Ablation rates with Holmium:YAG and Thulium Fiber Laser: Influence of the stone phantom homogeneity. An in vitro study.
Holmium:YAG laser
Laser
Laser Holmium:YAG
Laser thulium fibré
Thulium Fiber Laser
Journal
Progres en urologie : journal de l'Association francaise d'urologie et de la Societe francaise d'urologie
ISSN: 1166-7087
Titre abrégé: Prog Urol
Pays: France
ID NLM: 9307844
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Aug 2023
Aug 2023
Historique:
received:
15
03
2023
revised:
19
06
2023
accepted:
22
06
2023
medline:
24
7
2023
pubmed:
14
7
2023
entrez:
13
7
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The lithotripsy efficiency (LE) in vitro study requires artificial or human stone samples (AS, HS). With the development of dusting lithotripsy, less ex vivo HS are available. We aimed to compare Thulium Fiber Laser (TFL) and Holmium:YAG (Ho:YAG)'s LE and define the most accurate LE parameter. Hard and soft homogenous- and heterogenous-AS (Ho-AS, He-AS) were made to reproduce calcium-oxalate monohydrate and uric acid stones, respectively by a rapid or slow brewing of BegostonePlus (Bego) and distilled water. One hundred and fifty and 272μm-laser fibers, connected to 50W-TFL and 30W-HoYAG generators, compared three settings for TFL (FD: 0.15J/100Hz; D: 0.5J/30Hz; Fr: 1J/15Hz) and two for Ho:YAG (D-Fr). An experimental setup consisted in immerged 10mm cubic stone phantoms with a 20 seconds' lasing spiral, in contact mode, repeated four times. Stones were dried, weighted and μ-scanned (ablation weight and volume [AW and AV]). With He-AS, dusting AV were four- and three-fold higher with TFL compared to Ho:YAG against hard and soft (P<0.05). In fragmentation, AV were two-fold higher with TFL compared to Ho:YAG against hard (P<0.05) and soft (P<0.05). Experiments with Ho-AS were associated with non-significant differences when comparing TFL-150μm and TFL-272μm. The ablation weight-volume correlation coefficients was higher with Ho-AS than with He-AS (P<0.0001), and with hard than soft AS. If the LE can be estimated by the AW with hard AS, this approximation is not consistent for soft AS. TFL presented higher ablation rates than Ho:YAG, significant with He-AS. If the AW is acceptable and less expensive for hard Ho-AS, AV are more accurate for He-AS, which are suggested to imitate closely HS.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37442755
pii: S1166-7087(23)00126-4
doi: 10.1016/j.purol.2023.06.002
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Thulium
8RKC5ATI4P
Holmium
W1XX32SQN1
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
456-462Informations de copyright
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