Tests Done to Kidney Stones

The main cause of the kidney stones is diet. It is caused by too much intake of the related elements, which causes the stones in the diet. While what tests should be done to the kidney stones?

1. X-ray examination: X-rat examination is an important method to diagnose the kidneys and the ureteral calculus. About more than 95% lithangiuria can be developed to be the X-ray plain. Supplemented by the excretory or retrograde pelvis ureter radiography, it can be seen wether there are obstruction or the degree of the obstruction in the part of the stone. It can confirm the therapeutic schedule by ensure whether it does good to the split renal function, distinguishing the calcification shadow coming from the outside urinary tract and eliminating other lesions of the upper urinary tract. After the treatment, the size of the stones part, comparison of the number and so on, all have important values.

2. Laboratory examination: There are red blood cells, hemameba or crytalluria pH in the urine routine inspection. And with oxalate and urate stone patients, it is usually acidity. Phosphate stones are usually major pyocytes in the urine in the alkaline co-infection. If the infection is relatively severe, we can see the rise of the total white blood cells and the neutrophilic granulocyte in the blood routine examination.

3. Other examinations: B ultrasonic can find intense light spots or echogenic masses in the part of the stones. We can find liquid level period of isotopes with the merger of hydronephrosis. It can be seen that the side of the urinary tract is obstruction type graphics in the renogram examinations. CT Scan is not perceptually intuit to X plain film and urography, and it is expensive, thus it’s not a routine inspection generally. Retrograde pyelography can show the definite part of the stones.

I hope the above methods of tests could help you.