Kidney stones
How do we treat kidney stones?
How do we treat kidney stones?
In brief
It depends on the stone's size, where it sits, and how you feel. Small stones often pass with fluids, pain control, and a medicine that relaxes the ureter.
What it involves
A stone that is large or lodged can often be broken into pieces from outside the body with shock wave lithotripsy. Or with ureteroscopy, where a thin scope and laser reach the stone with no cuts. A very large stone may call for a small keyhole procedure through the back. Most stone procedures are outpatient.
Time to come in?
Get checked if pain lasts more than a few days, keeps coming back, or a scan shows a stone that hasn't moved.
For our Cobb County patients
Our urologists welcome Cobb residents to the Marietta Clinic & Surgery Center, 1371 Church Street Extension NW. Should your plan include a procedure, you'll have it in this same Marietta building.
Request a visit at Advanced Urology to go over your options.