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Urology

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Urological admissions and surgical procedures are among the most frequent in current hospital care. Most systemic diseases related to the aging population, such as diabetes, have direct or indirect urological consequences.

Modern urology began with the development of sophisticated instruments that illuminate the inside of the body. Urology has developed into a field of medicine in which science, technical developments, diagnostic procedures and invasive and non-invasive therapeutic measures operate at a very high level.

Several fields pose future challenges. These include the development of techniques to treat urological disease (like kidney and bladder stones) with minimal damage to healthy tissues (minimal invasive surgery) and better treatment of common urological diseases, such as benign prostatic enlargement (a disease that affects most men at a certain age).

Urology today would be unthinkable without the diagnostic and therapeutic methods of modern endoscopy. Cystoscopy, transurethral prostate resection (TURP) and urethrotomy are now routine practices that are constantly being improved with new technologies.

Indispensable endourological products include

  • Modified high-frequency surgical appliances.
  • Working elements for the operation of laser probes.
  • Lithotripsy devices for the bladder, ureter and kidneys.
  • Rigid and flexible optics for use in the ureter.
  • Instruments for atraumatic removal of renal calculi.

Instruments for laparoscopy and pediatric urology as well as flexible cysto-uretero-renoscopes supplement the range of urological technologies.