What are Kidney Stones? A kidney stone is a hard, ...

What are Kidney Stones?
A kidney stone is a hard, crystalline mineral material formed within the kidney or urinary tract.

Why stones formed?
Kidney stones form when there is a decrease in urine volume and/or an excess of stone-forming substances in the urine.

How do you suspect?
Symptoms of a kidney stone include flank pain  and blood in the urine (hematuria).

How do you diagnose?
Diagnosis of kidney stones is best accomplished using an ultrasound, intravenous pyleography (IVP), or a CT scan.

Treatment options?
Most kidney stones will pass through the ureter to the bladder on their own with time usually less than 1 cm size.
Treatment includes pain-control medications and, in some cases, medications to facilitate the passage of urine.
If needed, lithotripsy or surgical techniques may be used for stones which do not pass through the ureter to the bladder on their own.

What are different surgical options?
Open surgery
Laparoscopic surgery
PCNL

Some selected cases can be treated without surgery by ESWL.

For more details and to consult urosurgeon call 9112220434 for appointment at Pawar Surgical Hospital, Hadapsar, Pune.