Kidney stones and their long impacts

Faridabad, XXth March 2022: Kidney stones are a widespread ailment, which may be attributed to climate and water-related causes. Patients with kidney stones usually go through severe pain and vomiting. Because these stones are fairly common occurrences in society, so are their home remedies and free advice from neighbours and friends. Patients take over-the-counter analgesics and home remedies, which would usually relieve them of their symptoms, but they don’t help in permanent cure.

Also, over last two years due to the pandemic patients were reluctant for any surgical intervention and managed the ailment with home remedies leading to long-term complications of stones.

Dr. Anup Gulati, Director, Department of Urology and Kidney Transplant, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Faridabad shares insights on the harmful hazards of kidney stones:

Kidney stones are hazardous, as the patients are left with permanent damage to their ureters and kidney. They come to the urologists with detected knocked-out kidneys or damaged hydronephrotic kidneys and strictured ureters. It should not surprise that some have permanent loss of both the kidneys and then they land up for dialysis.

Diabetic patients present with severe sepsis due to kidney outlet obstruction and require urgent intervention to save their kidneys and their lives.

Some patients have long-standing obstructing stones in the ureters which lead to permanent loss of kidney function due to backpressure charges. We see many patients with forgotten stones. Last week, we had two such patients for whom Laparoscopic nephrectomy (Kidney removal) was done due to non-functioning kidney. One of these patients had a large hydronephrotic kidney occupying the entire abdomen and displacing the abdominal organs.

Treatment and technological advancements

Treatment of kidney stone in Fortis Escorts Hospital, Faridabad is minimally invasive, painless laser treatment with no incision. It is a one-day hospital stay with zero loss of work or daily routine change. We at Fortis Escorts Faridabad have the best available expertise, urologist, lasers and telescopes for stone surgeries viz Retrograde intrarenal surgery (RIRS),Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy (PCNL), (Extracorporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy) ESWL, Ureteroscopy (URS).

Awareness about the disease and its diagnosis remains shockingly awareness about the disease and its diagnosis remains shockingly awareness about the disease and its diagnosis remains shockingly.

About Fortis Healthcare Limited

Fortis Healthcare Limited – an IHH Healthcare Berhad Company – is a leading integrated healthcare services provider in India. It is one of the largest healthcare organizations in the country with 36 healthcare facilities (including projects under development), 4000 operational beds and over 400 diagnostics centres (including JVs). Fortis is present in India, United Arab Emirates (UAE) & Sri Lanka. The Company is listed on the BSE Ltd and National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. It draws strength from its partnership with global major and parent company, IHH, to build upon its culture of world-class patient care and superlative clinical excellence. Fortis employs 23,000 people (including SRL) who share its vision of becoming the world’s most trusted healthcare network. Fortis offers a full spectrum of integrated healthcare services ranging from clinics to quaternary care facilities and a wide range of ancillary services.”

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