(Correspondent Wang Ye Wang Dongxue) Some people say that "the disease of stones is really terrible when it hurts.", this sentence is not exaggerated at all. In addition to the tolerable blunt pain in the waist when some kidney stones occur, most patients have unbearable pain, inability to walk, nausea and vomiting when most ureteral stones occur, and they often occur in the middle of the night, especially toss people.
So, what should I do if I have urinary stones?
In general, stones smaller than 0.4 cm in diameter have a 90% chance of being able to drain on their own. Stones larger than 0.5 cm in diameter require medical intervention. Currently, the preferred treatment for urinary stones is extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy therapy.
But many patients are curious, what exactly is the shock wave? How does it break stones in the body?
Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy treatment can break stones in the body across the skin and tissues without damaging the body. A shock wave, as the name suggests, is a wave that is generated in a water bladder on a lithotripter and is focused on the stone by precise reflection, breaking the stone. Because the difference in acoustic resistance between water and human soft tissues is not large, the shock wave generated in the water enters the body through the skin and penetrates the soft tissue organs, the energy is not significantly attenuated; and the acoustic resistance between the stone and the soft tissue of the human body is very different, when the shock wave is transmitted to the stone, the energy will be released in large quantities, thereby breaking the stone. Therefore, the miraculous effect of shock waves that cause little damage to the human body but can break stones.
What are the advantages of the DORNIER extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter?
Recently, the newly introduced German DORNIER extracorporeal shock wave crusher introduced by the Fourth Hospital of Harbin City is known as the "gold standard" of shock wave crushing in the world. It has the advantages of no surgery, no anesthesia, light pain, few complications, short treatment time, small tissue damage, good stone crushing effect, rapid stone removal, and fast body recovery. It adopts b-ultrasound and X-ray dual positioning system, accurate positioning, with high-performance gravel images, to ensure that stones are not missed, is currently the world's deepest treatment depth of the machine. The unique dual-pulse therapy system of the device is like a fighter to "strafe" its target many times, hitting the stone "falling flowers and flowing water", which can gradually crush the large stones into fine particles, which is conducive to the discharge of stones and avoids ureteral obstruction and damage. It is suitable for elderly patients, excessive obesity and emaciated special groups.
Founded in 1989, the Department of Lithotripsy of Harbin Fourth Hospital is the earliest extracorporeal shockwave treatment center in the province, and in 2008, the extracorporeal lithotripsy technology was rated as a special technology with medical characteristics in Harbin. The Department of Lithotripsy has focused on the treatment of urinary stones for more than 30 years, and has jointly created a collective internal and external lithotripsy, meridian stone removal, stone component analysis, and prevention of recurrence as one of the urinary stone treatment and rehabilitation system, which has been recognized and praised by the majority of patients and the same industry. The introduction of the DORNIER extracorporeal shock wave lithotripter has added to the treatment of urinary stones in the Fourth Hospital of Harbin City, and will also bring a better medical experience to patients.
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