ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2023
Medical Expulsive Therapy for Pediatric Ureteral Stones: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Clinical Trials.
Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A holistic guide to effective prevention and treatment for kidney stones: a systematic review exploring anti-urolithiasis approaches.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Pooled it
- International Alliance of Urolithiasis (IAU) guidelines on the management of pediatric urolithiasis.Urolithiasis · 2024Guideline
- Efficacy and safety of α1-adrenergic blockers after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in pediatric kidney stones.Pediatric surgery international · 2026Trial
- A prospective randomized trial comparing dusting and fragmentation techniques using Holmium:YAG laser for pediatric ureteral stones.The Canadian journal of urology · 2025Trial
- Contemporary metabolic evaluation, medical and minimally invasive management of stones in children.Urolithiasis · 2025Review
- The Effect of Preoperative Tamsulosin on Pediatric Ureteroscopic Access: A Multi-Institutional Experience.Urology practice · 2025Article
- Efficacy of Silodosin and Tadalafil monotherapy versus combination of both drugs as MET for distal ureteric stones: A prospective, double blinded, randomized clinical trial.Arab journal of urology · 2025Article
- Visualizing the landscape of urolithiasis research from 1979-2023: a global bibliometric analysis of randomized clinical trials.Urolithiasis · 2024Article
- Management of Pediatric Urolithiasis in an Italian Tertiary Referral Center: A Retrospective Analysis.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
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Abstract
To evaluate the efficacy and safety of medical expulsive therapy (MET) for ureteral stones in pediatric patients, Cochrane, PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, and the reference list of retrieved studies were searched up to September 2022 to identify RCTs on the efficacy of MET. The protocol was prospectively registered at PROSPERO (CRD42022339093). Articles were reviewed, data were extracted by two reviewers, and the differences were resolved by the third reviewer. The risk of bias was assessed using the RoB2. The outcomes, including the stone expulsion rate (SER), stone expulsion time (SET), episode of pain, analgesic consumption, and adverse effects, were evaluated. Six RCTs enrolling 415 patients were included in the meta-analysis. The duration of MET ranged from 19 to 28 days. The investigated medications included tamsulosin, silodosin, and doxazosin. The stone-free rate after 4 weeks in the MET group was 1.42 times that of the control group (RR: 1.42; 95% CI: 1.26-1.61,
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