Anche nel 2021 il COVID-19 rimane un’emergenza mondiale e continua a influire in modo determinante sulla nostra vita professionale e personale. Eppure, altre malattie, come la litiasi renale, non sono semplicemente scomparse in seguito alla pandemia di coronavirus.

Il filmato clinico mostra il processo di una litotrissia extracorporea a onde d’urto (ESWL) con MODULITH^® SLX-F2 »connect« dando la parola sia al medico sia al paziente.

On 25 September 2020, Dr Marie-Claire Rassweiler-Seyfried (University Hospital Mannheim, Department of Urology and Urosurgery, Mannheim/Germany) received the »Christian Chaussy Award 2020« for her research* on electrohydraulic high-frequency ESWL. Her research focus was the evaluation of kidney damage.

40 years ago, on 7 February 1980, the first treatment of a kidney stone patient with shock waves was performed at the Department of Urology of Munich University Hospital based at the Grosshardern campus. Several STORZ MEDICAL employees from the company’s research, development and marketing departments were present to witness the historic event, which ushered in a new era in medical technology: the era of extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL).

In early 2021, pro triathlete Caroline Livesey and her husband Mark headed to Costa Rica in search of a gravel cycling adventure. They embarked on a challenge to ride across the country from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean in...