History: The first every recorded kidney stones were found by Archeologist E. Smith, where he "found a bladder stone from a 4500-5000 year old mummy in El Amrah, Egypt"(KidneyStoners.org). The earliest findings of treatments for stones were ancient Egyptian medical writings from 1500 B.C. The first surgery to treat stones took place in the 8th century "by an ancient Indian surgeon named Sushruta"(KidneyStoners.org). "In the 4th century B.C., Hippocrates specifically mentioned stones in his Hipprocratic Oath"(KidneyStoners.org). During the middle ages "Lithotomist" surgeons traveled around Europe with a table called a "lithotomy table" to cut out the stones in their patients bladder. "In 1976, the first percutaneous stone surgery was performed by Fernstrom and Johansson"(KidneyStoners.org). ESWL or shockwave lithotripsy was developed by a company Dornier and in 1980 it was first used on a human patient. The first Ureteroscopy was described in 1912 by Hugh Hampton Young, "but the first ureteroscopic stone surgery did not occur until 1981"(Kidney Stoners.org).
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Symptoms:
A kidney stone may not cause symptoms until it moves around within your kidney or passes into your ureter.
Quality of Life:
People with kidney stones can live totally normal lives, but while they have the stone, they will experience pain and discomfort. Passing the stone is normally a very painful process. |
Treatments:
Small stones:
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Diagnosis:
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