Ureteroscopy is a commonly used treatment involving the use of an instrument called ureteroscope (a fibre-optic and small sized instrument). The best part with this treatment is that there are no incisions caused to the patient who is given general anesthesia for the surgery. The stones can be removed by either grasping them if small sized or firstly breaking them into small pieces and then performing the laser surgery kidney stones with flexible or rigid ureteroscope. There remains a risk of heavy blood loss and infection during kidney stone treatment with laser or ureteroscopy.

You should think of laser surgery kidney stones if the following symptoms of kidney stones persist. The symptoms will be clearly identifiable when the stones are large enough to block the passage of urine through the urinary bladder. The commonly complained symptoms include pain centered in the flank and may move toward the front abdomen or to the groin area. In case of acute situation the patient can suffer from sensations of nausea and actual vomiting. Hematuria can also surface in acute cases. If a person is diabetic then he can also suffer from fever due to inability to pass infected urine.

WHEN DO THE CHANCES OF STONE FORMATION DEVELOP?

There is high risk of stone formation if:

• One does not consume sufficient fluids per day.
• If one consumes poor diet or diet rich in protein content leading to high acid content in the body.
• Diet rich in salt content is another risk factor.
• When the disease onsets, high consumption of oxalate-rich foods pose further risk to the patient. Examples of such food are chocolates, leafy green vegetables, nuts, caffeine.
• Obesity
• Hereditary factors
• Chronic diarrhoea
• Crohn's disease
• Gastric bypass surgery
• High stress levels