Potential strategies to prevent encrustations on urinary stents and catheters – thinking outside the box: a European network of multidisciplinary research to improve urinary stents (ENIUS) initiative
Ali Abou‐Hassan, Alexandre A. Barros, Noor Buchholz, Dario Carugo, Francesco Clavica, Petra de Graaf, Julia de la Cruz, Wolfgang Kram, Filipe J. Mergulhão, Rui L. Reis, Ilya Skovorodkin, Federico Soria, Seppo Vainio, Shaokai Zheng
Abstract
All research lines addressed in this paper seem viable and promising. Some of them have been around for decades but are yet to proceed to clinical application (i.e. tissue engineering). Others are very recent and, at least in urology, still only conceptual (i.e. antisense molecules). Perhaps the most important learning point resulting from this pan-European multidisciplinary effort is that collaboration between all stakeholders is not only fruitful but also truly essential.
Topics & Concepts
Urinary systemMultidisciplinary approachStentMedicineTranslational researchNanotechnologyIntensive care medicineSurgeryInternal medicineMaterials sciencePathologySociologySocial scienceUreteral procedures and complicationsInfectious Aortic and Vascular ConditionsUrinary Tract Infections Management