W J Lee

TL;DR: Of 582 patients who underwent percutaneous nephrolithotomy, 4% had complications and there were two deaths--one from respiratory failure in a patient with severe interstitial pulmonary fibrosis and chronic renal failure and the other from myocardial infarction in an obese diabetic patient with hypertension.

TL;DR: The authors' experience indicates that percutaneous pyelotomy is an effective alternative to traditional open pyeloplasty and has a similar success rate, lower morbidity, and a shorter recovery time.

TL;DR: Except in patients with long lesions, high insertion of the ureter, or an enormously redundant renal pelvis, endopyelotomy gives excellent results with less morbidity and a shorter recovery time than open pyeloplasty.