JOIN US'Flexible' easing out of kidney stones
This was informed to the media on Thursday by hospital’s administration officer Dr K R Kamath.
“Flexible uretero renoscope and holmium- pulsed laser’ is the latest technology acquired by the hospital at a cost of ` 30 lakh, becoming second hospital in the city with the facility”, Kamath added.
By opting for the latest in the realm, the hospital offers to treat such cases at the subsidised rates in the range of ` 35,000 to ` 40,000. It is one third of the expenditure incurred in the super-speciality hospitals, Kamath said.
Explaining about its features consultant urologist Dr Prakash K Prabhu said as is the name, it’s a flexible device that minimises the risk involved in blasting the stones in kidneys.
Currently the stones are being blasted by using lithotripsy machines like ballistic (high pressure air) Extra Corporeal Shock Wave Lithotripsy (ESWL) and also laser lithotripsy.
In the case of ballistic that involves risk, the device that wasn’t so flexible had to be inserted through the rigid parts in the human body to reach the stone/s. The new device eases the strenuous efforts turning either sides without affecting the organs, the doctor claimed. It can blast a minimum of six mm size stone to maximum of one cm.
On the prevalence rate of such cases, the doctor said 80 per cent of the people comprising both rural and urban areas suffer from stone related problems.
But only a few among them are the fit cases for surgery. He attributed it to change in dietary pattern and also less intake of water.
Managing Trustee of BSMS Trust Vinod Rao, treasurer Arun Shenoy were present.