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Have Echogenic Focus In Upper Middle Calyx Of Right Kidney. Continuous Pain. Advice?
Hi Doctor, There is an Echogenic focus of size 4.7mm in the upper middle Calyx of Right Kidney with Posterior acoustic shadow. I am having pain continuously for the last few months. Sometimes pain is less and sometimes it is more. Am I suffering some kind of diseases and what it is? Is this is Kidney Stone or there is any kind of swelling on kidney or instatine? Please advice me.
Sat, 8 Jun 2013
Hello user
According to your history, there is echogenic focus on your right kidney, and most often it is due to kidney stones and that is the reason for the pain you are getting since one month.
The most important advice i want to give you is to drink plenty of fluids !!
There are some drugs available which can dissolve kidney stones, and prevent further increase in size of stones, when taken for long time, but it depends on the size of stone and location of stone in the kidney.
In your case, the size is more so it may require lithotripsy. It is painless procedure which requires multiple sittings on a urology clinic, in which very small shock waves (ultrasonic) are given externally using a lithotripsy machine.
The machine will break the stones into multiple pieces which will coming out with the urine, and doctor will advice you some pain killers and plenty of fluids to drink.
take care
regards
Dr Hari Om Chandrakar
MBBS
According to your history, there is echogenic focus on your right kidney, and most often it is due to kidney stones and that is the reason for the pain you are getting since one month.
The most important advice i want to give you is to drink plenty of fluids !!
There are some drugs available which can dissolve kidney stones, and prevent further increase in size of stones, when taken for long time, but it depends on the size of stone and location of stone in the kidney.
In your case, the size is more so it may require lithotripsy. It is painless procedure which requires multiple sittings on a urology clinic, in which very small shock waves (ultrasonic) are given externally using a lithotripsy machine.
The machine will break the stones into multiple pieces which will coming out with the urine, and doctor will advice you some pain killers and plenty of fluids to drink.
take care
regards
Dr Hari Om Chandrakar
MBBS
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