About Kidney Stones

Your first diagnosis of the kidney stones arises frequently; if you see your doctor or go to an emergency room because you are feel the large pain. Your doctor or an urgency medicine specialist can place some questions on your medical history and physical examination before they examine treatment to suggest. After you lead a stone, your doctor can give you to find the one other examination out whether you are probable, to have more kidney stones in the future.

Your doctor can accomplish any of the following tests in order to diagnose the kidney stones, in order to help to determine kidney stones determining sees, where they are located, and whether they can cause or cause damage of the urine-separating surface.

• A Scan of the computation tomography non-contrast spiral (CT) is the preferential test for kidney stones. It is a CT scan the ureter and the kidneys, but the scanner moves into a circle, while you move by the machine. This test takes half as long as a standard CT scan for better pictures of the kidneys and other organs supplies, and provide different angle of the organs.
• An intravenous pyelogram (IVP) is an X-ray examination, which use to determine the position, size and shape of the urinary tract, ureters and the kidneys. IVP procedure is to inject a dye called contrast material into your vein in your upper arm. Then, a numbers of X-ray photographs are taken in intervals. But in some case a non-contrast spiral CT can replace this test as the reference test.
• In other case, when an IVP did not succeed to provide a proper diagnosis, other similar test called Retrograde Pyelogram may be used. The differences between this test to an IVP test is, the dye is injected through a tube that will carry your urine flow out from your urethra, rather than injected to your upper arm.
• Urinalysis and urine cultures which examine your urine. A Urinalysis measures some different components of the urine, including its acidity (pH) and whether it contains crystals. A urine culture examines infection (UTI) for a urine-separating surface.
• An Abdominal X-ray (KUB) gives an illustration of the kidneys, the tubes that linking kidneys to the bladder. It can examine for the cause the pain and mark a kidney stone. You might be suggested to take this test for some weeks after passing kidney stones for a guarantee that the kidney stone is really gone and bring no damage to your system.
• An ultrasound testing for the kidneys also known as ultra-sonogram used reflected acoustic waves, in order to produce an illustration of the kidneys. It is the preferential test for pregnant women.

Compile and re-written based on article by Paul Lehnert
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