Kidney Stones Treatment

Kidney stones often less than 5 mm from the urine itself , sometimes causing obstruction and pain calculus can be used analgesics such as diclofenac, or smooth muscle antispasmodic agents such as buscopan, to make the ureter expansion , accelerated stone discharge . The best patients to drink more water , more than three liters per day , and moderate exercise helps remove kidney stones . Larger stones can cause serious obstruction or hematuria , infection and other conditions, you need a urologist intervention .
Since the 1990s , the majority of patients with kidney stones can be used extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , minimal damage to the body , but are generally not hospitalized . Some stones can not be solved with shock you need to use an endoscope , such as ureteroscopy ( enter from the urethra, like the size of an incense stick ) , or kidney mirror ( from ventral hit a hole into the kidneys , like the size of a straw ) , clip out or wash out after the break stones . There are lasers, electric shock , ultrasound, pneumatic lithotripsy , mechanical methods such as broken stones broken clamp method . Only a handful of patients need surgery to remove the stones with a traditional way , mostly because the stones are too large , and surgery is also an advantage that the stones can usually remove completely . Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy and stone surgery , years of clinical observation: kidney stones after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy , the recurrence rate was 98% above the same time damage the kidney function , the mechanism is the formation of kidney stones naturally no sharp edge , by after the rubble caused by the sharp edge of many small pieces , pierce it is difficult to rule out the kidney [ renal vascular puncture if it is likely to cause renal atrophy shrink ] , so the high recurrence rate of gravel , causing kidney atrophy shrinking , many cases of uremia .