Kidney Stones: Don’t Ignore These Signs Kidney stones are a prevalent illness related to the urinary system. Commonly known as nephrolith or renal calculi, these stones are hard deposits of salt and minerals called kidney stones that can develop in the kidneys and spread to other regions of the urinary system. An imbalance in urine’s…
When one or both of your kidneys are in renal failure, they can no longer function on their own. Kidney failure can occur suddenly and is occasionally transitory (acute). Sometimes it’s a chronic (long-term) illness that deteriorates gradually. Diabetes, hypertension, and recent renal injury are contributing factors. Without treatment, it is lethal. You may make…
Prostate cancer is a common type of cancer in men. It is cancer that starts in the prostate gland, which is a part of the male reproductive system. The prostate is a small, walnut-shaped gland located below the bladder and in front of the rectum. The prostate gland produces semen, which transports it during ejaculation.…
Risks and Side Effects of Shock Wave Lithotripsy for Kidney Stones Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is used best only to treat smaller stones that are located inside the kidney or upper part of the ureter. The stone’s size, existing medical conditions, and body structure have to fit into the eligibility criteria for shock wave lithotripsy…
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Treatment options for kidney stones are usually based on their size, location, and type. If the patient is able to pass a small kidney stone through urination without any intervention, the only treatment that may be needed is to drink plenty of water and other liquids to move the stone along the urinary tract. Pain…
Urological and kidney care has seen dramatic changes over the past years with focus on the shift from open surgical procedures with limited drug treatments to a specialty that has successfully embraced minimally invasive techniques and new drug treatments for common conditions such as erectile dysfunction, urinary incontinence, kidney stones and kidney transplants.
Kidney stones were very rare among children or teens and is now increasingly common. The annual incidence of kidney stones has gone up in the recent years and has almost doubled in children. In contrast to the more common occurrence of kidney stones in men than in women during middle age, teenage girls have a higher rate of kidney stone occurrence than boys of the same age group.
The incidence of kidney stone disease is also rising world over!. Poor lifestyle habits, improper dietary food patterns combined with obesity are among the top causes of kidney stones. Moreover, the pain of kidney stone is highly intolerable. Patients reel and sometimes they can faint from the pain.
From a clinical perspective, we strongly recommend medical treatment and conservative management for stones that are less than 5 mm in size. Furthermore, for most stone sizes less than 5 mm in size, with a combination of medications and aggressive fluid therapy we can expect the stone to be expelled out of the body roughly in about 4 to 6 weeks.
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