key: cord-0770385-jue3ae6o
authors: Tefik, Tzevat; Guven, Selcuk; Villa, Luca; Gokce, Mehmet Ilker; Kallidonis, Panagiotis; Petkova, Kremena; Kiremit, Murat Can; Sonmez, Mehmet Giray; de Lorenzis, Elisa; Eryildirim, Bilal; Sarica, Kemal
title: Urolithiasis Practice Patterns Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: Overview from the EULIS Collaborative Research Working Group
date: 2020-04-27
journal: Eur Urol
DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2020.04.057
sha: 0e4a23dcabf0bc5d773c80a6e8bcc0f67baa1245
doc_id: 770385
cord_uid: jue3ae6o

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. Apart from being a potentially lethal 9 condition, COVID-19 is also affecting health care strategies 10 for other medical conditions. Ficarra et al [2] have made 11 suggestions regarding urological surgeries during the 12 COVID-19 pandemic. However, the authors focused on all 13 urological pathologies and reported information from Italy, 14 a country that seemed to be the epicenter of the pandemic 15 in Europe [2] . Therefore, we sought to obtain an up-to-date The distribution of the countries involved is given in 31 reported a change of >90% in (Fig. 1A) . Among the experts, 38 72.3% used telemedicine during the pandemic (Fig. 1B) . to perform stone removal procedures in these cases. Some 44 43% of respondents continued to use a surgical mask as 45 before the pandemic, whereas 17% did not perform surgery.

Regarding eye protection, 25.5% started using goggles, 21.3% 47 were already using goggles, and 34% did not shift to the use 48 of goggles as part of their pandemic response. immediately after the first case report on COVID-19.

In many European countries, the pandemic started more E U R O P E A N U R O L O G Y X X X ( 2 0 1 9 ) X X X -X X X 

Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized 141 patients with 2019 novel coronavirus

Urology practice during COVID-143

Retrograde 145 intrarenal surgery with combined spinal-epidural vs general anes