“…Even so, findings by these and other investigators of such phenomena as intraparenchymal hemorrhage, reduced renal blood flow, and urinary excretion of enzymatic markers of cellular injury naturally led to speculation that ischemia and subsequent tissue injury had occurred. In addition, other researchers proposed that oxidative stress associated with ischemia induced by SWL may also contribute to the resulting tissue injury (Sarica et al, 1996a;Cohen et al, 1998;Brown et al, 2000;Munver et al, 2002). Support for a possible role of oxidative stress in the tubular injury caused by shock waves comes from several studies in which inhibitors of oxidative stress reduced the urinary excretion of enzymatic markers of tubular injury (Strohmaier et al, 1991(Strohmaier et al, , 1993(Strohmaier et al, , 1994a(Strohmaier et al, , b, 1999(Strohmaier et al, , 2002Benyi et al, 1995;Ogiste et al, 2003) or diminished the histological signs of tissue injury (Fegan et al, 1991;Yaman et al, 1996;Sarica et al, 1997;Biri et al, 1998) after SWL.…”