Birmingham Urology Clinic

A ureteric stent is a small, hollow tube which is put inside your ureter (the tube that drains urine from your kidney to your bladder). It is curled at both ends to keep the upper end fixed inside the kidney, and the lower end in place inside your bladder. 

• blockage of the ureter - the tube draining urine from the kidney to the bladder can be blocked by stones, stone

         fragments, scarring, external compression or other factors

• before lithotripsy – to create some space around a stone so that it

         will respond better to shockwave treatment

• to allow the ureter to heal – either after injury to the ureter, major

        abdominal (tummy) surgery on the bladder or ureter, or after endoscopic surgery within the ureter itself