These waves go through your skin and break up your stone into tiny pieces. The doctor might put a tube called a stent into your ureter, a tube connecting your kidney to your bladder that urine ...

At University of Utah Health, our urologists are highly trained and experienced in a full range of surgical procedures for kidney stone removal, in addition to non-surgical care. We also have the ...

Kidney stones are hard objects made from chemicals ... your doctor can give you treatments to break up the stones, install a stent to make the ureter temporarily wider for easier passage, or ...

We may place a temporary plastic stent or other tube to help your kidney ... After leaving your kidney, the stone travels through a tube called the ureter on the way to your bladder. There are several ...

Some kidney stones are small enough that you’ll ... Doctors may also insert a stent in the ureter to help with swelling and so that patients can urinate. For nephrostolithotomy or ...

Promising technology developed by a University Hospitals doctor that looks to decrease discomfort in kidney stone patients achieved a major milestone in the path toward mass commercialization with its ...

After the doctor has broken the stone into tiny pieces, they can remove it from the ureter. In most cases, a surgeon will also place a stent to ensure that the kidney properly drains urine after ...

Stent omission after ureteroscopy, even with the use of a ureteral access sheath ... an associate professor of Urology at the Comprehensive Kidney Stone Center, University of California San ...

Ureteral stones are hard mineral masses that develop in the kidneys and then move into the ureter. They are known for causing ...

A stent was placed in his kidney to remove left ureteric stone three years ago. The stent was supposed to be removed two to three weeks after the surgery. However, it was forgotten. A stone formed ...

I had a CT scan that showed a 6mm kidney stone stuck high up in my ureter, I have two more stones in the same kidney roughly the same size They inserted a stent on Monday to ensure the kidney drains.