A kidney stone becomes a serious problem when it travels through the urinary tract and gets stuck in the urethra, the final and narrowest pathway through which urine is excreted. While many kidney ...

A magnetic device may be able to remove kidney stones more efficiently than standard approaches, avoiding the need for repeated surgical procedures. Kidney stones occur when minerals in urine ...

Kidney stones are painful enough on their own, but when they develop during pregnancy, treatment becomes a lot more complicated. Doctors can't just use the same scans and medication, as the safety of ...

Removal of small, asymptomatic kidney stones during surgery to remove ureteral or contralateral stones resulted in less relapse than nonremoval and in similar numbers of subsequent emergency ...

Dr. Aaron Potretske performs ureteroscopy to remove kidney stones. "Over the last several years, we have worked increasingly to make surgery even less invasive," Dr. Potretzke says. He performs ...