Older patients are more likely to have complications after kidney stone surgery when the procedure takes longer than about 95 minutes, a study shows.

From a grain of sand to a golf ball, kidney stones come in different sizes. Every size comes with certain complications. Smaller ones are usually not treated as a ‘threat’, because they pass on their ...

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

Have you had your water today? Well, you should, because your kidneys need it. About 10% of people will get kidney stones at some point in their lives. More than half a million people every year are ...

Alberto Budía, chief of urology at La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital, Valencia, Spain, and a member of the board of directors of the Spanish Association of Urology (AEU) reviewed the ...

Health Chosun summarized the case of a woman in her 30s who, after surgery for an approximately 4cm kidney stone, suffered massive bleeding and, as diagnosis and treatment were delayed, died of ...

During a procedure known as laser lithotripsy, urologists use a small, video-guided laser to blast painful, potentially damaging kidney stones to smithereens. It’s better for the patient if urologists ...

Fat enters the blood in most thighbone fractures but rarely causes illness. A finger-injury case adds to the evidence that obesity raises the risk. His Heart Raced to 200 Beats Whenever He Lay Flat or ...

A kidney stone that does not hurt can seem like good news. After all, severe pain is one of the symptoms most people ...

Roen Surgical, a surgical robot platform company, said it has completed an approval change from the Ministry of Food and Drug ...

Dr. Aaron Potretske performs ureteroscopy to remove kidney stones. "Over the last several years, we have worked increasingly to make surgery even less invasive," Dr. Potretzke says. He performs ...