[Risks and complications of surgical treatment of urinary lithiasis of single kidney].

163 patients with urolithiasis of the solitary kidney were treated surgically. Analysis of causes of postoperative complications (n = 70) and lethal outcomes (n = 11) demonstrate that lethal outcomes were in many cases related to exacerbation of renal failure, acute calculous pyelonephritis which had provoked sepsis and bacteriotoxic shock, acute hemorrhage with hemorrhagic shock followed by development of DIC-syndrome.