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Shock waves to break up kidney stones

One means of addressing either kidney stones or urinary tract, bladder or ureters, the work on fragmentation.

There are several remedies to the fragmentation of boulders, including the use of shock waves from outside the body through the skin to the pebble Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, or be shortened b (ESWL).

And dealing with kidney stones, for the removal of the body, because it may cause microbial infections or bleeding or block in the course of kidney or urinary tract parts.

Before the operation, the patient's physician requests the lack drinking water or eating for several hours. As requested, for a few days before the operation, not to deal with any drugs affecting blood clotting, such as aspirin or Albrovin or Allwarvrin.

During the operation the patient is lying on a pillow of water, to be directed through those high-energy sound waves to penetrate the skin and reach the pebble. Is precisely to locate the pebble, the X-rays.

Is usually a sense of one of those light waves. The waves, once a collision Balhsap solid, on the fragmentation.

And then turn the large boulders, the outstanding and difficult exit voluntarily, gestures to facilitate the dirt with his urine if too much of drinking water and increase the movement of walking. It may take between 4 to 8 weeks to get the whole girl, kidney stones.

The process takes between 45 to 60 minutes. It does not take the need to stay overnight in the hospital after the operation.

Typically, the patient can leave the hospital within a few hours, to rest at home for two days before they can return to work.

According to what he sees the doctor, depending on the patient's data, the advice to take up the antibiotic or the quality of painkillers or other drugs in the period after the fragmentation of boulders.

After eight weeks, will be taking pictures of the X-kidney, to show the development of Pebble. May be needed a few sessions of therapy to rid the body of boulders.

Despite the success of this method to relieve many patients resort to surgical solution for the eradication of kidney stones, but some types of kidney stone fragmentation and can not be tackled in this way, the fragmentation of boulders may require either a laser directly by entering the bladder through the urethra, or to enter to the kidney through the skin and access to the pebble itself.