Dr Silvia Proietti graduated at the University of Perugia, Italy in 2006, Magnum cum laude. During her Residency, she won LLP-Erasmus Student Placement and spent 4 months at Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust of London, under the direction of Professor Prokar Dasgupta; she also developed particular interest in functional urology, under the supervision of Professor Antonella Giannantoni. From 2012 to 2015, she was member of staff of the Urology Department at Humanitas Clinical and Research Center in Milan and in particular at the “Stone Center” directed by Dr Guido Giusti. In 2015, she did a 6-month fellowship in endourology at Tenon University Hospital under the direction of Professor Olivier Traxer. She is currently working at the Urology Department of San Raffaele Hospital, Ville Turro Division, in Milan, principally performing endourological treatment of stones and upper urinary tract tumors, which represent her main field of interest.
Selected publications from PubMed
Complications following repeated ureteroscopy for UTUC: The price to pay for nephron-sparing surgery.
Scilipoti P, Occhi A, Robesti D, Folcia A, Corsini C, Ramadani R, Galdieri A, Proietti S, Giusti G, Ventimiglia E, Candela L, Traxer O, Salonia A, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Moschini M, Villa L
BJU Int. 2026 Aug;138(2):334-342 doi: 10.1111/bju.70331.
Parameter mapping for the use of flexible and navigable suction sheath: an in vitro study.
Hernandez-Gaytan CA, Proietti S, Kottooran C, Villanueva-Congote J, De Leonardis F, Eisner BH, Gaboardi F, Giusti G
Urolithiasis. 2026 Jun 6;54(1) pii: 109. doi: 10.1007/s00240-026-01999-y.
Ureteroscope-sheath size mismatch affects intrarenal pressure during suction-assisted flexible ureteroscopy: a human ex vivo study.
Folcia A, Scilipoti P, Robesti D, Corsini C, Ramadani R, Candela L, Ventimiglia E, Proietti S, Giusti G, Briganti A, Montorsi F, Salonia A, Traxer O, Villa L
BJU Int. 2026 Jun;137(6):973-975 doi: 10.1111/bju.70212.
Challenges in Follow-up After Kidney-sparing Surgery for Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: Insights from a Delphi Consensus.
Figaroa O, Schuil H, Kamphuis G, van den Brink L, Hendriks N, Henderickx M, Bins A, van Moorselaar J, Ajayi L, Bus M, Cavadas V, Cracco CM, Andrea DD, Dasgupta R, Coninck V, Durutovic O, Ebbensgaard I, Ferretti S, Gallioli A, Keller EX, Keeley FX Jr, Sloth Osther PJ, Popiolek M, Pradere B, Proietti S, Saltirov I, Somani B, Tailly T, Thomas K, Turney B, Ulvik Ø, Haute CV, van der Heij B, Vasquez JL, Brehmer M, Baard J
Eur Urol Oncol. 2025 Oct;8(5):1303-1310 doi: 10.1016/j.euo.2025.07.003.
Transforming Endourology Through Innovation and Patient-centered Progress in Stone Disease.
Ghani KR, Proietti S
Eur Urol Focus. 2025 Sep;11(5):677-678 doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2025.11.009.
Endourology is a relatively young surgical endeavor, with the first percutaneous nephrolithotomy performed in the early 1980s.
With Boston Scientific
Published
Dec 2021
Urolithiasis is a common health disorder in the Western World with a lifetime risk of stone formation as high as 10– 12% in males and 6–8% in females and the prevalence of stone disease is on the rise over the past two decades. Similarly, also the incidence of bilateral renal stones is not negligible—recent studies have shown that up to 15% of patients with urolithiasis will have bilateral renal stones. It has been demonstrated that bilateral same-session endourological procedures for stones are effective in terms of both efficacy (i.e., stone-free rate or SFR) and safety. Moreover, same-session bilateral procedures for nephrolithiasis are associated with several advantages, including single anesthetic exposure for the patient, shorter cumulative hospitalization time, fewer days out of work, decreased patient radiation exposure, and greater overall cost effectiveness. Historically, same-session bilateral procedures have been performed by the surgeon first completing the treatment on one side and then completing the treatment on the other side—that is, treating the stones in the right ureter and/or kidney first, and then proceeding with treatment of the left ureter and/or kidney or vice versa. However, a potentially more efficient treatment option is simultaneous bilateral endoscopic surgery (SBES), which entails at least two surgeons working simultaneously, each treating one kidney or ureter as opposed to treating one kidney after the other. Potential advantages would include improvements in efficiency—treatment of both renal units with shorter anesthetic time and also a decrease in the total number of procedures that a given patient may require. To date, there are sparse reports in the literature on the safety and efficacy of SBES. Herein, we demonstrate a case of SBES for bilateral renal stones.
With Boston Scientific
Published
Mar 2019
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