Patients experience debilitating pain when kidney stones become stuck in the urinary tract. A relatively new ultrasound probe procedure has the highest success rate for breaking down kidney stones ...

Kidney stones, those painful crystalline formations in your urinary system, might soon be defeated by an innovative medical technique combining two ultrasound technologies. This approach ...

In adults, a ≥10 mm difference in the lengths of the right and left kidneys on ultrasound is considered predictive of renal pathology. Khazaei et al. sought to determine a cutoff point at which ...

Kidney stones (called renal calculi ... Cases like these are often discovered incidentally during an abdominal X-ray or ultrasound. Diarrhea can also sometimes occur with a kidney infection ...

Stents may also relieve acute pain from a stone, enable any infection to drain, and allow antibiotic treatment before surgery. Shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) is a procedure that uses ultrasound energy ...

The kidney stone surgery that we perform depends on the nature and location of your stone, your health, and other factors. Some of the most common procedures that we perform at U of U Health range ...

Ultrasound waves have multiple uses including: detecting medical conditions, treating kidney stones and cleaning delicate objects. We detect sounds because inside our ears we have parts that work ...

In the first two of these applications, the vibrations caused by the ultrasound shake apart the dirt or kidney stones, breaking them up. The principle is the same as the opera singer's trick ...