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Thursday, March 13, 2008

kidney stones, the boulder in water

Kidney stones are a common urological problem encountered. the kidney stones can lead to a rather interesting course of complete silence with sudden symptoms usually severe excruciating pain (thought to be more severe than child berth!), nausea and vomiting. The kidney stones can pass spontaneously from kidney into the bladder leading resolution of pain but there is an inverse relation between the stone size and it's chance of being passed spontaneously.
the stone formation in the kidneys is a complex process and in simplest terms it can be due to increased concentration of constituents to an extent where they start sedimenting thus laying the foundation of stone formation or the constituent cannot be dissolved in the urine due to any reason and settles down. some stones can be seen on x-ray while other can't.
ways to treat the stones can be divided to non oprative and operative means.

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