Review on renal recovery after anatrophic nephrolithotomy: Are we really healing our patients?

Table 2 Renal function after percutaneous nephrolithotomy

Ref.	n	Follow up	Parameter	Renal function improvement/stabilization	Renal function decrease
Ekelund et al[25]	11	14 d	DTPA	73%	27%
Moskovitz et al[26]	88	1.5-24 mo	SPECT/DMSA	Total percent uptake unchanged	Decreased functional volume of the treated region
Tok et al[27]	711	12-24 h	eGFR	13% improvement in the geriatric group	2% decreased in the non-geriatric group
Kuzgunbay et al[28]	16	51.1 mo	Serum creatinine	75%	25%
El-Nahas et al[29]	122	12 mo	Tc99m MAG3	91.5%	8.5%
Nouralizadeh et al[30]	94	48 h	eGFR	0%	100%
Akman et al[31]	272	37.3 mo	eGFR	79.6%	20.4%
Ozden et al[32]	69	45.7 mo	eGFR	85%	15%

DTPA: 99mTc-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid; SPECT/DMSA: Single photon emission computed tomography; eGFR: Estimated glomerular filtration rate; Tc99m MAG3: Technichium99 metastable Mercaptoacetyltriglycine.