Table 1.

Overview of the included studies.

Studies	Year	Sort Study	Timing of Stent Removal	Number of Patients	Urinary Tract Infection	Major Urological Complication	Urinary Leakage	Ureteral Stenosis
Yuksel et al. [23]	2017	Retrospective	5–7 days	153	x	x
			8–14 days	165
			15–21 days	283
			>22 days	217
Patel et al. [21]	2017	RCT	5 days	79	x	x	x	x
			6 weeks	126
Sarier et al. [22]	2017	Retrospective	15–21 days	28	x
			21–28 days	54
			28–35 days	25
Wingate et al. [8]	2017	Retrospective	<3 weeks	143	x
			>3 weeks	161
Liu et al. [20]	2016	RCT	7 days	52	x	x	x	x
			28 days	51
Dadkhah et al. [37]	2016	Prospective	10 days	164	x	x	x
			20 days	162
			30 days	112
Asgari et al. [38]	2016	Retrospective	10 days	30	x	x	x
			20 days	31
			30 days	30
Gunawansa et al. [36]	2014(1)	Prospective	6 days	203	x	x		x
		randomised	28 days	179
Soldano et al. [35]	2014(2)	Retrospective	5 days	47	x	x	x
			6 weeks	47
Lee et al. [34]	2013(3)	Retrospective	5 days	26	x	x
			6 weeks	26
Huang et al. [33]	2012	Retrospective	3 weeks	179	x	x	x	x
			6 weeks	186
Indu et al. [31]	2012	Prospective RCT	7 days	50	x	x	x
			28 days	50
Coskun et al. [13]	2011	Retrospective	13–14 days	10	x	x
			>20 days	38
Verma et al. [32]	2002	Retrospective	2 weeks	52	x	x	x	x
			4 weeks	57

RCT: Randomised controlled trial. (1) Abstract of the 17th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation; (2) Abstract of the the World Transplant Congress 2014; and (3) Abstract of the 16th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation.