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Kidney stone sizes and their health risks: What you need to know, and what size of kidney stone requires surgery?
Kidney stones are hard deposits made of minerals and salts that form inside the kidneys when urine becomes concentrated. Depending on their size and location, kidney stones can pass unnoticed or cause ...
Pakistan has successfully performed its first “Non-Touch” Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS) for kidney stones, marking a ...
What causes kidney stones, how can you prevent them, and when is surgery necessary? Kidney stones are among the most common ...
Fluoroscopy-free RIRS is successful in some cases, but fluoroscopy should remain available for unexpected intraoperative challenges. In a randomized controlled trial, a fluoroscopy-free technique for ...
In older children and adolescents, URS provides similar stone clearance to PCNL, but postoperative relief is not better. Ureteroscopy (URS) is as effective as percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL) for ...
A magnetic device may be able to remove kidney stones more efficiently than standard approaches, avoiding the need for repeated surgical procedures. Kidney stones occur when minerals in urine ...
A 22-year-old medical student was shocked to learn during an in-class ultrasound demonstration that there was a large kidney ...
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