Category: Kidney stone

Comprehensive articles on kidney stone prevention, diagnosis, and treatment — ESWL, ureteroscopy, medical management, and patient guides from Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, board-certified urologist at Bangkok Hospital Headquarters.

DJ Stent / Ureteral Stent: Indications, Side Effects, and Care

Ureteral stent (double-J) — clinical indications, benefits, and complications of internal urinary drainage | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Ureteral stent is a very useful surgical instrument in Endoscopic Urologic surgery. My patients always asked questions on this thing “what was that?” Is it dangerous to do so? What will cause the side effects during retaining the ureteral stent? This topic I will encoding all your questions. Ureteral stent or “Double-J stent” is a […]

Why kidney stone happens?

How kidney stones form — supersaturation, crystallization, and metabolic risk factors explained | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Kidney stone issue is a very common problem at my urology office. After reviewing the literatures on the incidence of kidney stone, there was a proportion for at least 10% of US and European population that facing this problem one time in their whole lifetime. But when I try to get more research here, I […]

Do all kidney stones will need therapeutics?

Kidney stone therapy — when conservative management is sufficient and when intervention is needed | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Another simplicity consulting in my office which is came from the health checkup program, it was a kidney stone finding coincidently. The most common imaging modality offered in health checkups is ultrasonography – easy to perform, affordable, and radiation-free. But when goes deeper at the performance, ultrasonography is just a screening tool. Limitations of ultrasonography […]

Endoscopic holmium laser kidney stone surgery

Endoscopic holmium laser lithotripsy — minimally invasive surgery for kidney and ureteric stones | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

The first reports of endoscopic laser surgery for urinary tract stones were published by German and British researchers in 1988, with an impressive success rate of around 84%. The main limitation at the time was stone retropulsion – the stone being pushed back into the kidney by the laser’s energy before it could be fragmented. […]

8 good habits for the prevention of kidney stones formation

Kidney stone prevention — eight evidence-based daily habits to reduce stone recurrence risk | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Kidney stones are a top urological issue. Many patients come to see me after suffering from stone pain or complications. When I review their lifestyle and daily habits, there are clear risk factors that could have been prevented. Here are 8 evidence-based habits to minimize kidney stone risk. 8 habits to prevent kidney stones Any […]

Kidney stone treatment with Non-Invasive 4th Generation ESWL.

Kidney stone treatment with non-invasive 4th-generation ESWL | Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone, urologist at Bangkok Hospital

Now days, every modern surgeon aims to do every operation as non-invasively as possible. In the past, kidney stones had be done by open surgery, Luckily right now we have several methods to get rid of the stone without any wound or minimizing the wound. ESWL is one option for stone management we are going […]

en_USEnglish
en_USEnglish thไทย bn_BDবাংলা ja日本語 my_MMဗမာစာ arالعربية kmភាសាខ្មែរ fr_FRFrançais zh_CN简体中文 ru_RUРусский ko_KR한국어 de_DEDeutsch it_ITItaliano