Is painless removal of kidney stone possible ? without a surgery ? Yes with Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy !
Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy (URSL) Everyone has heard about kidney stone and the severe pain associated with it. One wishes to get rid of these stones without surgery, without hospital stay, without any pain and normal routine life. Today, surgeons can fulfil this wish of patients with kidney stone with latest treatment - Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy. Ureteroscopic Lithotripsy is an invasive procedure where an instrument called ureteroscope is inserted through the urethra to urinary bladder to ureter to get a view of related organ and following the confirmation of presence of stone, laser or high frequency waves are used to fragment the stone and remove them. Ureteroscope is a long and flexible tube having light and camera at the distal end. The fragmentation of stone is called lithotripsy. The small fragments of the stone get flushed or excreted along with urine. Andpatients who have narrow ureter, grasping device is used for removing the fragments. In case any injury has been sustai