Kazumi Taguchi and Sung Yong Cho and Anthony CF Ng and Manint Usawachintachit and Yung‐Khan Tan and Yao Liang Deng and Cheng‐Huang Shen and Prem Gyawali and Husain Alenezi and Abbas Basiri and Sopheap Bou and Tarmono Djojodimedjo and Kemal Sarica and Lei Shi and Praveen Singam and Shrawan Kumar Singh and Takahiro Yasui (2019) The Urological Association of Asia clinical guideline for urinary stone disease. International Journal of Urology, 26 (7). pp. 688-709. ISSN 1442-2042

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Abstract

The Urological Association of Asia, consisting of 25 member associations and one affiliated member since its foundation in 1990, has planned to develop Asian guidelines for all urological fields. The field of stone diseases is the third of its guideline projects. Because of the different climates, and social, economic and ethnic environments, the clinical practice for urinary stone diseases widely varies among the Asian countries. The committee members of the Urological Association of Asia on the clinical guidelines for urinary stone disease carried out a surveillance study to better understand the diversity of the treatment strategy among different regions and subsequent systematic literature review through PubMed and MEDLINE database between 1966 and 2017. Levels of evidence and grades of recommendation for each management were decided according to the relevant strategy. Each clinical question and answer were thoroughly reviewed and discussed by all committee members and their colleagues, with suggestions from expert representatives of the American Urological Association and European Association of Urology. However, we focused on the pragmatic care of patients and our own evidence throughout Asia, which included recent surgical trends, such as miniaturized percutaneous nephrolithotomy and endoscopic combined intrarenal surgery. This guideline covers all fields of stone diseases, from etiology to recurrence prevention. Here, we present a short summary of the first version of the guideline – consisting 43 clinical questions – and overview its key practical issues.

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