The patient recovered well and outpatient investigations revealed the following: (1) a 5 mm distal right ureteric calculus and a further 7-mm calculus more distally on repeat CT, (2) kidney split function of the left kidney 17%, and of the right 83% on the DMSA renogram. The patient desired an improved quality of life and wanted to be free of repeated urosepsis and free of the insertion of nephrostomy. In view of this, an open left nephrectomy was performed 13 months later, following a period of haemodialysis. A nephrostogram demonstrated a right renal obstruction due to an ureteric stricture, showing inflammatory changes secondary to the patient’s infected stones.