Do We Need Augmented Reality for Renal Stone Management?

14 Aug 2025 10:00 10:15
Takaaki InoueJapan Speaker New Advancement on Retrograde Intrarenal SurgeryRetrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS) has dramatically grown up around world for stone management. Why has RIRS been getting popullar and increasing nowadays?. The reaseon are absoulutely "Technological development with collaborated engineering comapny" and " Global communicaton and collaboration in Endourology". Endourology has still been improving and expanding more and more. Thereby, many novel devices and machine are launching faster. We, urologists should catch up this faster trend and acquire these knowledge for our clinical use. However, most of urologists can not catch up it. Therefore, I will share you all these novel chage of mind and tech-knowledge of stone field in this session. Do We Need Augmented Reality for Renal Stone Management?What is Augmented reality and Vertual reality in medicine?. The paradigm shift of medicine which includes AI, Robotics, VR, and AR etc named Digital transformation has been still emerging. Of course, these shift is gradually permeating in stone field. Especially, in terms of VR, AR, we wonder if this kind of DX is useful in stone management. if so, how do we use it in clinical practice? Today, I will talk these future role in stone management, and expectation. Which Laser for RIRS: Pulsed Thulium YAG Laser We can use three kind of laser such as Holumium YAG, Thulium YAG, and Thulium fiber laser for stone management. Which lase are best option for stone patients? I will talk about featurs and advantage of pulsed-Thulium YAG laser. There are two kinds of p-Tm;YAG laser machine nowadays. P^Tm;YAG has unique characteristics as laser wave. Therefore, this laser would be able to use Stone, BPH, UTUC. Especially, p-Tm YAG laser can utilize for Stone ablation, fragmentingand and UTUC ablation, shock wave. We will share our experoence and thoughts. New Advancement on Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery