Pediatric ureteroscopy in underprivileged preschool patients: Single-center perspective
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Abstract
Background: The incidence of stone disease in the pediatric age group dramatically increased in developing countries like Sudan. Despite, the challenges in the management of ureteral stone in the aforementioned age group, ureteroscopy (URS), lithotripsy using Holmium Laser (HO) has been reported as standard effective and safe. The aim of this study is to assess the outcome of URS lithotripsy using HO in preschool patients younger than 5 years of age. Materials and Methods: The results of treatment in 42 patients, who had undergone intervention for ureter stones at Gezira Hospital for Renal Disease and Surgery-Sudan, were prospectively evaluated. Miniscopes with an HO were used for lithotripsy. Results: The mean patient's age was 2.5 ± 1.2 years (1–4 years). The success rate was 69.9% after an average follow-up of 16 months (range 10–24). The majority 81% (n = 34) of study cases were presented with ureteric stones, which comprised 52.4% (n = 22) unilateral and 28.6% (n = 12) bilateral. The cases of unilateral and bilateral stricture include 6 and 2 cases, respectively. After the procedure, the ureteric stenting (double J) was used in 81% of the cases. The perioperative complication rate was 31.0%, and the most common complication was a failure of cannulation followed by the false passage. The mortality rate was zero. Conclusion: URS is considered safe and effective method for pediatric ureteric stones. The size of ureteroscope has an important role in the outcome and complications.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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