Results:
Of the patients with staghorn renal stones,139 were in Group-1 and 43 were in Group-2. The mean age of the patients was 43.9±10.6 years for Group-1 and 67.8±2.1 years for Group-2(p=0.001).
The amount of hemoglobin drop was statistically significantly higher in Group-1 (p=0.001). However, blood transfusion rate was higher in Group-2 than in Group-1 (18.6% and 7.2%, respectively). The stone-free rate was 54.7% in Group-1 and 67.4% in Group-2(p=0.139). According to the evaluation of the overall complication rates,34.5% of the patients in Group-1 and 46.5% of those in Group-2 developed complications(p=0.206).
According to the Clavien scoring system, the rate of minor complications was found to be 22.3% in Group-1 and 41.9% in Group-2,and the difference was statistically significant (p=0.012). The major complication rates were determined as 4.7% and 12.2% for Group-1 and Group-2, respectively (p=0.155). The number of patients with Clavien grade-2 complications was statistically higher in the elderly patient group (p=0.019).