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Removing
Kidney Stones
For removing kidney
stones from the uretery system, some home remedies and medical
treatment are very vital. However, for the kidney stones,
which are large in shape; critical surgeries and expert's
treatment becomes the last alternative. However, feel free,
apart from home remedies, the advanced surgery, new techniques
from medical science is the solution for removing kidney
stones pain.
In some cases, these
kidney stones are so large that it is very painful to adapt
the home remedies. So medical treatments are the last options
to lessen this stone plane. Previously the recognized
physicians had limited options like surgery for removing
kidney stones problems. Now due to advanced research in
medical science, there are various advanced techniques like
shock waves, tunnel surgery, ureteroscopy that assist the
patient to get rid of kidney stone. For removing the pain of
kidney stones, the doctor firstly check the size, shape and
type of the kidney stones. Also is very important for the
doctor to consider the kidney stag of the patient.
In this shock wave
treatment, a physician uses a particular machine to throw
shock waves in a straight line for detecting the kidney
stones. So that waves helps out to break the outsized stones
into small pieces and then these small pieces wash out and
exerts from your urinary system of your body in the form of
urine. The full name for this method is extracorporeal shock
wave lithotripsy. Doctors often call it ESWL for its short
form. Lithotripsy is a Greek word that means stone crushing.
ESWL is the treatment
of choice for the people whose kidney stones are smaller than
3 cm. People that may not be able to tolerate open surgery.
This technique is used for removing kidney stones of such
People who have health problems like diabetes,breathing
abnormalities, heart diseases and hypertension.
Two techniques are
existing in this ESWL with two types of shock wave. Firstly,
you can sit in a pot of water with one machine. Secondly, a
stretch out on a table with mainly latest machines. X-ray
images are used by the physician to direct the sound waves to
the stone.
After that, the tunnel
surgery is the next option for removing kidney stones. In
medical terms, it is called as percutaneous nephrolithotomy. A
small scratch is made by the doctor into the backside of the
patient. Then, he makes a slim tunnel through the skin to the
stone within the kidney. The doctor uses a special instrument,
which goes through that tunnel or burrow. Finally, doctor
finds the stone and gets rid of this kidney stone.
The next technique for
removing kidney stones is called as ureteroscopy that looks
like a long wire. In this technique, a wire is inserted in the
urethra where the stone is to be found. This technique has
built-in camera, which makes possible for the doctor to view
the pictures of the kidney stones and finally a cage is used
for removing the kidney stones.
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