesized two types of poly(ester-carbonate)s, poly(L-lactide-co-5-amino-1,3-dioxan-2-one) (P(LA-co-AC)) containing amino, and poly (L-lactide-co-5-methyl-5-carboxyl-1,3-dioxan-2-one) (P(LA-co-MCC)) containing carboxyl. Blending P(LA-co-AC) and P(LA-co-MCC) with poly(L-lactide-co-Ɛ-caprolactone) (PLACL) respectively, two types of ureteral stent materials were prepared. Due to the influence of ions formed by the dissociation of amino and carboxyl, two types of materials show differences in surface charge analyses. We further developed a dynamic urinary extracorporeal circulation (DUEC) system to assess in vitro encrustation of materials with different surface charges. The results of this comparative study identified that the materials with strong negative surface charge were most favorable for use as ureteral stent, and provided a new approach to surmount the problems faced by urological surgery which complied with the future trend of biodegradable ureteral stent design.
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- Kaiqi Li
- Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, PR China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China
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- Chengdu Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, PR China
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Cui H, Zhang K, Gao C, Kang Y, Jiang H. Design and characterization of a novel braided biodegradable
double‐J
ureteral stent. POLYM ADVAN TECHNOL 2022. [DOI: 10.1002/pat.5706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Haipo Cui
- Shanghai Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Institute for Minimally Invasive Therapy University of Shanghai for Science and Technology Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Interventional Medical Devices & Equipment, and Research & Engineering Academy of MicroPort Medical Group Co., Ltd Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Interventional Medical Devices & Equipment, and Research & Engineering Academy of MicroPort Medical Group Co., Ltd Shanghai People's Republic of China
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- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Interventional Medical Devices & Equipment, and Research & Engineering Academy of MicroPort Medical Group Co., Ltd Shanghai People's Republic of China
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Urinary Stent Development and Evaluation Models: In Vitro, Ex Vivo and In Vivo-A European Network of Multidisciplinary Research to Improve Urinary Stents (ENIUS) Initiative. Polymers (Basel) 2022; 14:polym14091641. [PMID: 35566810 PMCID: PMC9102855 DOI: 10.3390/polym14091641] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/21/2021] [Revised: 04/08/2022] [Accepted: 04/17/2022] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
Abstract
Background: When trying to modify urinary stents, certain pre-clinical steps have to be followed before clinical evaluation in humans. Usually, the process starts as an in silico assessment. The urinary tract is a highly complex, dynamic and variable environment, which makes a computer simulation closely reflecting physiological conditions extremely challenging. Therefore, the pre-clinical evaluation needs to go through further steps of in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo assessments. Methods and materials: Within the European Network of Multidisciplinary Research to Improve Urinary Stents (ENIUS), the authors summarized and evaluated stent assessment models in silico, in vitro, ex vivo and in vivo. The topic and relevant sub-topics were researched in a systematic literature search in Embase, Scope, Web of Science and PubMed. Clinicaltrials.gov was consulted for ongoing trials. Articles were selected systematically according to guidelines with non-relevant, non-complete, and non-English or Spanish language articles excluded. Results: In the first part of this paper, we critically evaluate in vitro stent assessment models used over the last five decades, outlining briefly their strengths and weaknesses. In the second part, we provide a step-by-step guide on what to consider when setting up an ex vivo model for stent evaluation on the example of a biodegradable stent. Lastly, the third part lists and discusses the pros and cons of available animal models for urinary stent evaluation, this being the final step before human trials. Conclusions: We hope that this overview can provide a practical guide and a critical discussion of the experimental pre-clinical evaluation steps needed, which will help interested readers in choosing the right methodology from the start of a stent evaluation process once an in silico assessment has been completed. Only a transparent multidisciplinary approach using the correct methodology will lead to a successful clinical implementation of any new or modified stent.
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Hinojosa-Gonzalez DE, Torres-Martinez M, Villegas-De Leon SU, Galindo-Garza C, Roblesgil-Medrano A, Alanis-Garza C, Gonzalez-Bonilla E, Barrera-Juarez E, Flores-Villalba E. Emergent urinary decompression in acute stone-related urinary obstruction: A systematic review and meta-analysis. JOURNAL OF CLINICAL UROLOGY 2021. [DOI: 10.1177/20514158211017027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Introduction: Emergent urinary decompression through percutaneous nephrostomy (PCN) or ureteric stent (URS) remains a mainstay in the management of urethral calculi-related obstruction with associated signs of infection or renal injury. Available evidence has shown similar performance, and current guidelines endorse both treatment strategies. Methods: A systematic review was performed following Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis criteria up until August 2020. Studies included data on stone size and location, operative time, complications, length of stay, analgesic consumption, quality of life (QoL), and clinical outcomes between URS and PCN. Results: Ten studies with a total population of 772, of which 420 were treated with URS and 352 with PCN, were included. No statistical difference in operative time between both techniques was found. Nevertheless, length of stay in PCN was longer than in USR, with a mean difference of −1.87 days ((95% CI −2.69 to −1.06), Z=4.50, p=0.00001). No differences were found in the time to normalization of temperature or white blood cell counts. There were no significant differences in success rates, with an overall odds ratio (OR) of 0.60 ((95% CI 0.26 to −1.40), Z=1.17, p=0.24), or spontaneous passage after emergent drainage between groups. Complication rates ranged from 5% to 25% in URS and from 0% to 38% in PCN. In the studied population, out of the 157 patients from four studies describing complications, only 5% of URS procedures presented complications compared to 2% in PCN, showing a relatively low complication rate for either group (OR=2.07 (95% CI 0.89–4.84), Z=1.68, p=0.09). Differences in QoL were not significant. Conclusion: Both methods are equally effective, with no clear advantage for PCN over URS. Level of evidence: IV
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- Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
- Escuela Nacional de Ingeniería, Departamento de Ciencias Clínicas, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Hospital Zambrano Hellion, Col. Real de San Agustin, Mexico
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