{"id":843,"date":"2017-02-09T22:43:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-02-09T22:43:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T03:43:22","slug":"tamsulosin-and-kidney-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Tamsulosin and Kidney Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are 3 recent studies regarding this subject:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hollingsworth et al. Alpha blockers for treatment of ureteric stones: systematic review and meta-analysis.<\/a>
    \nThe greatest benefit might be among those with larger stones.<\/li>\n
  2. Wang RC et al. Effect of Tamsulosin on Stone Passage for Ureteral Stones: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
    \n<\/a>Tamsulosin significantly improves stone passage in patients with larger stones<\/li>\n
  3. Pourmand et al. Tamsulosin for urolithiasis: a review of the recent literature and current controversies.<\/a>
    \nTamsulosin may also increase patient satisfaction by reducing the invasive treatment and decreasing the time to stone passage.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There are 3 recent studies regarding this subject: Hollingsworth et al. Alpha blockers for treatment of ureteric stones: systematic review and meta-analysis. The greatest benefit might be among those with larger stones. Wang RC et al. Effect of Tamsulosin on Stone Passage for Ureteral Stones: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Tamsulosin significantly improves stone passage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14,15,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pgy1","category-pgy2","category-pgy3","category-pgy4","category-urology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeddoc.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}