Kidney Stones: Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment

Stones is due to the colloidal crystal body metabolic imbalance caused by infection, nutritional and metabolic disorders, urinary tract foreign bodies, urinary stasis and geography and climate and other factors. The stones are urinary stones is one of Urology common, according to where the different parts can be divided into kidney stones, ureteral stones, bladder stones and so on.
Kidney stones occur in middle age, more men than women.

Performance

1 pain: mostly in the upper abdomen or kidney area. Larger stones oppression local friction or cause hydronephrosis, can lead pain or pure pain, smaller stones cause colic when moving within the pelvis or calyces.
2, hematuria: often microscopic hematuria, hematuria may be more obvious after colic.
3, Other: infection and can significantly pyuria, stones cause hydronephrosis, palpable enlargement of the kidney, bilateral renal pelvis stones at the outlet obstruction can cause anuria or renal insufficiency.

Diagnosis is based on

1, occurred in stone endemic areas, while if significant renal colic and microscopic hematuria can be sure the diagnosis.
2, urinary tract X-ray showed positive kidney stones shadow area.
3, urography display stones shadow.
4, ultrasound examination revealed kidney area stones.

Current treatment

General treatment includes comprehensive measures, the cause of treatment, extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy, endoscopic stone removal, dissolution therapy, surgery, medicine treatment and prey therapy.


Suffering from kidney stones, bring patients life, economic and spiritual inconvenience, so we should actively prevent kidney stones from daily habits, eating habits and exercise to start.