Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Amount

$977,615.00

Award Date

9/24/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Lithotripsy still accounts for more than half of all treatments for kidney stone disease, it is gradually being replaced by minimally-invasive procedures, such as ureteroscopy and percutaneous nephrolithotomy. These more invasive procedures are likely the