When people develop a kidney stone that is painful enough to require removal, imaging tests often reveal that they harbor smaller, asymptomatic stones, too. And doctors know there is a high ...

Most small kidney stones can pass on their own. However, kidney stones that are too large to pass on their own or that cause bleeding, kidney damage or ongoing urinary tract infections, may ...

Kidney Stone Removal. When kidney stones are not obstructing the kidney, causing symptoms, or presenting any risk of harm, monitoring them is often the best approach. However, when a stone is blocking ...

Kidney stones are common, affecting about 10% of people at some point, according to the National Kidney Foundation. Often, a stone can be passed in the urine without too much agony.

Preoperative administration of tamsulosin improves successful placement of large ureteral access sheaths for kidney stone removal, according to a poster presented at the American Urological ...

Madurai: Doctors at Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre (MMHRC), Madurai, successfully removed two large kidney stones from a 62-year-old w.