Amelia Pietropaolo

BLAST—bladder lithiasis assessment of surgical treatment in real-world practice. A global prospective multicentre registry by EAU Endourology

This registry aimed to establish a comprehensive global database to characterise contemporary real-world surgical approaches to bladder stones and to describe postoperative stone-free rate (SFR) and complications according to the surgical treatment route. The BLAST (Bladder Lithiasis Assessment of Surgical Treatment) r...

Laser versus Mechanical Lithotripsy for Endourological Treatment of Bladder Stones: A Prospective Multicenter Analysis from the EAU-Endourology Bladder Lithiasis Assessment of Surgical Treatment (BLAST) registry

Patient awareness and perceptions of a kidney stone multidisciplinary team (MDT): a questionnaire survey

Baseline understanding of MDT working was limited, highlighting opportunities to improve patient information and communication and future work should use validated tools, broader multicentre recruitment and objective clinical and patient-reported outcomes to evaluate MDT-based care.