EndoTheia announced today that it completed the first-in-human clinical trial for its FlexStone basket, a steerable kidney ...

Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or cause ...

They performed the surgery to remove the stones which resembled ... an increased white blood cell count. Doctors say kidney stones can be caused by various factors, including genetic ...

EndoTheia, Inc., a leader in innovative surgical technology, is pleased to announce the successful completion of the first-in-human clinical trial for the FlexStone™ Basket, the first-ever ...

“For patients in the early stages of having kidney stones, it’s possible to remove them while preserving the kidney,” says Guoxi Zhang, vice-president and a key member of kidney disease ...

Coonge's kidney stone measured 13.37cm (5.26 inches) long, compared to an average kidney which is about 10cm to 12cm long. "The removal of the world's largest and heaviest kidney stone through a ...

Gallstones are generally larger than kidney stones and the size if these stones is up to 5 cm. These stones may require surgical removal, and the procedure is called cholecystectomy.” ...

Dr Gopal claimed the patient had a large 29 mm kidney stone and due to excessive bleeding during the operation there was a life-threatening situation which required removal of right kidney.

"This patient had contracted a bad infection that was not responding to antibiotics, and the kidney's massive size was causing the patient breathing difficulties, so we had no choice but to remove ...

Another minimally invasive option is percutaneous surgery, which may be recommended to remove very large kidney stones. "So we make a small incision, usually about the width of a finger ...